Film Scoring Project

I heard from Kino International and they would like me to contribute some soundtracks to volume three of their Avant Garde silent movie series. I've had scores on Volume 1 and Volume 2, so I am thrilled to be asked to be part of volume three. I'm not sure what films I'll be scoring yet, but it should be about 45 minutes total with a due date of July 1. Kino usually has pretty quick turnaround times on their projects, but I tend to work better under that sort of pressure.

It's interesting to me how much the technology to score films has changed since my last project with Kino three years ago. Now, even with the basic GarageBand program that comes with the MacBook you can play the video file of the film and play right along very, very simply. When I did my Buster Keaton project in 2001, we used an elaborate system of VCR and computer all rigged together. It wasn't that simple and it didn't always work. Now I can plug my keyboard into the Mac via USB and have a sketch of a score very simply. It's one of those times when you realize that technology is an amazing thing. It really makes some of the traditionally complicated and expensive media like film and CDs pretty readily attainable for anyone.

I can't really prepare until I see the movies I'm given, but I am starting to get into the mindset.

What's most exciting is that I can release the scores on Pimalia and have the release coincide with the release of the DVD. That should be pretty cool.