Making the impossible possible
What is the fastest way to become a better composer? It’s probably to stop doing everything by yourself. The traditional division of labor in the scoring process has eroded completely. Composers used to be one player in a fairly large music team. They put notes on paper, attended recording sessions, and bore few other responsibilities. As our industry has evolved …
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, …
There are no guarantees in any culture in the world that art is going to be sustainable and provide you a good living. As a composer you might become well paid eventually, but you will never have a steady or predictable career path. Being highly skilled and highly experienced is not enough in the music industry. Instead of a corporate …
Bill Brown is a young giant, composing for many high profile projects in film, television, and video games including CSI: NY, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and The Devil’s Tomb. Here are his top 10 pieces of advice to all the Guerrilla composers out there: < Back to Guerrilla Tips Connect — My most important piece of advice to young …
USA Today Reports Composers Third-fastest Growing Job in US: But they got the reason wrong. By Brian Schmidt For more articles like this visit GameSoundCon.com As was recently reported by USA Today, Music Directors and Composers have had a great decade, with 10 year job growth of 178%. The paper listed them as the having the third largest percentage gain …
Written by Julien Gordon For more articles like this visit julliengordon.com I’m a recovering workaholic. Over the past year, I’ve been reading, researching, and conducting experiments on myself to understand the difference between high performers and workaholics. I believe that there are healthier ways for us to work without sacrificing our values, the people we value, or the value we …
By Brittney Saline and Connie Frigo For more articles like this visit RoadOfCreativity.com Statistics are interesting, don’t you think? We use them to gauge the likelihood of success or as a way of summarizing the state of affairs in a given population. Sometimes they’re just entertaining bits of trivia (at the time this post was written, there were over 187,000,000,000 …
By Connie Frigo For more articles like this visit RoadOfCreativity.com Check out this video of Taimur Sullivan and I performing “Black” for two baritone saxophones by Marc Mellits. If you are like most people, your reaction to this video has to do with the music, composer, performance, performers or instruments – definitely something performance-related. What most people don’t realize are …
The Ultimate Question: The question “How do I find work?” is one that can baffle even the most successful artists. The music industry has become extremely diverse and the work is spread out extremely widely, so Guerrilla tactics are needed more than ever before. Any industry relating to the arts is whimsical. Styles change, tastes change, the personalities of the …
Candid book & documentary voted a groundbreaking guide for demonetized music industry by universities and professionals Los Angeles, CA, March 9, 2015 — Jeremy Borum’s Guerrilla Film Scoring is the first guide to provide new cutting-edge solutions for composers to deliver quality music with ever-shrinking budgets. Even before its release on April 16, 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield, it already …