film sound

April 6, 2018

Catching Signals: Notes On Junkie XL’s Film Scoring Videos

“Hello! This is Tom—Junkie XL—and welcome to Studio Time with Junkie XL, who else?” -Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL Even as YouTube has become a vibrant, open-to-all marketplace for amateur music producers to show off their production workflows (a topic I have been writing about in some forthcoming essay collections), it’s not as often that Continue reading

film sound, YouTube
September 27, 2016

Curating The Week: Film Music, Musical Universals, The Power Of Spotify Playlists

• An article and series of videos about the influence of temp music on film music soundtracks. • An article about musical universals. “Over the last two decades, I have found myself gradually forced to abandon the incommensurability doctrine and accept—at first begrudgingly, but over time with a growing confidence and certainty—the existence of a Continue reading

Curating The Week, film sound, musical universals, Spotify
October 14, 2013

Running Music

(Listening on headphones recommended.) Continue reading

Electronic music, entrainment, field recording, film sound, groovology, mindfulness, music and body movement, perception, running, sensation, soundscapes
January 24, 2011

Microsoundscapes In Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist

For me, there is something magical in just about all animation in how it abstracts reality and transforms it into something other–something more vivid and thus more hyperreal. Sylvain Chomet’s movies The Triplets Of Belleville (2003) and The Illusionist (2010) partake in this tradition while also bringing new things to the viewer’s attention, including, surprisingly enough, a Continue reading

film sound, soundscapes

Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.

film sound

Catching Signals: Notes On Junkie XL’s Film Scoring Videos

Curating The Week: Film Music, Musical Universals, The Power Of Spotify Playlists

Running Music

Microsoundscapes In Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist