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If you're a music fan, you probably don't care about this. But if you're not one of Facebook's chosen music partners, it's cold on the outside. Which is the case for Cole Flournoy, the entrepreneur behind LetsListen who's pointing to Facebook+Spotify as an overly-cozy, unfairly insider, and downright anti-competitive alliance - especially after the launch of 'Listen With Me'.
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Movies based on video games are horrible. Now Hollywood wants to make one based on Shadow of the Colossus. Here's a bit of helpful advice: Use the game's soundtrack. 
Disney, Pixar's BRAVE official website has a looping bit of music that certainly sounds like it could have come from the creative mind of PATRICK DOYLE. It's big. It's epic. It's celtic.
Composing the music for "Chernobyl Diaries" gave Diego Stocco the opportunity to experiment with new playing techniques on his custom built instruments, as well as hybrid techniques on electric bass, acoustic and electric guitar, zithers and percussions.…... 
American composer Philip Glass turned 75 in January. To honor his long career and cavalcade of compositions, Spoleto Festival USA is mounting the first staged production of his opera “Kepler” in the U.S. Have you been so immersed in the game that you didn't have time to read the news that it's soundtrack has been officially released on iTunes?
It's ok, but the DIABLO III soundtrack is out on iTunes for $11.99. Songs start at just $1.29.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Timberlake will compose the soundtrack and serve as music supervisor for the upcoming film THE DEVIL IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA. 
By Olivia Solon, Wired UKSonic artist and programmer Daniel Jones and composer Peter Gregson have joined forces with Britten Sinfonia orches... 
MTV gave up on music ages ago, and only a handful of young bands make money selling records. Has music just become a 'soundtrack' to other activities? Read this blog post by Steve Guttenberg on The Audiophiliac. 
Available July 10, 2012 Howard Shore began writing the score for the massive multiplayer online role-paying game, Soul of the Ultimate Nation (SUN) in the summer of 2004. In November of that year, Shore was in Moscow conducting The Lord of the Rings Symphony at the Kremlin with the National Philharmonic of Russia and Victor Popov’s Academy of Choral Arts. Following the Moscow concerts he traveled with the orchestra and chorus for another three concerts in Tokyo.
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Judging by the track order, this looks to be identical to the original Sony release back in 2006.
With the slightest movement of the second finger on her left hand, Imogen Heap can conjure the sound of an entire orchestral brass section. A twitch of her left thumb can solicit a complicated drum rhythm, while a flick of her middle finger will summon a guitar riff.
The Amon Tobin boxset is a strictly limited edition release and will come in the form of a beautiful high quality bolt fastened mechanical 'press'. Packed inside are 6 x 10" vinyl, 7 x CD, 2 x DVD and several posters. Most of the material is unreleased, almost none of it has ever been available on a physical format before...
Pre-Order here: http://ninjatune.net/release/amon-tobin/amon-tobin
Read Drowned in Sound's review: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17019/reviews/4144949?ticker First piece I have shared in awhile due to being under NDAs and longer term gigs. I love to write in this style and hope to do more of it in the future! 
The record label is releasing a 3CD box set of the score by the legendary Jerry Goldsmith... |
2012 Summer Preview. Michael Coleman (Soundworks Collection) and Erik Davis (Cinematic Sound) join us to peer into this Summer's offerings of films and film scores. We also talk about Ridley Scott's comments regarding a BLADE RUNNER sequel, La La Land Records release of STARHAWK (Christopher Lennertz) and SORCERY (Mark Mancina), and what Dobly Atmos might hold for our ears in the near future.
http://tracksounds.blogspot.com/2012/05/soundcast-ep-48-i-still-know-what-your.html 
For the truly eager - Hans Zimmers soundtrack for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Ammy says it will be released on July 17, 2012.
The music middlemen have another reason to be nervous. Rdio, the music subscription service whose redesign we applauded at SXSW, plans to pay recording artists who drive fans to its subscription service. “They’re basically offering a bounty for everybody you bring them,” said an anonymous Rdio source, according to Billboard’s report. Another said they were thinking $10 per subscriber would be a good number.
http://evolver.fm/2012/05/24/rdio-wants-to-pay-artists-for-turning-fans-into-subscribers 
Eyrie is an application for the Nokia N9 and N950 phones that can find out information about music that’s playing nearby. It does this by making use of the EchoPrint algorithm to extract musical features from whatever you’re currently hearing. This is then used to find out the name of the artist and track from The EchoNest. Currently the database of songs accessible via EchoPrint fingerprints is a bit small, but it has the advantage of being an open database that anyone can submit fingerprint information to (although at the moment the process for adding new fingerprints isn’t very clear).
Recording Trevor Rabin's score to Renny Harlin's "5 Days of War" at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Gordon Goodwin conducts. 
Nokia Mix Radio: Revealing the hidden side of John Williams, Ennio Morricone ...NokNok.tvAlso a brilliant track in Jurassic Park by John Williams. It's a really beautiful, subtle track. Again, you're listening to it and thinking: “What is this? The new SKYFALL teaser trailer is out and the very end seems to tease a very familiar 4-note motif before exploding into a barrage of brass and percussion. It's early days and not the style he is known for, but could it tease Thomas Newman's direction for his original score? Musical ping pong and hacked lightsabers: How the first Music Tech Fest explored the future of sound
The first Music Tech Fest took place through the end of last week and part of the weekend at Ravensbourne College in London. Check out this very cool prequel to the video game, TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON FUTURE SOLDIER.
Composer Daniel Pemberton (right, the same who brought you Little Big Planet), delivers a menacing and compelling score for the webisode.
Official Network: http://www.ghostrecon.com/network Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ghostrecon Twitter: http://twitter.com/GhostRecon Tom Clancy's Gh... 
Some say the next killer app is sound and a new Flipboard update out today offers more news and updates you can listen to instead of read. Read this blog post by Jason Parker on iPhone Atlas. 
Composer Sascha Dikiciyan and Jeremy Meyers (Deeper Context) join the SoundCast crew to react to the "early" release of Marc Streintenfeld and Harry Gregson-Williams' score for PROMETHEUS on iTunes. The episode 0 release of TRON: UPRISING doesn't escape their critical gaze as well. "What Have You Been Listening To?" is back and finally, the crew discusses "SOUNDTRACKING: BEST PRACTICES" and dive into what sites, apps and tools they use to enjoy their soundtracks. 
May 17th is Trent Reznor‘s 46th birthday. For those of you who are unaware of Trent’s work, he was the front man for Nine Inch Nails, which makes his Oscar for Best Soundtrack (The Social Network) even more impressive. If none of that matters to you, he also hates Fred Durst. There, now you should care about him. In celebration of his arrival into this twisted world, here are 46 other fun facts about Trent you might not have known about. (via Silverworld) |
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