Podcast: Finding Your Own Voice

We are all well-aware of exactly how competitive the Oscar’s are. After all, it took Leonardo Di Caprio, one of the greatest actors of our time, several years of nominations before he actually nabbed one. However, when it comes to the category of “Best Soundtrack” you generally don’t expect too much competition since most movies aren’t too known for their soundtrack.

Hey all, Alex here! With the New Year upon us, many strive to accomplish new goals and missions for the year to come. This video is for all the composers who want to get started on music and why it’s never too late to start making music, even without talent.

ME-HA-RY-TE GUIDE TO ARPEGGIATED TEXTURES

It was never supposed to be easy, to create the circumstances in life where your music could be heard, celebrated, and mythicized by millions of movie-goers around the globe. The film industry has been a beautiful and chaotic blessing for all of us, that we honestly can’t think what life and our aspirations would be like without it.

If you’re mostly into making soundtrack music for games, movies, trailers and so on, it’s important that you know how the computer specs need to differ from other music production genres. It’s not only about recording audio and slapping on a few synths and samples. Samples are our bread and butter, and we use a lot of them to get a realistic and huge cinematic sound.

Another great podcast from composer Mike Verta. This one goes into how much you should charge for your work as a freelancer. How much are you worth?