The Musical Conquests of Don Jon
In support of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s upcoming directorial debut, DON JON, he and I will be doing a panel tomorrow at the ASCAP I Create Music EXPO. We’ll be talking about our musical and narrative collaborations from Brick to Morgan M. Morgansen to Looper and mainly about the upcoming Don Jon. If you’re in town for the conference, drop by the Dolby Grand Ballroom at 2pm. See you there!
The inner belly of the new Optigan
There’s a cool analysis of Brick’s opening by @gemko (Mike D’Agnelo) at the Onion AV Club.
A handful of people have asked me about that not-quite-xylophone-sounding instrument, which is actually a hollow, chimes-based metallophone (pictured above) which we played by jiggling chopsticks inside. Mike talks about the sound as if someone is “playing frozen, empty milk bottles,” which is my favorite description yet.
And speaking of Brick, if you’re in LA tonight, we’re showing a special double-feature with Looper at The New Beverly. We did it last night and it sold out, but I believe there are still tix left. Rian and I will be there along with Mr. Noah Segan (Dode/Kid Blue), cinematographer Steve Yedlin, and a handful of other regulars. We’ll be doing a Q&A between the pics, so drop by and say hi!
Are you an aspiring composer?
Lots of budding musicians have asked me how to get started in the film world and I always suggest connecting with film students. Well, here’s a filmmaker student at the New York Film Academy looking for a composer for her short film.
Her twitter handle is @banuwadreamer . Hit her up; show her what you’ve got! I’ll let you take it from here… Just doing my job as a media matchmaker :)
Our friends at Atomic Fiction posted a breakdown of their tremendous work on our movie. Very proud to have worked with these folks.
Great breakdown of Looper cityscape VFX by Atomic Fiction set to the final theme Everything Comes Around
Working With A Director
From my “Junkyard Composing” talk about making the music for Brick. In the next slide I talk about the insanity of Rian Johnson.
I’m getting ready to do some more lectures this spring. If you’d like me to come speak at your school or conference (or your house?), let me know.
We are EVERYWHERE!
iTunes, Xbox, PSN, Amazon, Blu, DVD, Redbox, take your pick. We are officially out.
If you’re a fiend for extras, the Blu is your best bet. (Has anyone found the easter egg yet?)
The above image, by the way, is my dad proudly posing at our color timing session with his cameo. Happy New Year!
I bought myself the blu. Highly recommend. There were even some nice things that I hadn’t yet seen!
That’s a wrap on the music mix for Don Jon’s Addiction. It’s only 2am. Not bad.
Fantastic last leg by our assistant Keir, our mix engineer, Mr. Frank Wolf, and of course, big props to Joe, who is doing a ridiculously great job at the helm!
Recording a bit of acoustic guitar for the final cue of Don Jon’s Addiction in the REC Room.
“Piccolo is the Ginsu knife of the orchestra” - Mr. Frank Wolf, hard at work this week on our music mix for Don Jon’s Addiction
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