I’m currently bouncing 5.1 splits of my latest film score, Above the Ashes (http://abovetheashes.com/). This gives me some time to write about it.
The film is a documentary about the Four Mile fire near Boulder. Colorado. It traces the experience of six men who stayed in the valley and tried to save houses.

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The next few entries are from my journal of the 2010 Art of Record Production conference.

Day 4 – Friday 4 December 2010

After  a long day of travel and a late night Friday night, Saturday morning was rough. I got up, grabbed breakfast in the Hotel again, and then went to catch Thomas Haines’ presentation on his ensemble at CCM and Jason Corey’s presentation on Technical Ear Training.

Then I went back to the Hotel to finish my prep work for my presentation. I was running consistently long in my practice runs, so I continued to cut things until the last minute. I got back to Leeds Met at 1:00 to catch the other presentations in my block: Brian Rossiter’s presentation on gender issues in Prince, and Mike Hajimichael’s presentation on virtual production and online collaboration. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend Leslie Gaston’s presentation. I was disappointed that we were scheduled during the same session. She was one of my teachers at the University of Colorado, Denver.

My presentation went well, but I was pretty rushed. My PowerPoint wasn’t as streamlined as I usually like, so there was a lot of info on each slide. I felt the audience focus in on that every time I changed slides. Timothy Dalton, who worked for Faith No More in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the only comment we had time for before the session break, and he voiced his support for the presentation. That was a nice boost after the presentation.

The next session was the lecture by DJ Spooky (Paul Miller). It was a great lecture on the culture of remixing, drawing connections between main artistic and cultural trends in the 20^th century. He is a brilliant public speaker.

The final session of the day was a panel on songwriting in the studio. After that, I went back to the hotel and grabbed a quick nap. I was awoken by a fire alarm that required everyone in the hotel to evacuate. After that, I caught a taxi in to town for the dinner at the ha ha Bar and Grill in Leeds. I ate dinner next to Brian Rossiter and Melvyn Toms.

After dinner, I went back to the hotel and spent the rest of the night socializing in the pub. Another late night, but I had a great time socializing with more people.

The next few entries are from my journal of the 2010 Art of Record Production conference.

Day 3 – Friday 3 December 2010

I woke up at about 9:00AM local. I got cleaned up and went down for the breakfast in the hotel. They had a very nice buffet. At breakfast, I met Heidi Gerber, a grad student from Johns Hopkins University. Heidi was presenting on her research on adult MP3 usage in the first session. We chatted at breakfast and made plans to walk to the University together. I went back up to my room and worked on my presentation. At 11:30, I went down to meet Heidi for lunch, but she was still wrapping up her presentation. She asked if I would give her some feedback, so she ran through her presentation and we discussed it. When I ran back to my room to pick up my laptop, I met Amanda Lewis, a grad student from the University of Western Ontario. We chatted for a few minutes about our areas of research. She had been on the same flight from Amsterdam the day before.

Then, I headed over the Leeds Metropolitan University, which was hosting the conference. I walked over with Heidi, Paul Thébarge from Canada, and Thomas Haines from CCM in Cincinnati. We got there at about 1:00PM, so we had a half an hour to mingle. I went to the room I was presenting in on Saturday to check to technical setup. Read the rest of this entry »

The next few entries are from my journal of the 2010 Art of Record Production conference.

ARP Convention 2010 – Leeds, UK

Day 1 and 2 – Travel

I flew out of Akron Canton Airport on Wednesday afternoon. I had a layover for about four hours in Detroit, so I had some dinner and a drink. My flight for Amsterdam left at about 10:00PM Eastern (22:00).

I arrived in Amsterdam at about 11:00AM local time (5:00 Eastern). We were delayed on the way to the gate and sat on the tarmac for about an hour waiting. I had a layover, so it wasn’t a big deal. Read the rest of this entry »

• Most of my music was rejected for the current scoring project, but my students did much better on their projects this week. #winsomelosesome #

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• For the audio people, @bobbyowsinski has a great series of isolated tracks from some hit recordings on his blog http://bit.ly/xnQ1b #

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• One of the best things about working on good music is waking up with it in your head and not minding. Barber’s Sonata for Piano rocks.

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• Wow. Best part is it all works on my iPhone.
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• Loving my free copy of the Polytune app from @TCElectronic! Thanks! #

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• Interesting, but not really surprising.
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