Brian King recently met with Doreen Ringer-Ross, VP of Film and Television Music for BMI, to discuss a partnership with BMI and the USC SMPTV program. In this setting, BMI has provided partial funding for one of our scoring sessions scheduled for spring of 2009. The session focuses on an assignment from USC instructor and BMI composer, Christopher Young. The students will have the unique opportunity to create a new score, as a class, for one of Chris’ past film projects. The assignment will be mentored, in part, by the director of the film. Past projects have included;
The Man Who Knew Too Little with director, Jon Amiel
Hellbound with director, Clive Barker
The Fly II with director, Chris Wallas

The session will take place at either the Newman Scoring Stage at FOX studios or the Eastwood Stage at Warner Bros. Peter Rotter of Decrescent-Rotter will contract the 40 piece orchestra for the date. Bobby Fernandez will mix.

“Movie Plus”-a widely distributed movie channel in Japan (equivalent of Cinemax, Encore, Starz etc.) airs 60 movies per month to 6.9 million household via 310 cable network throughout Japan.
Besides their regular airing of movies, they create original movie-related programs which has become very popular among their viewers.
from Meiling Segal, L.A. independent consultant working with [...]

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Festival of Contemporary Dutch Music
Featuring the CalArts New Century Players and the California E.A.R. Unit
Los Angeles Premiere
One of the most vibrant and eclectic music hotspots in Europe, the Netherlands boast an exceptional wealth of up-and-coming innovators who are busy expanding not only the heterogeneity and freedom of contemporary musical content — but also the role [...]

From 1998 - 2001, the USC scoring program had numerous opportunities to record with the USC Symphony Orchestra in Bovard Auditorium on the campus of USC. As of 2002, I was able to book these sessions with either Paramount Studio Stage “M” or the Eastwood Stage at Warner Bros. These sessions bring players and composers [...]

The class was so successful that Mike Patterson decided to rename the course, “Visual Music”. This clearly demonstrates the impact music has on the video artist’s overall creative concept. Here’s a copy of the program from the screening from the final projects. Congratulations to SMPTV students, Nathan Blume, Ludwig Gorannson, Robert Gross, and Igor Nemirovsky [...]

In this case, SMPTV student composer, Ludwig Gorannson took part in a course typically designed for filmmakers only. Here’s a sample of just one of the many projects that are a direct result of this kind of collaboration between composer and filmmaker.

In this original score by Eugene Mishustin, he makes the most of the 70 piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Eastwood Stage. The film is “Timeline” and in this case, he has rescored the closing scene of the film.

SMPTV student Henri Wilkinson had a chance to work closely with Chris Young as he created this score for an action scene in Spiderman 3. It was recorded live at Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage with a 70 piece orchestra - contracted by Decrescent-Rotter

I’m looking forward to moderating this session with Harry Gregson-Williams on December 2nd.
For more information about the event go to Center For Communication

J-M Espitallier – Guy Bennett
October 16, 2008 at 7:30 pm http://chungkingproject.com/
Please join Jean-Michel Espitallier and Guy Bennett at the Chung King Project Gallery to be delighted by poesy and music.
Poet Jean-Michel Espitallier is the author of several books of poetry, including Le Théorème d’Espitallier (Flammarion, 2003), translated into English by Guy Bennett (Espitallier’s Theorem, [...]

We are really excited to be back on the East Coast - here are some
gigs coming up…
@ PUBLIC ASSEMBLY (formerly Galapagos)
Next Wednesday, October 15th
doors open at 8:00PM
70 N 6th St
Williamsburg, NY
http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/events/view/217
Also on the bill:
suite unraveling - www.myspace.com/suiteunraveling
uri gurvich - www.urigurvich.com
@ CORNELL COLLEGE
Thursday, October 16th
8:00PM
Ithaca, NY
Clinic and concert at Cornell.
@FALCON ARTS CENTER
Friday, October [...]

Wayne Peet / Killzone Music / Los Angeles
Please join us for the L.A. premiere of this new band . . .
HOOKED ON LEMON DROPS
Analog and digital signal processors, acoustic and electric instruments, a semi-perversion of the traditional jazz quartet (sax/piano/bass/drums), borrowed musings from other traditions, free improvisation, written music, shiny surfaces, smashing grooves, sound [...]

WKCR’s Monk fest is underway
Listen in
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

Preview Screening: Synecdoche, New York
Wednesday, October 22, 7:30 pm
The Landmark – West Los Angeles
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, [...]

An Evening with Michel Gondry
Creator of influential music videos and feature films, French Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michel Gondry discusses his own technical and conceptual process and his new book, You’ll Like This Film Because You’re In It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol. He presents clips from his own films and homemade films from visitors to [...]

Behind the Wheel World Premiere
A new film by LAFCO Directed by Tao Ruspoli, Cody Lucich, and James Wade
Here’s the URL for the trailer on youTube;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xywtj5ZPki8
Sunday, October 5, 2008
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
The Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Info
3106995999
Email:
taoruspoli@gmail.com

The 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival in Hollywood from October 2 - 5. For more info go to;
http://artivists.org/

ON THE RADIO
Trilogy, a radio program of new and experimental music which airs on
KXLU 88.9 FM
on Wednesdays,
9 - 10 pm Pacific Time.
is now available live streaming at at kxlu.com
Trilogy has 3 rotating hosts:
Bonnie Barnett, Emily Hay and Michael Davis,
who each bring you the cutting edge in free jazz, electronic music,
performance art, music which employs text, [...]

OPEN GATE THEATRE CONTINUES
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERT SERIES
The 1st Sunday of Every Month
EAGLE ROCK COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER
7:00 PM
2225 COLORADO BOULEVARD
EAGLE ROCK, CA
$10.00 GENERAL ADMISSION
(Students, Seniors, and series artists half price)
(626)   795-4989 PHONE
DIRECTIONS
Take the 2 Freeway(Glendale North)
Off on Colorado, right on Colorado
1/4 mile to corner of Rockland and Colorado - Left hand side
Just west of Eagle Rock [...]

The Jeff Gauthier Goatette
Friday, October 3rd, 8PM
The Museum of Neon Art,
136 W. 4th St, Los Angeles
Contact: MONA at 213-489-9918
The Jeff Gauthier Goatette Unplugged at the Museum of Neon Art
Cryptonight and MONA present the Jeff Gauthier Goatette UNPLUGGED at the
Museum of Neon Art, Friday October 3rd at 8PM.  Violinist/composer
Gauthier has been performing with pianist David Witham, [...]

I’d like to see these 2 battle it out with another duo, “FOP DUETS”
check out “dwmtg” and their self-titled debut;

check him out on my space;
Freebass on mySpace

CHECK OUT THEIR WEB SITE;
http://www.openfist.org/

http://www.goldenbeltarts.com/

Another gem from the bad plus - in this performance the band combines an arrangement of a piece by contemporary composer, milton babbit called “semi-simple variations” with “big eater” by reid anderson. Unfortunately the tape runs out just before the end of the tune TRT= 7:14

CREATIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL @ REDCAT, LA
Sat, Sept 20 @ 8:30 pm
WADADA LEO SMITH’S GOLDEN QUINTET
VIJAY IYER piano, JOHN LINDBERG bass, PHEEROAN AKLAFF & FAMOUDOU DON MOYE drums/percussion
CAROLE KIM, live video projection
also performing that evening: LIAN ENSEMBLE
(see http://redcat.org/season/0809/mus/creative.php)

I have been commissioned to compose a string quartet to accompany an opening for an art exhibit of original paintings by Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski. This event will take place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the summer of 2009. For a look at some of Marcelle’s work go to her web site;
http://www.marcelleharwellpachnowski.com

“Electric Sound Paintings”… see the downbeat article (october 2008 issue) on page 36 for more info.

One of the most prolific musicians on the scene in the last 10 years - with his “home base” trio - Tony Sherr on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums…

Check out the vocals in the middle of the tune. When they did this live it was barely audible so I boosted the audio… added noise but worth it to capture the moment.

another bad plus song by the incomparable dave king…

this is a song by ethan iverson - it was the 2nd tune of the set

recorded live at Catalina’s in Hollywood, CA on 9/06/08. “you are” by reid anderson