SONCINEMAD, the film music festival in Madrid, has just announced the program for Harry Gregson-Williams’ Symphonic Concert for Orchestra and Choir (the concert kicks off the festival on June 30th).
Gregson-Williams asnd Silvia Sanz Torres (Orchestra Director) will conduct the 160 piece Chamartin Symphonic Orchestra and the Talia Choir, performing suites specially orchestrated and specifically adapted [...]

The internet has brought together the world’s soundtrack nerds. Nowhere is this more in evidence (the nerd part… Okay, I’m just kidding) than the various discussion lists and msg. boards that enthusiasts post to every day. If you’re curious, have ill-informed opinions, and don’t play nice with others, there might just be a [...]

Today is Soundtrack Free day. It’s the day I celebrate other music. Let me, a film music nut, elighten you about a handful of non-OST albums that I own that you may (or probably won’t) like. If you’re still reading this, congratulations, I love you.
Leaving Through The Window, Something CorporateThis power-punk-pop group [...]

The third entry into my fascinating collection of composer DVD features. Fascinatingly fastinating! This time it’s Brian Tyler discussing his headline-grabbing score for Timeline. Folks still medicated from the stress of Jerry Goldsmith’s replacement on the film best skip this one.

Dan Goldwasser at SoundtrackNet continues his coverage of Michael Giacchino’s Mission: Impossible 3 (like Entertainment Tonight’s monopolistic coverage of cooking impresario Rachel Ray). A new photo essay from the sessions has been added to the site. Sessions that seemed like Circus of The Stars, with tours by Elektra and that best friend who [...]

I have no idea what that headline means, but I feel it’s necessary to work in as much alliteration into the website as possible. Anyways…
In case you missed it, Michael Giacchino’s remote podcast from the Mission: Impossible 3 recording sessions is now available to download at SoundtrackNet. There’s also one there from a recent [...]

Crazy-ass scoring assignment of the year: Hans Zimmer handling the big-screen The Simpsons. Apparently FOX has passed over series workhorse Alf Clausen, and signed up The Zim. While it may not move the filmmakers to reconsider their choice, a fan petition has started to raise some hell.
Scoremagacine has a new interview with composer [...]

Film, television and video game composer Garry Schyman has recently written the original score for the upcoming vidgame Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, developed by Pandemic Studios. Blending Middle Eastern instrumentation with additional orchestral sounds, Schyman recorded with Arabic instrumentalists and vocalists in Los Angeles.
David Rovin, Audio Director at Pandemic Studios, says, “Our vision for [...]

La-La Land Records has announced it will release (on 4/6) John Murphy’s score for Basic Instinct 2, containing the theme from Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated score for the original. John Murphy produced the album with Ford Thaxton, which is probably why Thaxton predictably popped his suspenders when I questioned the inspiration of a previous John [...]

After too much bad food, a friend and I caught an evening show of V For Vendetta, the Wachowski’s return to cinema since one of them became a woman. The film is directed by James McTiegue, with cinematography by the late Adrian Biddle (I did not know he had died until I saw the [...]