May
17
Putting on a show requires a great deal of organisation. Putting on a show with the word ‘big’ in its title requires considerably more organisation than I’d first bargained for. Not that the end result wasn’t worth it. My producer (shout out to Chris!) first came up with the title The Big Interactive Gig 2012 …
May
14
This is one of my favourite soundtracks for one of my favourite films. Jack Nitzsche, famous for his rock orchestrations and for being Phil Spector’s sideman, is under-appreciated in the film score realm. On Cuckoo’s Nest he stirs up some wonderful, manic, hypnotic, fun, nostalgic and crazy sounds that could not form a more perfect …
May
11
For our next article in the Free Creativity series we’re taking a look at one of the most widely used yet scarcely talked about programs in the open source environment, the free audio editing suite, Audacity.
Yes, they have a website! And its simple-yet-friendly look is exactly what …
May
07
Stanley Kubrick’s swansong Eyes Wide Shut, the so-called erotic thriller, perhaps more aptly described as a ‘psychological rape’ of a movie, was released in 1999 only a handful of days before the director’s death. In it, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise (who were married at the time of filming) play a couple who’s love and …
May
02
A short animation visualising the evolution of the wheel. Made with 3ds Max and Vray.
Verdict:
A simple concept well executed, with nice composition.
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Apr
30
Kill Bill; the first retro martial arts/spaghetti western revenge thriller in two parts to take the world by storm! Uma Thurman goes around making a bloody mess of all the people who fucked her over in this epic, if silly, movie, which is such a stylistic free-for-all that the soundtrack was …
Apr
27
Apr
23
More a classical music compilation than a soundtrack, though some score is present, this selection focuses on the pieces Australian pianist David Helfgott performed at key points in his life. That is, his fictional life in the film Shine, anyway (though I would hope most of the music was chosen because the real Helfgott peformed …
Apr
18
The LMS team was recently asked to handle to production, sound design, recording and filming of a huge public concert in Southern England, the Big Interactive Gig or ‘B.I.G.’ 2012. It’s been one of our biggest undertakings, but also one close to our hearts (I was a performer and the musical director of the show …
Apr
16
Alan Silvestri, fairly well-known for his scores for things like the Back To The Future trilogy and Forest Gump, has his greatest work hidden away in cult treasures like Death Becomes Her, or this little gem that I recently discovered, Identity. Many of the man’s scores are interesting, if formulaic, but this one really grips you …
