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Hours after recording his score for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in New York Tuesday, composer Alexandre Desplat flew to Los Angeles for two Q&As and screenings...
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Warner Bros uses "Unstoppable" by E.S. Posthumus on their site, but mistakenly credits it to Hans Zimmer.
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Some more vintage electronic French pop to round out the week on Dangerous Minds. Some folk may not know the name Pierre Henry, but they definitely know his music - well they would know his music, were it not for the fact that what they are hearing isn’t actually him. I’m talking of course about the Futurama theme tune, and how it is a blatant rip-off of Henry’s classic ‘Psyche Rock’ from 1967 (more specifically, the Fatboy Slim remix).
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Bastion, Batman: Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Portal 2 go head-to-head in the Best Original Score category at the 2011 Video Game Awards.
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The Guardian are today running a competition for one lucky person to have their own personal soundtrack composed by Bill Ryder-Jones himself.
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While he may have dabbled in a number of genres, told a variety of stories, and balanced big blockbusters with thoughtful dramas, the one constant in the career of Steven Spielberg (Daddy-issue themes aside) has been John Williams. The composer has worked on 25 of the director's films (that includes the upcoming "War Horse" and "The Adventures Of Tintin"), only missing out on "Duel" and "The Color Purple" over their decades-long collaboration. So no shocker here, but Variety confirms that Williams will once again pair up with Spielberg to tackle the score for his dream project "Lincoln."
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The epic race across the country truly comes to life through music. Go inside the studio with Senior Licensed Music Supervisor Cybele Pettus and Composer Bri...
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A selection of videos taken from various times during the recording to the feature film THE AWAKENING starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West and directed by ...
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In a development that most industry observers were expecting, digital music resale service ReDigi received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America demanding among other things that it cease operations, hand over copies of its...
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Following the news that James Newton Howard is scoring the upcoming thriller The Bourne Legacy from earlier this week, Universal Pictures has confirmed to Film...
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SoundWorks Collection presents their video profile of composer Brian Tyler. Including looks at his writing and composing methods, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Terra Nova. |
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Low Tide
With PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END in 2007, it was thought that the franchise had done its “trilogical” duty. True. The film itself was a convoluted mess, but it delivered one of the most exhilarating film score experiences of the year and so, in that sense, the trilogy was concluding on a high note. Well, actually there was one other note on which the film proved successful. Let’s call it nearly 1 billion, worldwide notes. With all those notes in mind, when it was announced that Captain Jack would be back, it probably should have come as little surprise. But where would the franchise go from the end of the world?
Four years later, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES would see the return of Jack Sparrow as well as composer Hans Zimmer. However, director Gore Verbinski would not be returning as the romantic tale of William Turner and Elizabeth Swann had come to an end. Instead, Captain Sparrow would now be the centerpiece of the story and this time director Rob Marshall would be calling the shots. The final result is a film that is more straight-forward than its predecessors, but in fact too much so. This fourth foray into this famous world of Disney lacked much of the grandeur, attention to detail, and fun of the first three. A race for the mystical fountain of youth with the likes of Sparrow, Barbosa, and the infamous Blackbeard would seem to provide a big enough splash easily increased, by a decent original score, into a tidal wave of a film. As it turns out, On Stranger Tides, is further evidence that the tide has been slowly receding since the closing credits of the CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL.
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From gameplay to visuals to music and imagination, BIT.TRIP BEAT is inspired by classic games in every way. Get sucked into a whole new world of sight and sound as you juggle beats and ride the vibe in this modern look at the beginning of it all.
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Hear more of John Powell's original score for HAPPY FEET TWO at the Warner Bros site.
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Listen to Happy Feet Two: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack soundclips by John Powell
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Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim
Cult photographer and filmmaker Todd Selby's latest short is a revealing portrait of performance artist Christine Sun Kim. Deaf from birth, Kim turned to using sound as a medium during an artist residency in Berlin in 2008, and has since developed a practice of lo-fi experimentation that aims to re-appropriate sound by translating it into movement and vision. "It's a lot more interesting to explore a medium that I don't have direct access to and yet has the most direct connection to society at large," says the artist. "Social norms surrounding sound are so deeply ingrained that, in a sense, our identities cannot be complete without it." Selby filmed an exclusive performance from Kim in a Brooklyn studio as the artist played with field recordings of the street sounds of her Chinatown neighborhood, feedback and helium balloons, and made “seismic calligraphy” drawings from ink- and powder-drenched quills, nails and cogs dancing across paper to the vibrations of subwoofers beneath. Working with sound designer Arrow Kleeman, Selby carefully choreographed the film's ambient score to reveal the Orange County native's unique relationship with sound. "Her work deals with reclaiming sound because it's a foreign world to her and one she's not comfortable in," explains Selby. "I wanted the film to act as an artistic conduit for her to tell her story to the world.”
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Composer Steve Burke (Kameo: Elements of Power) joins and Helen San returns to talk Far East favorites from the last decade. Additionally, Steve talks about writing music and recording soundeffects for the Xbox Live avatar menu, the crew hits on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 VS Battlefield 3, Contagion and, yes, Hanna.
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Infinite Dreams, award-winning mobile games publisher has announced the release of the Jelly Defense soundtrack album exclusively on iTunes. This soundtrack collects all of the amazing music from the very popular iOS tower defense game.
Jelly Defense was an instant hit and reached the #1 spot over 80 countries in the App Store strategy games category. This innovative classic turret defense gameplay combined with the intense action and beautiful graphics was valued by mobile industry journalists and players.
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Winner of two Academy Awards for "Slumdog Millionaire," Rahman has made his distinct imprint in Indian and international cinema and music.
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CEO Lucian Grainge and global CFO Boyd Muir also tout Vivendi's music unit's deal to acquire EMI's recorded music arm as "financially compelling" and immediately accretive to earnings. ... 
Monty Burton's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 12:03 PM
The music business is ever changing. It is our responsibilty to ensure it changes to help us out.
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BuySoundtrax Records is proud to announce the release of MUSIC FROM THE TWILIGHT SAGA FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, a re-imagining of the music from the first three films of the cult saga based on the books by Stephanie Meyer. Dan Redfeld has arranged the scores composed by Carter Burwell (TWILIGHT), Alexandre Desplat (NEW MOON) and Howard Shore (ECLIPSE) for piano and strings.
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Watch ATLUS PR Manager Aram Jabbari rub his hands all over the very sexy The King of Fighters XIII game and 4-disc soundtrack compilation, FREE with your pre-order. http://amzn.to/uV6yHT
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On the day before Google Music is expected to debut, word comes that Google now has licensing deals with three of the four majors. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick. |
