New Testimonial - Spiritual Contact - Making Dreams Come True!

Hi all,

I've received another testimonial, this time for my work on Spiritual Contact - many thanks to Emerson for such a nice review!

2 years ago we were in pre-production on my first feature film "Spiritual Contact". I talked with several composers about this project, expressing the maximum information about the supernatural events that I had as a kid, as I was looking for a person to be able to convey these feelings through the music.

Not very satisfied, I continued my search posting on several sites, until two weeks later when Andy Stuteley wrote me an e-mail, showing his work and interest in my project. Looking at his website (www.stootzmusic.com) I heard a song that made me call him right away, because it was exactly the style I was looking for.

One-and-a-half years later, the visual part of the film was done, so Andy and I watched the film together – it took us a whole day to review the movie and make notes and comments about it. How I felt after the spiritual attacks, the sounds I heard when my spirit was out of my body ... After 3 months correcting the dialogue, removing the background sounds, correcting and improving the level of audio and creating sound effects and writing and producing the music for the film, Andy sent me the final mix. After I put the audio and video together, I watched, and to be honest I cried with happiness to see how the music fit exactly with the film. Andy has done great work for Spiritual Contact and I strongly recommend him!! 

Thanks for everything mate, you helped me to make my dream come true. 

Big Hug.

Emerson Pinheirowww.atalaiafilms.com

It's coming... Spiritual Contact Soundtrack

Spiritual Contact - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is coming in March 2013

http://andystuteley.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-contact-official-soundtrack

I'll keep you posted when it's fully uploaded... :-)

New Commission - "Jess and James" - Emanation Films

Just got confirmation of the great news that I will be working with the Emanation Films crew again!

Their latest production (estimated a 15 minute short) is currently in pre-prod (think they are casting right now).

Production will be mid-late March 2013 if all goes to plan (and the weather gets better I guess!) so that will fit nicely with the other two productions I'm currently working on: Arc of Violence (short) and The Lost (feature film).

Arc of Violence is almost completed, maybe another week of effort required there, and The Lost will take a little longer but the sound palette is pretty much sorted.

Sometime in the coming weeks I'll also be publishing the official soundtrack to Spiritual Contact - which will be available via Bandcamp (as is The Point of Regret soundtrack).

Busy, busy, busy!

Just sent a draft of the soundtrack for "Mr No" to the producers... I think it's turned out pretty well actually, with a lot of live piano playing and a good mix of classical and contemporary cues. Even had the wife and daughter singing one of the cues over and over, and over again LOL

Have to wait and see what the producers say, but I think we're close to done on Mr No. They have another film "Arc of Violence" that is in editing , so I'll be on that one in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, Elizabeth tells me her shoot for "In Living Memory" went well, so I'm expecting a locked edit within the week, with a target date of the end of May to complete. Can't wait for this as it sounded stunning in the script!

It's so nice to be so busy - I'm working all hours to meet everyone's deadlines and provide the best soundtracks I possibly can, but I wouldn't have it any other way :-)

Spiritual Contact - Sponsor the filmmakers on Indiegogo

Hey all,

The filmmakers at Atalaia Films, who are making Spiritual Contact, have put up a sponsorship request on Indiegogo.

I'm doing the soundtrack for this so I am hopeful you can help them out - If you want to help get the film made, then please visit the link below and sponsor them.

Thanks!

Spiritual Contact - The Movie - sponsor us on Indiegogo

In Loving Memory - New Film Project

Got a really nice email yesterday from Elizabeth (no further details), asking if I would like to provide the soundtrack for a short film she is producing. Reading the script, it's a bit eerie with great imagery, and I love the direction Elizabeth wants the music to take.

Apparently, I was referred by Daniel Owen, who I don't actually know, but my thanks go to him for the referral!

Elizabeth reckons filming will happen this week, with a deadline of the end of the month, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into that, with a quick turnaround!

I'll keep you posted how it goes.

... until then full steam ahead to finish "Mr No" first! (it's 75% done now so another evening and should be complete)

Been a whille...

Hey all,

Sorry it's been a while since I posted, there have been a number of musical and non-musical obstacles (including an operation on my arm) that had to be dealt with over the past 6 months. All done now so more time for projects! :-)

I've got a number of things on the go as follows:

• Spiritual Contact - feature length - about the ghostly sightings of a young boy (music and audio SFX)
• I've just finished the soundtrack for the trailer for this, which is going to be premièred at the writer/producers birthday party this Sunday 15th April!
• DIY- short and quirky comedy about DIY exploits (audio SFX)
• Mr No - short comedy - this has undergone some changes so I'm re-working the score and sound
• The Lost - feature length - this has been a labour of love for Johann Neethling but he's kept going with it and now the picture lock is almost done. I hope to be seeing the final cut in the next few weeks.

Also coming is a short horror called Arc of Violence which is about to finish shooting.

On top of that I am still studying my Cinematic Orchestration course which just keeps on getting better and better!

My article on 60secondscloser.com

The other day I mentioned that I had written an article for 60secondscloser.com ... today it was published so go and check it out!

http://www.60secondscloser.com/post-production/film-music-think-before-you-plink.html

Interview on SFXSOURCE

Just (re)found this interview by SFXSOURCE.COM with Simon Tate about the soundtrack I did for The Point of Regret. Some nice sound bites in there...

Check it out here -> http://www.sfxsource.com/news/index.php/2010/06/08/interview-with-filmmaker-simon-tate-on-post-production-audio/trackback/

My soundtrack to the feature film The Point of Regret - released at last!

The Point of Regret soundtrack - released at last!

First place you can get a digital copy is over at bandcamp... see the audio player below for track list and links to buy and share the news!

The album should be coming to iTunes and Amazon shortly too!

The Point of Regret - Soundtrack

So, on Monday I mentioned something that I was working on, but couldn't say too much... now the cat is out of the bag from the Emanation Films guys post on their Facebook Fan Page

I am working to get my first ever album together and released in time for the same week as the film either hits the shops in DVD format, or the independent theatres around the country. Preferably both will happen and the album will also hit in the nick of time.

I have the artwork to complete (there are some changes being made to keep the branding / style consistent), the mastering to finish and finally, decide on who I am going to distribute the album through. It's not a huge amount of work, but I want to be able to do the final product justice, so will spend a bit of time getting the whole thing right.

TuneCore look favourites at the moment, but I'm putting the feelers out into some forums and asking my fellow composer types for their experiences.

It looks like I can get a global release thru iTunes and Amazon plus a number of other outlets as TuneCore release to some of the key B2B digital media distributors.

Anyway, this is a massive thing for me, it being my first album... and I'm really, really pleased with the music I did for TPOR. Listening back during the mastering sessions, I was surprised how much I'd put into all the tracks. Sometimes when you've heard them 10,000 times, all you hear is how you could improve them, so it was nice to listen to them again after a few months away from them.

It's a busy time working on this release and the other feature film projects ("The Lost" and "Low")... but I wouldn't have it any other way!

Keep yer peepers peeled for the posts!