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Vir2 Fractured Review

I got my hands on Vir2′s Fractured: Prepared Acoustic Guitar sample library a while back and I’ve since been loving its strange and beautiful sounds. Fractured takes a much more esoteric, avant-garde approach to acoustic guitar sampling tha...

Steal Like an Artist

A good friend of mine recently loaned me this excellent (and short) book, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by writer and artist Austin Kleon. In it, Kleon lists the things he wished he’d learned in college, t...

Production Advice

Photo by Thomas Helbig Just found this great blog on recording, mixing and mastering: Ian Shepherd’s Production Advice. Shepherd covers all aspects of achieving great-sounding mixes, from getting the best sounds at source, mixing them effectively...

Two Composer Interviews

First, apologies for being away for so long. I was working on a score for a feature that only seemed to get larger and more complex the closer we got to the deadline. Unfortunately in situations like that, the blog is one of the first things to go (al...

Daily Film Scoring Bits

Photo by Melissa Gruntkosky Here’s a great site offering (as the title so obviously implies) daily bits of film scoring wisdom. The posts are written by Dresden-based composer Robin Hoffmann, who heroically crafts a paragraph for his blog nearly ...

Creating the Best Score for Your (Documentary) Film

Photo by Steve Rhodes I stumbled across this blog post on Documentary.org while wandering the Web. It’s an interview with six film composers about the peculiar art of scoring documentary films. They talk about the idiosyncrasies of the music in d...

Making Things Small

Photo by Brian J. Bruemmer I am happy to announce that I’m now an official writer for SCOREcast. My first post went up today, talking about how to make a cue small. I’ve attached an excerpt below. Enjoy! When it comes to film scoring, size...

Quick Tip: Leave a Hole

Photo by Esther Simpson In the TV series Classic Albums (now available on DVD), Roger Waters talks about the Pink Floyd song “Us and Them.” He says, “I find myself very very often, in my capacity as a producer, having to say to people...

The Myth of Writer’s Block

Photo by Michael Connell I was having dinner with some composer friends a few weeks ago and the subject of writer’s block came up. Mostly, we talked about the fact that we rarely get it. Perhaps because we’re all media composers and seldom ...

Quick Tip: Get to Know Your Gear

Photo by Matt Brock ☼ I was reading a back issue of Sound on Sound last night and I came across this nugget in an article profiling songwriter and producer Alex Da Kid: “Every month or every two months I’ll take another soft synth, and I’ll...