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February 2008 Blog Posts (8)

New Wiki site for saxophone repertoire

I have just set up a new WIKI as a ressource to keep us informed of any new pieces written or performed for saxophone.

For those of you unfamiliar with a WIKI, it is an interactive web site which can be edited by many people. The best example of this is Wikipedia.

Well, now the saxophone community has its own wiki site.

What I propose is a collaborative of all saxophonists and composers who wish to keep us informed of new pieces which are being created. As we… Continue

Added by Bernard Savoie on February 25, 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

lots of cool things ....

... happened during the last weeks. For more info visit my website: http://www.alexpfeffer.net

- By order of Kuju Entertainment Ltd. in London and Nintendo, I created music and sound effects for the cinematics of the Wii game "Battalion Wars 2", while the ingame music and main theme was done by Justin Scharvona.

- Nick Batzdorf, the owner of VI magazine and Frederick Russ, owner of the VI Control Forum, have been so kind to feature my humble self in the recent issue of VI… Continue

Added by Alex Pfeffer on February 22, 2008 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

CONCERTS AND MORE...

Added by pedro contreras on February 22, 2008 at 4:00am — No Comments

Some New Material - would like some feedback.

I've recently posted some new material.

A couple of shorts that I did for the MFTM course:

Indianapolis
Raggae Electronica

They are both exactly 1 minute long and are meant to be looped.

And also 4 new installments in a series I am working on based loosely on Tolkien's the Silmirillion

The Dawn
The Long Road Home
Call to War
The Refugees

Any feedback would be appreciated!

Thanks.

Added by Leon Portelance on February 20, 2008 at 6:00am — 5 Comments

New Songs

I've added two new tunes to my list. "Morning Amor" is a cue that was done for Good Morning America that I thought achieved a nice laid back quality.

The song "Meant To Be Mine" has an interesting back story. I'm a member of a New York based group called The Manhattan Producer's Alliance (go to: http://www.manhatpro.com/ for more info on it) and we were recently approached by eSession ( http://www,esession.com ) to try out their service within the MPA community. eSession is a web… Continue

Added by Dan Carter on February 15, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

MMP Scores Big with Josiah

Here's the web version:

http://www.merrittmusic.com/josiah.html

FEBRUARY 2008

Custom music company - Merritt Music Productions LLC - teams up with American Idol contestant, Josiah Lemming to create “Anything Beautiful,” a new song for an international client.

“The client wanted an original song to reflect their new USA campaign - something emotional, intimate, uplifting and hopeful,” said Chris Merritt,… Continue

Added by Chris Merritt on February 13, 2008 at 11:30am — 10 Comments

my funny Star Wars spoof; a plug without shame...

Sith'D, the Star Wars spoof I scored that won 2006 Best Comedy at Comic-Con, is approaching a quarter of a million downloads! Can you help us get over the hump? (It's only 2:16.)

Please pass this along to some friends if you like it.....

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/sithd.jsp

My wife, two small children and my PRO will all appreciate it!

(Royalty checks…

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Added by Scott W. Hallgren on February 12, 2008 at 8:16am — 1 Comment

Interesting results to my recent music use survey.....

I sent this out to over 300 production and post companies, promising anonymity via Mister Poll.com; I got responses back in the high double digits, and have posted the data here. Please note that some of the questions could have more than one answer.

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Is music a budget line item or consideration when you start a project?

75% Yes

25%…

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Added by Scott W. Hallgren on February 5, 2008 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments