SOUND ON SOUND
You might be the next Mozart, but if you can’t meet impossible deadlines, no-one will hear your music on TV.
It’s always vital to give the client what they want. Even if what they want makes no sense.
The ability to take criticism is a vital skill for the media composer. The ability to make sense of it is much harder to learn.
Music for the media isn’t rocket science. It’s far more important than that.
Opportunities to spread your creative wings can arise in the most unlikely jobs.
Surrendering control of your music is never easy, but supplying stems creates myriad new opportunities for disaster.
You can find most things in the world of music for television, but don’t look for logic. Or dignity.
It’s hard to make something new. It’s even harder to make something that’s both new and old.
Power corrupts. And absolute power terrifies...
Everyone’s patience has limits — but as a professional, you should never reach them.