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Seattle Strings, Round 2

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:51:24 +0000

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.

Seattle String Session Wrapped

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:35:09 +0000

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.

“Bygone Behemoth” to premiere at SXSW

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:36 +0000

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.

Seattle String Sessions, New Project

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:31:14 +0000

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.

Heading into 2010

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:09:21 +0000

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!

“Party Down” Named in AFI’s 10 Best of 2009

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:49:20 +0000

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.”

“Party Down” Season Two

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:41:03 +0000

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.

New Tracks Available for Licensing

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:15:14 +0000

Brand new X-Ray Dog release, “Bite Size,” makes a number of my tracks available for licensing in commercials. Out of four discs with over one hundred cues, the promo features my own track, “Going It Alone,” from start to finish. View and listen here.

Studio News, TMZ Cues and Trailer Cues

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:00:33 +0000

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 elaborate productions and, most importantly, monstrous software-based orchestral arrangements with ease. These upgrades are ready just in time for the beginnings of my next X-Ray Dog cues; I’m very excited for these next cues and they are my most involved orchestral work to date, including a planned recording session. More on that as it develops.

Outside of that, this week I completed and turned in cues for TMZ/Extra. Finally, frequent collaborator Ben Crippin Taylor and I completed recording and producing a song that we cowrote for the International Songwriting Competition.

“Andheri” Wins Again, and More

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:01:55 +0000

“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.