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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Film, Orchestra, Small Ensemble
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Film music/Classical/Funk/Metal/Fusion/Electronic
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not Yet
- Where do you live?
- Carlisle
- About Me:
- Not much to say as of yet!!
I can only talk about my ambitions really:
I want to go to London to study composition in a conservatoire, hopefully next September.
After that I hope to work in TV Composition and eventually Film Scoring in LA!
But who knows.....
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The theme tune is a sore point. I originally had the theme tune (as you'll hear on the dublounge site) but right at the very end a new producer came on board and said she didn't like it so another composer got it....grrrrrr.......one of the team though so not so bad :-)
All the other stuff is by the wonderful gifted composers that I work with :-)
I think it really is the way. It's not what you know but who ;-)
All those colleges are great. I particularly like the guildhall
Kingston is just outside London, in surrey. Unfortunately I don't think it's the force it once was, although the instrument tutors (if they are still there) are excellent. And the bar is good ;-)
I realize I've started something I can't finish by talking about eq etc.
Your avatar shows headphones. If that's what you mix with then no one can help you.
Most advice given in forums about mixing and recording audio is wasted unless the recipient has a truly neutral audio monitoring setup. That doesn't necessarily mean expensive but hi fi speakers tend to be coloured. I recently moved my computer screens towards the wall behind my desk leaving the speakers forward in clear air and it transformed the audio. Only with a transparent sound in your audio monitoring can you begin to achieve 'that sound'. But! in spite of what I've just said, if you have good ideas and compositional skill you can succeed and with a little collaboration in the difficult areas of production, have the career you work hard for. You can do it.
Just listened to 'Beyond......'
I wonder would it still work up a few half tones. At the moment it sounds a little muddy, like instead of looking through the branches I'm in with the roots :)
great idea though.
Ray
The doc was called "around the world in 80 trades". 4 of us worked on it. Unfortunately they mixed a lot of my stuff very low (I think it was too "busy") but I've managed to re-dub some of it here so I can put it up on my site.
I studied at Kingston Uni which was great fun. I had a couple of great piano teachers and met my wife there :-)
What do you play? Where have you applied?
Well I'm newish to the professional composing game only been going about 2-3 years . Done a couple of library albums, a doc for channel 4 and currently doing some cues for a feature in Poland.
Worked for about 7 years before that as a classical recording engineer and also taught music tech.
So what keeps you busy? When you're not writing?
Yep - the Bournes are among some of my favs.
How about you? Who influences you?
Very cool.............LA beckons mate!
Any chance of a lift!! lol
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