One of my first posts in this group was about my OTHER pitching process, which I'd used for 6 years.
I successfully filled up my work schedule with that stra...
Lately I’ve been working with a few directors who have been giving me tons of notes...revising and working our way through many different versions of a cue. My ...
I'm sure this has been said here a million times and in a million ways but it's something I've thought about often throughout my career. Every project, no matte...
Many of us are looking to jump into our industry by assisting someone more established. This is a great idea.
I wrote this in reply to composers looking to f...
For those of you whose day jobs are in the music industry, I'm curious to know what your side hustle/moonlighting/other jobs are. Are they in the industry? Are ...
With the recent suicides of creative leaders like Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and a slew of others over the last few months and years (including composers &am...
Summer travel season it upon us! Here's what I'm taking to Spain and France next month to keep up with my composing deadlines while on the road for concerts and...
I recently encountered three separate cases of young composers dealing with rejection/criticism quite badly (in my humble opinion) and thought I'd share some th...
I feel that there needs to be a conversation about better ways of handling interactions with others in our community. Please consider my point of view with an o...
Was there a Golden Age for media composers when everyone gave ghost writers the credit and back-end payments they deserved?
No.
I don’t mean to be a Debbi...
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Why do we have 1.8% women composers programmed in concerts and 1% women scoring feature films
THIS IS LONG. PLEASE READ IT SLOWLY IN ONE TAKE, when ...
SETTING EXPECTATIONS – A REALITY CHECK
Hello fellow perspectives!
My name is Omri Lahav, I moved to LA about two years ago.
Since then, I've made a point...
Three years and some in LA, and most of my life in a male dominated society that does not quite believe in the importance of music, in addition to a lot of horr...
HOW HAVING A HOBBY CAN ADVANCE YOUR CAREER | WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY?
I read this article recently on the importance of hobbies in advancing one's career. Of cour...
Because it's International Women's Day, a lot of attention has been paid recently on this page to women film composers. Some men find the extra attention - and ...
An early Happy International Women’s day to all the fabulous women composers on this forum. I am sure we are all super ambitious, otherwise we wouldn’t be here!...
Richard’s most recent post has influenced me to finally post on here and maybe share a little about myself and my current journey as you could use it to maybe i...
***The following post is intended as satire. Don't get all serious on me now ***
Have you noticed that every time you get first round client feedback, you go...
Soon I will celebrate 19 years in LA (Feb. 10th to be exact). I came with total naiveté, passion and .... with ZERO business acumen. I had no business plan, rea...
"Write the music and the rest will take care of itself." James Newton Howard
In March 2012 I was getting frustrated and impatient. Prince of Persia: Forgotte...
I recently received word of another “failed” attempt to place in a competition. I wasn’t broken up about it. As we all know, you get used to this as a creative ...
Short but interesting article on the often understated importance of patience in creative and other types of careers. The graphic alone captures a sentiment I h...
My desk for today. Sometimes I badly need to reconnect with what got me into music in the first place, which for me was and is my life long love affair with the...
Today, was a big eye opener to me, and a truly inspiring experience to me..
I went out for lunch with my best friend, I’ve known her since 2007 and she’s bee...
In preparation for the upcoming '5 Questions for...' interviews, I have been reaching out to numerous top composers and industry people to gauge their interest ...
Funny story that's appropriate for this group: Traveling back to the US from the UK after NYE, I was standing in line at US immigration and was called forward t...
After asking Richard to write a post on the difference between "diplomacy" and "butt kissing", he politely suggested that I write it my damn self. So.
What's...
When I was editing Film Score Monthly, there was no end of poking fun at producers and directors who were ignorant of music and composers. Here was something hu...
I am wondering if there are any women composers in this group who are also mothers. As women composers, especially those of us who are married or in a long-term...
I recently was asked this question by a composer and thought it might be helpful to share what I’ve learned about balance, and then open it up to this forum to ...
Burning the candle at both ends for too long can suck the life right out of your creativity. Remember to replenish and refresh along the way.
Eat healthy.
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For those lucky enough to have scored a feature film, (whether Indi or big studio), do you score the entire film in one session/template, or do you use multiple...
Our job can be one of the most stressful without us realizing. We spend hours/days/weeks and months in our writing caves, we prioritize delivering and submittin...
Two personal stories of composing for free: a parable full of survivorship bias, other buckets, and Maslow's pyramid, but maybe useful anyway
A few years ag...
I was going to add this to the most recent thread about working for free but I'm feeling optimistic it's going to turn out better than that....
Okay, so it c...
I was going to add this to the most recent thread about working for free but I'm feeling optimistic it's going to turn out better than that....
Okay, so it c...
I know many of you will disagree with me, Richard Kraft would be the FIRST, but I have been having a different "perspective" regarding unpaid projects especiall...
I have enjoyed how people help each other out on this forum, so I'd like to also lend a hand. Any composers with questions about the mixing process? Perhaps I...
A while back I posted an internship position here, and I want to start off by saying that the level of the applicants was extraordinary. It's incredible how man...
I used to send the demos/mock ups to directors and then go with their feedbacks, but around a year ago, I started to include a short description(PDF) regarding ...
This past Friday, October 20th I had the privilege of watching my client and friend Garry Schyman conduct and record a live orchestra for the upcoming VR video ...
(A HELP-A-COMPOSER WEEK POST-MORTEM)
When I offered to listen to 5 demos from composers and say which I liked best, I received a sea of demos to listen to.
...
I am volunteering to host an afternoon in my back yard for composer parents and their young kiddos to come hang out! Navigating life as a full time working pare...
In the Spirit of what I believe this Forum is about.... I offer:
Pro Composer Help an Aspiring Composer Day: What can I do for you?
If you haven't seen my fri...
If you're HUNGRY for improvement, this will help you.
Us film composers - we love focusing on improving our skills in music. That's great, because the most s...
I give many lectures around the country and the questions I receive boil down to three core questions:
how do I get a scoring job?
how do I jump a l...
I give many lectures around the country and the questions I receive boil down to three core questions:
how do I get a scoring job?
how do I jump a level u...
If you'll permit me two posts in one week, I came across something I thought I should share. A few years ago I was asked to give a talk to a young audience in M...
When I was 15 I learned what would end up being one of the most valuable lessons of my composing career from of all people my high school art teacher.
I knew...
Perspective. The very name of this forum. I gained some important perspective this morning and felt like sharing.
15 years ago, I was living in Los Angeles. ...
