What Lao Tsu Told Sam Sniderman
There is this beautiful thing about arranging. You listen to it 10 million times and make changes over and over until it feels like there is nothing left to do. […]
Composing
What Would You Do and Why Did Toronto?
Dear Bobby Wiseman I’m a big fan of your music and your blog, but I’m writing for another reason today. My buddy wants me to be the composer for his […]
Guide For Finding A Composer (pt. 1)
Give the potential composer 5 minutes of your film to score with no direction for free or a small fee. See what comes back before actually making a final decision […]
Morituri
Never heard of this film but feeling bored of current and the new arrivals started searching other sections. Found this with Yul Brynner and Marlon Brando in the first row […]
Guide For Finding A Composer (pt. 2)
Reject something the potential composer does, see what happens. You want a composer who doesn’t throw a hissy fit if you show your veto power. You want a composer for […]
Bad Kissing
Sometimes people approach me to score a film and explain how to write the music. Weird when they do that; probably they never before worked with a composer. It is […]
Music for the tv show Guidance
So much fun to score GUIDANCE for Bite/TV . Now pt 2 of my evil plan to get Jared Sales to make a video for the song Robert Dziekanski at […]
Cicada
Where will David Ridgen find a suitable composer for his spooky feature debut? I know where.
Assfaces of the World
I thought they might not pay me anything since they were firing me… I would have accepted that.
Guidance
I was asked to score the theme for a tv series called Guidance (which is hilarious). Sometimes people ask me to make something up, out of my head, sometimes they […]