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How Low Can You Go?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ray Kemp Apr. 15, 2008.
Music - for love or money
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Music - for love or money
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, television, multimedia, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- classical, jazz, avante garde, rock, blues, flamenco, electronic
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- Where do you live?
- Los Angeles, CA USA
- About Me:
- I compose constantly and live in a cave of a studio. :)
I am currently the composer for "El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera" on Nickelodeon. I have been in the game for over 17 years.
I love motorcycles, travel and any time I can get with my amazing wife and our four kids.
I enjoy communicating with other composers or film music fans who have a passion the medium - or a distaste for the industry. ;)
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- http://www.shawnpatterson.com
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Hello all -
I found this cool group while searching for agent information this morning and decided to join. What a great community. I'm looking forward to discussing things with everyone.
Its my pleasure to be a part of this!
Shawn Patterson
www.shawnpatterson.com
I found this cool group while searching for agent information this morning and decided to join. What a great community. I'm looking forward to discussing things with everyone.
Its my pleasure to be a part of this!
Shawn Patterson
www.shawnpatterson.com
Posted on October 9, 2007 at 12:37pm —
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Great place to be this is indeed. Coll tracks as well, really dig it man..
Talk soon..
Marinho
Hey Jan
Do you mean live instruments combined with samples? when you say "hybrids" ? If so, sometimes I record live instruments combined with samples (when time and budge allow). However, most of the time, its just me with a million years of programming/sequencing under my belt and a large collection of sample libraries.
S
great orchestration, awesome music. Regards from Cologne, Jan
Been to dang busy to spend much time online. I am also a writer and publisher and I have couple of new books coming out, one a political thriller novel that I wrote and the other a biographical by a very interesting woman who was once friends with Eleanor Roosevelt. Both her and her husband are in their 80s and are blind, but still are major activists in the fight to eradicate the diseases that cause blindness. Also I am taking the MFTM course to improve my ability to write music to briefs. I am a prolific composer, but I am used to writing what I want to write, not what someone else wants me to write.
-Bob
In no particular order; lots of heroin, coffee and punching myself in the face.
Just kidding about the punching part.
I had an assistant for about 6 months - it didn't work out. I find it difficult to find someone with midi sequencing chops, command of samples ( as such, principles of using samples to simulate effective orchestration) strong work ethic and extremely efficient around studio gear.
I have an assistant, but only handles paper work, invoicing, cue sheets, basic communications, scheduling. Not much in the way of hands on in the studio.
With this particular series I am, the ability to determine what is needed is often hit or miss, delegating that ( at this point ) to an assistant would yield train wrecks. (train wrecks meaning lots more revisions).
So, seriously, I just deal with it for now and try to manage my time effectively.
Its difficult to know when to "cut off a piece" - but, its like that constantly. I have to complete something (compose, sequence, mix, sync send Quicktime video files for approval and deliver output final stems to the mix house in a ridiculously short amount of time. )
Television schedules are a bitch - for sure.
S
Yeah, that was basically the conclusion Mark Northam made in his article a few months back on the subject in Film Music Mag. I've had a number of people approach me about interning/apprenticing(is that a word?). Maybe, it's about time I consider bringing someone in. How do you handle it when you're on a series or feature?
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