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Don’t get too carried away at the idea of seeing your name in lights. For one thing, it might not be your name, exactly...
If you think the life of a media composer is difficult today, spare a thought for the man who invented the job.
Does the concept of ownership mean anything in the software studio?
Today’s TV composers have no choice but to operate a Zen studio. Where’s the fun in that?
The cruise-ship industry is booming, and with it a number of career opportunities — for those who can meet the unique challenges of mixing live sound at sea.
They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it does give you a certain amount of artistic freedom.
If only we could all work together, we could compete against each other more effectively.
There are always loose ends in the murky world of music for the media. And sometimes those loose ends end up tied round your neck.
Is it really still OK for our livelihoods to depend on a small piece of plastic?
The joy of working in an abstract medium is that everyone will find their own meaning in your music.
Increasingly, clients don’t just want your music. They want the opportunity to ruin your music, and waste hours of your life into the bargain.
As media composers, we should be able to turn our hands to anything... shouldn’t we?
When people are paying peanuts, they’ll treat you like a monkey.
The competitors you need to worry about are the ones you haven’t heard of. Yet...
We’d all love to work with the LSO at Abbey Road. But if we don’t have the budget, are we betraying British musicians by looking overseas?
Pretentious hairy people have influenced the world of art in more ways than you might expect.
Being precious about your artistic sensibilities is all very well — as long as you don’t mind no-one ever hearing your music.
The secret of success is to deal with failure in the right way. Which is easier when your failures don’t cost thousands of innocent lives.
The way composers are treated by some clients is just criminal...
Working ‘in the box’ is all very well, but what happens when the box breaks?