Recent content by Stephen Kaminski

Sure, I bet you do. Problem is I don't work for free, but I am reasonable. Check out my credits and demos at www.StephenKaminskiMusic.com I've done documentaries, comedies, horror, drama, creepy and everything else as well as being one of the composers for the Shaman King on FOX. My music has...

OK, if any of you have been reading the Composer's Thread you will know my stand on this. But here's my 3 cents anyway: BMI or ASCAP might help, but you should contact the Harry Fox Agency www.nmpa.org/hfa.html who issues the licensing for most "big hits". If they are the "administrating...

The most recent Mars rip off I found was in a cue from Harry Potter (J. Williams) although it was disguised in 5/4. Sneaky! By the way, we have over a hundred post and over a thousand views now, do we all get a free toaster or something?

I wonder if there was ever a film made that didn't use "Mars" as a temp track. I often hear similar motifs in scores and can almost hear the conversation between the director and composer... "Well, how close can you come to this Mars track, because I really like it and it works with the scene."

Guess not.... How about Holst (The Planets)?

By the way, bringing non-film composers into the discussion, any Respighi fans out there? ("Pines of Rome", "Fountains of Rome") "Feste Roman" is one of my all-time favorite 20th century works. Anyone ever heard of him?

Baz, When I worked on scoring the Shaman King cartoon, we (the composers) got the original Japanese versions to start scoring to, along with a printed translated script in English. We had to start the scoring process before the voice actors here had time to dub the cartoon into English...

I disagree hutch. The music will always be better when composed to the visuals and not the other way around. (yes, big general statment) The music might be "free-sounding" but will not "marry" to the scene as well. Like Clive said, you might as well use library music. What if, in that montage...

If a filmmaker wants to use a piece of music for the trailor or demo of the film, that's fine. Even most high-budget trailors don't use the actual score music initially anyway. They usually have some appropriate music to edit the trailor to. Some companies even specialize in scoring only...

OK, that brings up a whole other can 'o worms... I CAN'T STAND when a filmmaker wants music BEFORE I see a scene. They will attempt to describe the scene and say, "I need the music ahead of time to help me edit the film/scene." - No, no, no, no! I've done this a few times, under much duress...

One other recent composer not named yet is Don Davis. (Matrix, Jurassic Park III...) John Williams hand-picked Davis to do Jurassic Park III as a sort of successor. I met Don while he was recording the original Matrix score in LA. What a talented nice guy. Here is someone who can come in with...

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Hutch wrote: OK, I think I got it now. Thanks Hutch.

TV composers do sometimes get left on the side unfortunately. Mark snow is one of my favorites as well. One of John Williams' first TV gigs was "Lost In Space". Great theme.

And how do you get the quote to come up in that white little box on these posts?