http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news News for Composer Daniel Walter Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:08:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New pictures, cues, and clips.  Summer news updates soon. http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/06/site-updated/ 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. http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/04/andheri-wins-phoenix-film-festival/ 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 ... http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/03/seattle-andheri/ 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. http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/03/seattle-strings-round-2/ 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. http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/03/seattle-string-session-wrapped/ 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. http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/02/bygone-behemoth-to-premiere-at-sxsw/ 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 ... http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/02/seattle-string-sessions-new-project/ 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 ... http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2010/01/2010-2009/ 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 ... http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2009/12/party-down-named-in-afis-10-best-of-2009/ 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. http://www.danielwaltermusic.com/news/2009/12/party-down-season-two/