Feature Story
Pulse College Annouces “Beyond The Music”
A short documentary by Alexander Pedersen recorded professionally in the world-class facilities of Windmill Lane Recording Studios
Opinion
Bennett Lincoff’s Comments on Music Licensing
Bennett Lincoff’s comments to the US Copyright office on a new system of music licensing
Composer Profile
Interview with Geoff Barrow
Creating a new force of alien scoring with Ben Salisbury for “Annihilation”
Industry Spotlight
Interview with Alex Gibson
A music editor marches to Hans Zimmer’s rhythm for “Dunkirk” for a historic Oscar nomination as co-leader of the sound editorial troops
Scoring Sessions
Final Note
College Film Scoring Programs: Selling The Dream vs. Disclosing Reality
Mark Northam looks at college film scoring programs and how realistic they are about the business
Technology
Auganizer
Every once in a while, some clever people come up with a solution to an issue that the DAW developers simply have not addressed
Tech Review
On The Score
Audio: Interview with Alexandre Desplat
Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer ALEXANDRE DESPLAT, who beautifully transmutes the language of inter-species love into the French-accented THE SHAPE OF WATER
Chart Doctor
Orchestration: The Devil Is In The Details, Part 2
Ron Hess discusses how you’ll never achieve the Holy Grail of a perfect sight reading if your notation doesn’t tell each musician at a glance how it’s supposed to sound
Music Supervision
CITY OF GHOSTS (and resilient grit)
From its first ethereal tones, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s (Oscar-nominated CARTEL LAND) CITY OF GHOSTS music score and sound design achieves a hauntingly simultaneous balance of nearly-imperceptible presence and atmospheric poignancy
CD Reviews
Royalty Checks and Reality Checks
Benefits of Joining Overseas Royalty Societies
Mark Holden discusses the financial benefits to composers of joining overseas royalty societies
CineRadio
CineRadio Top-20 for November, 2016
Berlin Station tops the November 2016 Top-20 film music radio airplay chart