Music Emmy Nominations Announced

Posted July 21, 2008

Nominations for the 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards, covering the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008, were announced by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

Steve Jablonsky Signed for Gears of War 2

Posted July 21, 2008

Game music industry website Music4Games.Net is reporting that Gears of War 2 Lead Designer Cliff Bleszinski has revealed at E3 that composer Steve Jablonsky (Transformers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is scoring the music for Gears of War 2, the forthcoming blockbuster sequel third person shooter developed by Epic Games

SONiVOX Announces New Software Division

Posted July 21, 2008

SONiVOX has announced the development of their in-house music instrument (MI) software development team

Attorney Brian Lee Corber Launches Music Legal Services Site

Posted July 16, 2008

Veteran Los Angeles music attorney Brian Lee Corber has announced the launch of his website and the availability of document and contract review and other services available for instant purchase via the Internet.

Audio Impressions To Premiere DVZ Strings at audioMIDI Event July 26

Posted July 16, 2008

Audio Impressions will conduct a public preview of the release version of the company’s much-awaited DVZ Strings virtual instruments and 70-piece orchestral string library at the audioMIDI.com Film & TV Composition Clinic on July 26.

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COMPOSER SIGNINGS

 

Mark Mothersbaugh Signed for “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”

Posted July 21, 2008

According to Greenspan Artist Management, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame has been signed to score Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a drama comedy starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as two teenagers who tries to locate the venue of their favorite band’s secret show in New York. Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas) directs for release [...]

“Lower Learning” Assigned to Ryan Shore

Posted July 21, 2008

Ryan Shore, the composer of the recent scores for Numb, The Girl Next Door and Prime, has several new films coming up. He is doing the music for Lower Learning, a comedy about what is possibly the worst elementary school ever, starring Jason Biggs and Eva Longoria Parker, directed by Mark Lafferty. Ambush Entertainment produces [...]

John Powell Will Score “Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs”

Posted July 14, 2008

John Powell will compose the score for the third entry in the animated Ice Age series, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Powell already scored the second film, Ice Age: Meltdown, taking over the series from David Newman, who wrote the music for the first 2002 picture. Dawn of the Dinosaurs is Powell’s third project [...]

“They Came from Upstairs” To Be Scored by John Debney

Posted July 14, 2008

20th Century Fox has confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores that John Debney will compose the original score for the studio’s upcoming sci-fi comedy They Came from Upstairs, directed by John Schultz (The Honeymooners, Drive Me Crazy). The film is about a bunch of kids who fights to protect their vacation home from invading aliens. Cast [...]

Angelo Milli Signed For “Seven Pounds”

Posted July 14, 2008

The upcoming Will Smith drama Seven Pounds, co-starring Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson, gets an original score composed by Angelo Milli. His previous credits include 2006 independent thriller Unknown and the recent acclaimed drama Paraiso Travel. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Seven Pounds tells the story of a man “who will change the lives of seven [...]

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Technology

Memo: To Sample and Software Developers

By Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander talks about SONiVOX, its new player, and American innovation

Chart Doctor

Strategic Profit Sharing

By Ron Hess

Ron Hess talk about sharing work vs. doing gigs solo

On The Score

AUDIO: On The Score with Danny Elfman

By Daniel Schweiger

Daniel Schweiger’s exclusive interview with composer Danny Elfman

Final Note

ASCAP’s Shameful Treatment of Fred Karlin’s Legacy

By Mark Northam

ASCAP celebrates its film scoring workshop by avoiding any mention of its founder, Fred Karlin.

Opinion

Ebony and Ivory: The Door Only Swings One Way

By Samm Brown III

Composer and producer Samm Brown III talks about the challenges of African-American film composers in Hollywood today.

Royalty Checks

ASCAP’s MediaGuide: Will It Identify Your Music?

By Mark Holden

Mark Holden and guests take a close look at ASCAP’s multi-million dollar MediaGuide detection system.

CD Reviews

CD Review: The Dark Knight

By Daniel Schweiger

Daniel Schweiger reviews the score to The Dark Knight by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard

CineRadio

CineRadio Top-20 for June, 2008

By Beth Krakower

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull tops the CineRadio Top-20 film music radio airplay chart for the second month in a row

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