Jan 11, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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So after over two years,and innumerable delays, Adrian Langley’s film “Donkey” is finally finished! The World Premiere will be held January 27th and 28th at the Rideau Centre Empire Cinema in Ottawa, Ontario. If you’re in the neighbourhood, feel free to come by!
If you can’t make it, or you just can’t wait, you can find a sneak peek at the film here and you can see the trailer here. And since I’m feeling generous, here’s yet ANOTHER sneak peek at score. This cue brings together elements from all the musicians and composers who worked on this score with me. This is “Primal Scream/Best Death Ever” from Donkey:
Jan 1, 2010 Just Stuff, Upcoming Projects Leave a comment
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So here we are at the start of a new decade… It’s with some sadness that I see 2009 pass into history. While it certainly wasn’t an easy year, in retrospect, it was a very important one for me. I got a chance to work on some very interesting projects, FINALLY finished the Donkey soundtrack and score (after about 2+ years) and met some amazing people, and learned a lot about myself and my craft.
2010 is shaping up to be another busy and interesting year. I’m pretty certain that it won’t be easy, but I’m looking forward to the challenges, lessons and rewards. Here’s wishing you and yours a very happy, very productive new Year.
First off… “Day Four” from Parktown Productions starts production on Monday… Buckle up, here we go!
Dec 23, 2009 Just Stuff Leave a comment
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More years ago than I care to think about, my bandmates and I decided to make a Christmas Album for our friends and family as a lark. While combing through the archives, I found my old CD master. Just for fun, here’s Pale.ad and our rendition of the Elvis classic…
03 Santa Bring my Baby Back to Me
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Dec 13, 2009 Just Stuff 2 Comments
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Through my association with Suzemuse, I got asked to handle the audio duties for the TEDxOttawa Conference. For those who don’t know TED stands for “Technology, Entertainment, and Design”, and it’s a conference held each year in Montery, California. It’s designed to bring together thinkers in all three disciplines to discuss, as their slogan says, “Ideas worth sharing”. Of course the problem is that the main TED conference is about $6000 to attend, which puts it out of reach of most. So in addition to making video podcasts of the talks available to all, this year TED decided to start TEDx – smaller local conferences under the aegis of the TED itself.
This years, TEDxOttawa was held on December 6th at the BitHeads Theatre. It was a day of inspiring, thought provoking, indeed, life changing speakers (check out our final speaker Ray Zahab here). But for me one of the high points was Jowi Taylor and “Voyageur” – The Six String Nation Guitar.
“Voyageur” is a piece of true Canadiana – something we can truly be proud of. Not only is constructed from various pieces of Canadian history – from Pierre Trudeau’s Canoe Paddle, to Wayne Gretzky’s hockey stick, to wood from the Golden Spruce- but it is an absolutely AMAZING instrument to play. And I was honored to be able to play it at the After-party. Perhaps the most amazing thing about this guitar though is Jowi himself. While he has seen this instrument played by the who’s who of the Canadian Music scene (it’s the featured instrument on the Canada Day Stage here in Ottawa), to him it’s most exciting when the local musicians get to play. Check out the site, and if you’re able, please make a donation to this wonderful project.
Now if only I could have gotten that guitar on the Donkey score… well maybe the next one…
Jowi Taylor and Myself
Oct 23, 2009 Awards and Kudos Leave a comment
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Hey! Rollbots, the show I Mixed and Sound Supervised (YTV here in Canada, 4Kids in the US) just won a Gemini Award! Congrats to George and Joey on the nod for Best Direction in an Animated Series. Sadly, Serge Cote, my friend, mentor, and composer for the show, didn’t win for the show’s music. Now if only we can convince the Academy to have a separate Sound category for Animation….
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