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.

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” 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 of seven X-Ray Dog tracks available for advertising and trailer licensing.

I also finished writing the score for Harry Chaskin’s “Bygone Behemoth,” a brilliant claymation short that will be making the festival rounds in the coming months.

Finally, In the past month I have been going through a long overdue major equipment upgrade in my studio, and I’m looking forward to getting my new rig up and running for projects coming up later this fall.

Nothing to divulge about my upcoming projects just yet - stay tuned.

I posted some new pieces to the player this weekend: X-Ray Dog tracks “Unforgettable” and “Simmer,” as well as excerpts from the scores to “El Pez” and “You, Me, the Sea,” two projects for which I was fortunate to collaborate with fellow composer Ben Crippin Taylor.

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 in the year.

-Starz original series “Party Down,” for which I wrote additional music, entered an international distribution agreement and was picked up for a second season this fall.

-Scored three short films with two more lined up for July, including “To Live and Dine in LA” starring David Hasselhoff.

-Have been engaged in a promising demo process to compose for a major, highly creative and award-winning advertising agency; more on that soon.

Looking forward to the great summer that lies ahead; stay tuned!

You can now view an IMDB page with a partial list of my credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3468082/

A lot of great projects going on right now, look out for an update later this week.

The site has been refreshed with new clips and a current credits list. An update with some new music should be on the way fairly soon.

“Andheri” won Best Dramatic Short at the Breckenridge Film Festival.

I just finished scoring two short films, with a couple more coming up very soon.  I have also continued working on cues for X-Ray Dog.  A site update is on the way with new music and videos.  Stay tuned.

“Andheri” was awarded with Special Jury Honorable Mention at IFFLA this past week.  Congratulations to Sushrut Jain and the whole “Andheri” crew.