I am not a huge Hans Zimmer fan. The days of my vitriol toward the man are long past, and I have even grudgingly admitted that he has quite a few good scores under his belt. The focus of my ire is not so much on Zimmer himself or his protégés (some of whom, such as Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell, have written perfectly respectable scores in ( Read more... )

Echoes

Assembling my Light and Shadow: The Historical Epics of Ridley Scott meant working extensively with Vangelis' music from 1492: Conquest of Paradise for the first time in a while. I have been rather enjoying delving into some of his non-film related music as well, including such sublime albums as Voices, El Greco and Mythodea, some of which ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing much of late because I've been working on my iPod, going through everything to make sure that there are no more missing tracks (or, harder to distinguish, replacement tracks with reversed right and left stereo channels that came about because somebody - I'm not going to mention who, but he's usually a bit of a stickler for ( Read more... )

The firmware upgrade for the Samsung UP5000 has finally been released ( Read more... )

This genesis of this project was a conversation with melancthe, in which she mentioned that listening to "Building the Crate" from Chicken Run was one of the few things that could cut through the tedium of washing dishes. It occurred to me that there are several cues I could think of offhand that had that same sort of "can do" aspect to them. In fact, ( Read more... )

There is now more music on my iPod than I've had capacity for in the past. Just for shits and giggles...


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While I had indeed made my Silver Screen Star Trek and Man of Steel albums on the new computer, due to odd timing and equipment issues, I hadn't really gotten around to working on it since my grandfather died. A mix idea had been tossing about in my head, a piece that was inspired somewhat by the turmoil of the past few months. Today, I put all ( Read more... )

Last night I put together the final edit of my follow up to Songs of the Heavens. It is interesting how the new programs I use and the Nomad have changed the process of making a mix disc since I compiled that one two and a half years ago. Previously, I would get an idea for a mix and have to compile the tracks and finish it in one session. Today ( Read more... )

Playful Tunes

I had been toying with the idea of an album like this for some time, but I didn't know really where to start. An advantage of the Nomad, however, is that it is very easy to create a playlist on the fly, and so one day, while listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a few months ago, I realized that "Aunt Marge's Waltz" ( Read more... )

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