September 29, 2007 – 12:51 am
I wrote these for a new company called Reel TV, that hosts and streams films- sort’ve like a professional-level YouTube for filmmakers, film students, actors, corporate videos, etc. They just wanted some one-minute tracks for their members to get as a perk when they joined their site. It was the most fun I’ve had at [...]
September 28, 2007 – 11:56 am
Watched Kurosawa’s Rashomon for the first time a few nights ago. A fascinating and cool movie in many ways. The music is by Fumio Hayasaka. Sarah suggested that it was very Tchaikovsky, and it reminded me a lot of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf- interesting to remember how close Russia is to Japan. It’s orchestral [...]
September 28, 2007 – 3:27 am
So the other website we run at work is Productiontrax, which is a royalty-free media library. Hundreds of contributors sell the rights to their music and other media through Productiontrax, and thousands of people who need stock media (indie filmmakers, video game designers, website designers, etc.) come there to buy the rights to music, photography, [...]
September 28, 2007 – 3:13 am
These are links to the most recent songs I’ve arranged for Spiritrax. You have to choose a key on the preview player before it’ll start playing. You’ll hear an audio watermark along with the song, which just prevents people from stealing it. My boss usually gives me the basic idea for these arrangements, then I [...]
September 28, 2007 – 2:42 am
It’s been six months since I moved to Arizona. For the last four years in Boston, I was teaching elementary general music, basing most of my curriculum on my Kodaly training. When I moved, I decided not to take a teaching job, and instead to try to make a career of being a musician. I [...]
