I started a record label.
I’m launching a micro-indie record label and I could really use your help!
composing/songwriting
#7daysofVGM take two: a different approach
For my second #7DaysOfVGM Composition Challenge, I treated all seven little pieces of music I wrote as if they were all part of the same video game score.
#7daysofVGM: a thrilling compositional sprint
The #7daysofVGM Composition Challenge is a semi-regular week-long event coordinated by the Video Game Music Academy. It’s basically a compositional sprint—or rather, seven of them in a row. There is...
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Diego Stocco’s Custom Built Orchestra.
Now here’s a man living out his love of sounds. A great introduction to Diego Stocco via his Custom Built Orchestra:
Music For One City And Six Drummers: Sound of Noise
Okay, remember “Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers?” Sure you do, it’s the very last thing I posted before this.
Well, they made a movie out of it. I mean, out of the idea of basing a film on percussionists invading a space and making music with what they find there. Looks like a ton of fun.
Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers
Love drumming? Love watching entertaining short films? Love making music out of found objects? Love envisioning how you’d tackle a challenging production sound problem?
If you answered yes to all four of these questions, I really, really hope you’ve seen this.
Into the world of music publishing.
I just thought I’d share that I’m in the process of finding a publisher for what will be my very first piece of published music. It’s a set of three little piano pieces called Three Piano Miniatures inspired by birds. The total playing time is about 3 to 3 1/2 minutes and you can hear them on my Composing and Scoring page.
Anyone have any insight into the publication process, or any ideas how best to go about this? I’m waiting to hear from the first publisher now—if I find success, or a whole lot of failures, I’ll post an update.
Noteflight – great cloud notation software.
There are so many amazing things happening online now with music and audio software. More and more is possible with software that doesn’t even live on your computer. Noteflight, a cloud-based music notation program, is one example of this. It doesn’t compare to Sibelius and Finale (yet), but considering it’s all taking place through a website… it’s fantastic. And of course, this engenders an entire social facet of the music-creating experience that never existed until now.
Favorite feed: Interchanging Idioms by Chip Michael.
I have just added a new favorite feed: Interchanging Idioms by Chip Michael. He has subtitled it “Classical Music of the 21st Century.” I might change that to “Classical Music...