GameSoundCon: The Art, Technology and Business of Game Audio November 3-4, Millennium Biltmore Hotel 506 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles Composing music for video games is more than just uploading wave files to an FTP site. Video game sound design requires more than great ProTools chops. GameSoundCon teaches the core concepts, practical skills and game […]
August 26, Los Angeles Society of Compoers & Lyricists seminar, Deep DAW’s: Workflows and Strategies of the Pros, exploring digital audio workstations. Venue to be announced.
November 18-19, NYC The Billboard Touring Conference & Awards is the premiere event dedicated to the live music industry. Now in its 12th year, the Billboard Touring Conference features industry-leading programming that informs, educates and provides a forum for promoters, producers, agents, managers, venues, sponsors, marketers, production professionals, merchandisers, digital music executives, ticketing companies, and […]
Artist and composer Zoe Keating talks with Forbes about bitcoin and bitchain, which she feels has the potential to revolutionize how music is monetized. Also music streaming and being an invited guest at Richard Branson’s exclusive Blockchain Summit, exploring digital currency. Talking to Hypebot, the Canadian-born, San Francisco-based cellist and composer rather surprisingly shares that among her […]
German composer Reinhold Heil, whose work has been featured on the big screen in films including Cloud Atlas, The Killer Elite and I, Frankenstein, spoke to KCPP‘s Michelle Lanz for The Frame about composing for eight upcoming episodes of The Sundance Channel’s critically acclaimed spy series, “Deutschland 83.” Heil said that while he’s not been a big […]
Kara-Lis Coverdale’s day job as organ player at the St John Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Montreal provides celestial inspiration for the 28-year-old, who has released three solo recordings, including this year’s Aftertouches, out on Sacred Phrases. Her New Age stylings prompted The Guardian to describe Coverdale as “one of North America’s most exciting young composers, making music that picks apart […]
Dolby Atmos technology has — or will soon — be installed in over 1,200 cinemas around the world, supported by more than 300 titles and the technology has become the standard for theatrical and home entertainment surround sound. Riding that wave of momentum, Dolby teamed with Klipsch to unveil its Reference Premiere Dolby Atmos speakers. Three new Dolby Atmos […]
Two, actually: Marcello De Francisci and Lisa Gerrard have been hired to score Jane’s Got a Gun, a 2016 Weinstein Company release starring Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor, from director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, Pride and Glory). De Francisci’s recent work includes the indie horror entry Stitch and the emotional teen indie film Stryia, Gerrard, who is also a singer, composed scores for Burning […]
Marco Beltrami got the gig for the upcoming historical epic Ben-Hur, directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) for MGM. Beltrami is represented by Kraft-Engel Management.
Games scores differ from film soundtracks “in that they’re less linear and defined, and more responsive and reactive to the player’s moves. The music has to match emotions, conveying whether the character is happy or sad, being chased or scared, rather than the setting.” So says game composer Tommy Tallarico, profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald to […]
