My book Guerrilla Film Scoring was released in 2015, and it was almost immediately adopted by universities across the country and many aspiring film composers. Today, Amazon released the feature-length documentary in 9 episodes. The documentary is entirely segments from celebrity interviews which contributed to the book, so for those of you who aren’t likely to read it’s now streaming! It’s free to Amazon Prime members and very affordable to everybody else. Guerrilla Film Scoring explains how to create a great film score quickly and cost effectively in the current industry climate, and it fills a much-needed hole between the study of music and a career as a composer. To create the book I built a team of 20 celebrity composers …
Presenting at the ASCAP Expo
The ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO is the first and only national conference dedicated to songwriting and composing. Today I was on the “Composer’s Survival Kit” panel, moderated by the awesome Joel Douek. The panel was very much like my book Guerrilla Film Scoring, basically a survival guide about how to navigate our insane media music business. I was in great company with composers Joey Newman and Didier Rachou, and entertainment lawyer Brad Shenfeld.
Writing On Demand
Originally published Winter 2016 by ASCAP We Create Music and by Designing Music Now. Get Over Yourself If you are afflicted with the idea that a working composer or songwriter can also be a pure artist, the best thing you can do is get over yourself right away. In the music industry composers can be artists, but they are service providers first and artists second. They are serving a film, TV show, artist, game, or advertisement, and many of those products don’t require music that is groundbreaking or thought provoking. Composers often need to write simple functional music that does a job in a very specific way. Sometimes there is a need for great artistry, but other times the right music for the …