2020 wasn’t my best year, but it had its moments. Time for a condensed wrap-up! John Williams concert in Vienna. I finally got to see the maestro, after missing him in London in 2019, and now that I had been to concerts of Goldsmith, Horner and Williams, my life was complete and I could –… Continue reading XS Year 2020 wrap-up
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Out now: Goldfall
Yet another “new release” post? Not at all. This is really special and if you’re into orchestral, melodic, romantic filmmusic, you should definitely give this a listen. Particularly because Goldfall has been my first (and hopefully not my last) collaboration with the talented viola/violin player Natalia Wierzbicka a.k.a. Nat Willow. As you know I’m specializing… Continue reading Out now: Goldfall
Have a Coffee with the Arts
I recently discovered a new (?) platform named “Ko-Fi” where people, particularly creators, can have a profile page, publish posts, pictures, audio files and video links. People to visit their pages can “buy them a coffee” by pushing a button which is essentially a donate button. Xanderscores on Ko-Fi So far I’ve not considered going… Continue reading Have a Coffee with the Arts
Always a good idea to check copyright
I was just about to release my new album as “Music Inspired By The Prestige”. As you probably know, my other rescore projects have titles different from the original titles of the movie they are inspired by – for obvious (legal) reasons. In the case of “The Prestige” I thought it wouldn’t be a problem… Continue reading Always a good idea to check copyright
Half-year wrap-up
For me the Covid situation shook up 2020’s first half in different ways. First I had fallen sick for almost two months and lost 1/7 of my weight during that short period of time. Then came lockdown and with it homeschooling which was challenging on another level. With lockdown also came homeworking which meant sitting… Continue reading Half-year wrap-up
Conan “light”
As part of my personal “throwback series” of re-composing/re-arranging compositions that I did in my early years, I’ve recently finished working on “The Temple of the Spidergod”. Why even bother about something I did 20 years go? First of all, I’m emotionally attached to this composition which got me my first composing award back in… Continue reading Conan “light”
Bye bye Cubase…
As are probably many of you, I’m constantly improving my workflows and adjusting my templates. So far this has been a burdensome process, particularly in Cubase which offers practically nothing to manage templates, not even a browse function to select the template you’d like to update. It’s sad. Then I read one of Robin Hoffmann’s… Continue reading Bye bye Cubase…
Speeder Bike Composing Challenge
I don’t know how you spend your days, but for me this lockdown is not exactly a source of inspiration, so I asked on Twitter for suggestions what music to compose to lift my spirits. Erik Woods from Cinematic Sound Radio kindly came up with this: (Click here to watch the original scene which has… Continue reading Speeder Bike Composing Challenge
Alternate Scores on Youtube
In 2019 YT has changed a lot about its policies. They are now much more strict and likely to ban videos if they seem to conflict with copyrights. That’s a problem when it comes to publish rescored material, because, though the music is originally mine, the video content of course isn’t. I’ve thought quite a… Continue reading Alternate Scores on Youtube