Here’s a treat: composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, Human Target, Caprica, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) interviews composer Bruce Broughton (Gunsmoke, Logan’s Run, Hawaii Five-O, Dallas, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tombstone). A really superb interview full of great insight, spot-on advice, stories and opinions from two total pros.
Find it on bearmccreary.com here.
Considering a career in scoring for film and television? Here’s a 2009 article in Sound on Sound by Dave Ricard that walks through the low-to-mid-budget process nicely, albeit with a bewildering “it’s not so hard” button on the end of it. I don’t know any professional composers who don’t work really, really hard. (Check out my interview with Bear McCreary to hear more on this.) Maybe Dave Ricard is just lucky.
Find out more about David Ricard’s composing, big band, and production music on his website, lesterbeat.com. Or see his list of television scoring credits stretching back about ten years on IMDB. He’s currently scoring Warner Brothers’ The Tom and Jerry Show.
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I have finally gotten around to sharing some of the modular score elements I wrote for David Kronmiller’s webseries, and Boris. There is a lot of music in here that I didn’t write, and I had no part in any editing or mixing of music or sound. I just wrote some fun percussion cues, part acoustic and part synthesized, for David to use in his work wherever and however he chooses.
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...