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.  Recording brass next week and then looking forward to the final mix.

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.

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. [...]

It’s been a long, long process, but I am finally just about finished with a tremendous upgrade to my studio involving lots of new software, new gear, and five new computers networked together to run it all.  In short, my palette has just been significantly expanded.  I will now be able to work on highly [...]

“Andheri” won the Grand Jury Prize at the San Francisco Shorts fest a couple of weekends ago.
I started writing some cues for TMZ/Extra this week.
I had the tremendous pleasure of recording vocalist Jacob Luttrell this past weekend for a song I cowrote and will coproduce with Ben Crippin Taylor.

I recently completed two suspense/action tracks for X-Ray Dog that are going into mastering this week, including “Simmer,” which is featured on my site’s web player.  Alongside my track “Last Chance,” which was released on the “Night Hounds” disc in January, and another two tracks I completed in early August, I now have a total [...]

During the past couple months:
-The documentary “No Way to Say Goodbye,” which I scored, was acquired by a distributor, New Love Films.
-Scored an online advertisement for Trojan Condoms, directed by filmmaker Dave Green.
-Completed two tracks for an X-Ray Dog release that entered the mastering phase today, with several more in the works for releases later [...]

2009 has been a terrific year so far.  I had my first X-Ray Dog track come out in January on their “Night Hounds” disc.   “Andheri” has been very successful, having been picked up for international distribution by Premium Films and placements at many film festivals.  “A Work of Art” was picked up at several festivals [...]

Both “Andheri” and “A Work of Art” are official selections of Method Fest 2009.  Sushrut Jain (”Andheri” director) just returned from the Clermont-Ferrand festival in France.  Andheri played each day of the week-long festival to a theater packed with over 1000 festival-goers.  It was well-received with crowds forming lines for every showing and answering the [...]