ROSE Poster revealed.
/The ROSE poster has been released. Take a look.
Soundiron Featured Artist Interview
/Special thanks to Sample library developer Soundiron and their Jan Hoeglund for inviting me to interview in their artist interview series over on there developer blog page. I talked about a lot of topics from my recent SyFy Channel work on Planet Of The Sharks, to scoring Crooked Arrows, to what my workstation is like and my advice for young composers. Check it out!
Film Music Reporter mentions Planet Of The Sharks
/The Film Music Reporter, one of the most extensive and up to date online news outlets exclusively for film and television music has reported on the up coming premiere of Planet Of The Sharks and even linked to the Planet Of The Sharks suite I put up on soundcloud last week.
http://filmmusicreporter.com/2016/07/24/weekly-tv-music-roundup-july-24-2016/#more-39620
Planet Of The Sharks Suite
/With just one week till the SyFy Channel broadcast premiere, here is a little 10 min suite of music from Brian's score contributions to Planet Of The Sharks.
Planet Of The Sharks Trailer
/The Asylum has released a trailer for Planet Of The Sharks. Directed by Mark Atkins with a score by Brian and co-composer Kays Al-Atrakchi. Premiering on Syfy channel, July 27th @ 9 pm.
Brian finishes Planet Of The Sharks score for SyFy Channel
/Brian has finished scoring the SyFy Channel original movie Planet Of The Sharks. The score was co-composed with Kays Al-Atrakchi similar to the previous film Awaken. The film also has the same director as Awaken, Mark Atkins. So it is really an assembly of much of the same creative team. Planet Of The Sharks will premiere on the SyFy channel, Wednesday July 27th at 9pm, EST as part of their "Shark Week" programming leading up to Sharknado 4.
A glimpse at my current composing template
/A glimpse at my current composing template and process...
Making Sharks sound scary...
/SyFy shark week here I come. What do scary impending sharks sound like? Guess I will figure that out.
(detailed explanation of things starts at around 6:30)
LEFT TO DIE gets a UK release March 7, 2016
/AWKAEN's title has been changed for the UK market and is now called LEFT TO DIE. The film will be released by Kaleidoscope UK on March 7, 2016.
Another great review of the AWAKEN soundtrack!
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Randall Larson's Soundtrax column over at Buysoundtrax.com gave the AWAKEN soundtrack another great review today. This is the second positive review this week. Of the score, Randall says...
“AWAKEN is a splendidly listenable score on disk, with character, environment, and action cues that hold together nicely for listening apart from the film, developing through and across the story arc into a pleasing resolution at the end. ”
Film Music Magazine gives AWAKEN sdtk a great review.
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Daniel Schwieger of Film Music Magazine gave the AWAKEN soundtrack a great review in this month's column. Of the score he says,
“Ralston and Al-Atrakchi (“Extreme Force”) give “Awaken” a mean, melodic, sample-driven structure that nicely recalls the synth, and often pan flute topped-sound of “Awaken’s” 80’s indie revenge antecedents like “Deadly Prey,” a spirit that’s since been carried on with liberated fury by “Relentless Justice” and “Camino.”
AWAKEN soundtrack is released
/The AWAKEN soundtrack CD has been released by Perseverance Records and is available in a limited edition run from a variety of retailers including Amazon.com and the Perseverance Records website. It is also available digitally from iTunes, Amazon MP3 and also from the Perseverance Records website.
In the studio mastering with Chas Ferry at Hollywood Trax.
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Mastering the new soundtrack album with Chas Ferry at Hollywood Trax. Chas does a lot of mastering work for Perseverance Records and Varesé Sarabande Records. This one is sounding great and I can not wait till it gets out there isolated on CD for everyone to hear. More details to come soon!
Brian to score Ten More for Crooked Arrows writer Brad Riddell
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I am very excited to be scoring the short film Ten More for the directorial debut of Crooked Arrows writer Brad Riddell. The film's main protagonist is a concert pianist. I have already composed a piece that will be used on camera and opens the film. Brad is a fellow graduate of USC and is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at DePaul University.
A great score is incredibly important to most films, but when your protagonist is a concert pianist, it's got to be...
Posted by Ten More on Tuesday, July 14, 2015
