Sponsored by BMI and directed by composer Rick Baitz, this NYC-based program selects a small number of emerging film composers and provides a series of workshops, followed by continued consultation and development

Bennett Lincoff’s Comments on Music Licensing Bennett Lincoff’s comments to the US Copyright office on a new system of music licensing

Interview with Marc Streitenfeld Continuing to explore alien worlds and the nature of android parenting in “Raised by Wolves”

Interview with Will Bates Piloting an alternative musical route to Mars while staying on earth with “Away”

Interview with Nate Wonder and Roman Gianarthur Irvin Two brothers score with old school to blow up the white supremacist “Antebellum”

College Film Scoring Programs: Selling The Dream vs. Disclosing Reality Mark Northam looks at college film scoring programs and how realistic they are about the business

Auganizer Every once in a while, some clever people come up with a solution to an issue that the DAW developers simply have not addressed

VSL’s New MIRx Makes VSL Mixing a Cinch Peter Alexander reviews Vienna Symphonic Library’s New MIRx

Audio: Interview with Thomas Newman Film music journalist Daniel Schweiger interviews composer THOMAS NEWMAN, whose music ventures through the horrors and heroism of WW1’s front lines in 1917

Orchestration: The Devil Is In The Details, Part 2 Ron Hess discusses how you’ll never achieve the Holy Grail of a perfect sight reading if your notation doesn’t tell each musician at a glance how it’s supposed to sound

CITY OF GHOSTS (and resilient grit) From its first ethereal tones, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s (Oscar-nominated CARTEL LAND) CITY OF GHOSTS music score and sound design achieves a hauntingly simultaneous balance of nearly-imperceptible presence and atmospheric poignancy

Soundtrack Picks: BAD EDUCATION is the top soundtrack to own for JUNE, 2020 Also worth picking up: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, DA 5 BLOODS, DEATH RACE 2000, FAR AND AWAY, LEGENDS OF THE FALL, THE STORY OF O2, VILLAIN, WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS, WESTWORLD SEASON 3 and many more!

Benefits of Joining Overseas Royalty Societies Mark Holden discusses the financial benefits to composers of joining overseas royalty societies