CONDUCTING A FILM MUSIC ORCHESTRAL SCORE part four
This is the last of four tutorials about conducting an orchestra for the purpose of recording a music soundtrack.
Tutorial four
The psychological attitude
You’d ...
ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR part three
This is the third of four tutorials about conducting an orchestra for the purpose of recording a music soundtrack.
Tutorial three
How to be prepared?
The state of mind is ...
CONDUCTING AN ORCHESTRA part two
This is the second of four tutorials about conducting an orchestra for the purpose of recording a music soundtrack.
Tutorial two, the ways to synchronise.
I will not ...

HOW TO CONDUCT MUSIC ? part one
This is the first of four tutorials about conducting an orchestra for the purpose of recording a music soundtrack.
Tutorial one, the gesture
My purpose here ...

HOW TO BECOME A SOUND ENGINEER ?
You would like to be, you are, a sound engineer.
Why will I hire you instead of somebody else?
By Stephane Meer, Head manager of Studio ...

How to make music for films (part one)
1/ The first way to write music for films is global.
2/ You watch the movie from beginning to end.
3/ And then, without watching ...

How to make a hit song ?
1/ hahaha, are you naïve?
There is no recipe, but…
2/ There are ways to INCREASE your chances to make a hit!
3/ Is your song catchy?
When ...

Keyboards versus Orchestra
1/ An orchestra sounds better…or does it?
2/ Do you have enough time to orchestrate?
3/ Did you think about the validation/modification process?
4/ If you can’t pay for a really ...

How to write for cartoon series?
1/ Cartoon music is the art of stop and go
2/ It is also very much based on energy
3/ If you respect those two parameters: “stop ...

Should I accept to work for free?
1/ The worst non-sense I sometimes hear is:
“Don’t devaluate yourself working for free”.
2/ When I was a beginner I had the luck of meeting ...
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Published on March 27th, 2010no comments

This is such a wonderful song! I really love it.
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we ...
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Published on March 25th, 20102 comment

Riverdance is a masterpiece from composer Bill Wheelan.
What I find most amazing in this music, is the way it changes time from binary to ternary in a most natural fashion.
It ...
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Published on March 23rd, 2010no comments

The best Celtic music from Riverdance Caoineadh Cu Chulainn, a Lament played on the uilleann (Elbow) pipes by the famous Davey Spillane.
The is one of the ...
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Published on March 15th, 2010no comments
Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra performing Debussy’s La Mer. Recorded in March, 2007.
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Published on March 7th, 2010no comments

Stravinsky: The Firebird (1910)
from Kashchei’s Infernal dance
and also the lullaby…
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra,
Valery Gergiev
New Year’s Concert at Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall
2006
Toward the wonderful final.
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Published on February 28th, 2010no comments

Rite Of Spring (extract)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader Andrew Haveron
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Barbican Centre London 2007
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Published on February 20th, 2010no comments
INDOCHINE j’étais en studio avec eux, en 1983 je crois, au studio d’aguesseau. Ce qui m’avait frappé alors c’était à quel point PERSONNE n’y croyait, personne ne s’intéressait à eux. ...
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