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It has been a while since I have posted. This has mostly been due to circumstance; I've had quite a few odds and ends floating about.

Camera Non-obscura


• The biggest news is that Sandy and I have gotten a new camera. The limitations of what we were using on The Early Mixes dictated this move. After searching through many different models, we ( Read more... )

I was tagged by marinshellstone to do the ( Gun Battle Meme )

GEEK SNOBBERY OR MOVIE BUFF SNOBBERY?


• The big news is that Star Wars is going Blu next year, but as I expected, only the Special Edition versions will be represented in the new format. George Lucas has confirmed this, saying that it would just cost too much money to restore the original versions. That's fine, I can save MY money and stick with my ( Read more... )

It never rains but it pours. Directly on the heels of Spartacus (though thankfully not too close afterward) the shipments from Intrada and La-La Land arrived on the same day, dumping an embarrassment of remasters in my lap!

• Predator: I got this landmark Alan Silvestri score because I wasn't all that hot on the sonics of the Varèse Club edition, not ( Read more... )

The idea of making a compilation built around hunting music was one that had been kicking around for a while, but only really became solidified with the Varèse Sarabande release of John Corigliano's Revolution, with its energetic fox hunt sequence. A few months ago I asked for suggestions from the good folks over at the Film Score Monthly Message ( Read more... )

Snagged from blackjackrocket in film_music was the link for this brief but interesting roundtable discussion with A.R. Rahman, Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat and Jan A.P. Kaczmarek. They discuss the realities of creating film music in today's industry and touch on the problem of the muse. Check it out!

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I had originally put together a Batman feature compilation, Gotham Avenger: Screen Tales of the Dark Knight in October of 2005, and it incorporated music from Batman Begins. As with Man of Steel: Screen Tales of the Last Son of Krypton, it had a built-in obsolescence both in terms of incorporating music from the current state of the franchise and ( Read more... )

One of the projects that I had planned to dismantle was my Gotham Avenger: Screen Tales of the Dark Knight compilation. I worked on this project extensively yesterday; the relationship between that mix and the new one is roughly the same as that between Man of Steel: Screen Tales of the Last Son of Krypton and You'll Believe A Man Can Fly (down to ( Read more... )