New pictures, cues, and clips.  Summer news updates soon.

Festival accolades continue to pour in for “Andheri,” winning best short last weekend at the Phoenix Film Festival.

I’m working on a short and wrapping up post-production on my live orchestral X-Ray Dog cues; most of the cues are mixed and near completion.

Just returned from a second recording session Seattle, this time adding a virtuosic twenty-piece choir to the mix.  In the past month I’ve recorded five live orchestral cues with X-Ray Dog, and we are in the final stretch of production with this bunch; recording brass this week.  I look forward to sharing these new pieces soon.

Andheri is still playing and winning festivals over 1.5 years since its completion.  Most recently Andheri won best short at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

Just found out that I’ll be heading back up to Seattle in a couple weeks to record a few more cues for X-Ray Dog.  Looking forward to that, in addition to a couple upcoming local brass recording sessions for the tracks we laid down in Seattle earlier this month.

Just returned from recording strings for X-Ray Dog at Studio X in downtown Seattle with members of the Northwest Sinfonia.  I will be recording brass in Los Angeles in the coming weeks.

Harry Chaskin’s animated short, “Bygone Behemoth,” which I scored last summer, will premiere at the SXSW Film Festival next month in Austin, Texas.  Watch the trailer here.

Currently looking forward to a recording session for some orchestral trailer cues with X-Ray Dog.  I’ll be heading up to Seattle for the session in just a few weeks.

I’m also beginning work on a new short that should be finished by the first of March.  A lot of new writing going on, and I look forward to sharing it.

Finished off 2009 with some promo work for ABC and wrapped up additional music duties on “Party Down,” selected as one of AFI’s ten best shows from 2009.  Heading into 2010, so far I have a late February recording session for orchestral action adventure cues with X-Ray Dog.  More to come!

Starz original series “Party Down,” for which I am an additional music composer, was named one of the top ten shows of 2009 in the AFI Awards.  AFI placed “Party Down” in the company of outstanding shows like “Glee,” “Mad Men,” “Big Love,” and others.  See the full list here.

“PARTY DOWN is television’s best-kept secret. Creators John Enbom, Dan Etheridge, Paul Rudd and Rob Thomas have combined their creative talents to tell a wickedly funny tale of a catering company run by a smorgasbord of LA actor wannabes. This clever conceit has the show’s devoted audience cheering for a collection of characters that flub their way through life, each depicted with real affection and an aching authenticity. PARTY DOWN knows its world and mocks it with authority, though at its significant heart, the show is a celebration of the joy and despair of aspiring to something that may never come to pass.”

I’ve started writing additional music for season two of “Party Down,” a Starz original television series produced by Paul Rudd and Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars, October Road).  Outside of that, work continues on highly cinematic orchestral action adventure cues for X-Ray Dog.