Chris.Tilton

Was it your intent to make the CD labels look like boobs? EDIT: Also, I orchestrated the cue where the Enterprise comes out of the clouds and goes after Nero, and there is a huge statement of Nero's theme. Obviously that scene was reedited, and the beginning of it cut, but it wasn't MG's intent to abandon Nero's theme.

Well, there ya go. I don't know why it was taken out though. Who knows. The erhu was recorded at the same time as the orchestra, but was in an iso booth so it could have its own completely separate track. Sorry, let me clarify. The two statments of Nero's theme, one in the Drill cue, and one in the end credits were two separate recordings. Both were in the written music for their respective cues. They sound almost exactly the same because the written music for the Drill cue was taken and put in the end credits while that was being written and/or constructed. Obviously, the credits cue is long and was recorded in sections. Maybe something got cut off while editing the takes together.

This is the cue that had Nero's theme played by the effects enhanced erhu. Maybe they cut it from the film if it's not there, but I remember looking at this scene, now that you describe it, during recording and hearing Nero's theme played on the erhu. This wasn't tracked from anything, but was in the End Credits suite. (The whole end credits suite was performed with nothing tracked in). I think it simply came from the track you refer to, which was then modified slightly with choir and then added into the end credits suite. Bonus Tracks The horn theme wasn't there in the original track. They must have added a horn solo as an option when they recorded the new opening of the film. Since it never made it in the film, they must have just decided not to use it, but put it in for the soundtrack. I added the beefier drums to this track (as well as some other cues) much later after the recording sessions.

I don't remember where it is, but I certainly remember the erhu playing Nero's theme at least a couple times. It's probably in scenes where Nero is in his ship, maybe with Pike and such, but again I'm not sure.

The Erhu was used in several instances for the Romulans, only the Romulan version has had added effects on it (a delay and probably some other minor distortion or EQ). Giacchino did this on purpose because both the Romulans and Vulcans are related.

For as obsessive as you guys are, I am surprised that you missed that the green is Kirk's Theme (slightly altered rhythm) and the yellow as young Spock's theme. That scene is between them afterall. If I recall it's the moment where they split up and young Spock takes Spock Prime's ship, and Kirk goes off to rescue Pike.

Regarding ALIAS, extremely unlikely. There is no market for an ALIAS soundtrack anymore, and it would cost way more than would be made to license the ability to release it from Disney. As for that STAR TREK thread, you all have WAY too much time on your hands. Who cares!?!?! Go outside!

Before you go on thinking FOX is lame when it comes to FRINGE, let me explain. The content of episode 20 was always planned as the finale. There was a deal for 21 episodes, but as the schedule got tighter and tighter, they realized that there would be insufficient time to shoot and edit the finale (as ep 21) in time for the airdate, so they simply retooled the remaining episodes to end at episode 20 instead of 21. Since there was still an order for 21 episodes, they wrote, shot and edited the 21st episode (with a more relaxed schedule) with plans for it to air sometime in season 2. Also, how can you say the finale had a lack of a big ending? It doesn't get more "HOLY SHIT!" than

AmazonMP3 - Oct. 28 Nettwerk - Oct. 28 iTunes - Nov 4th

The art for La Lune and Sunday Man are now embedded in the mp3s, you'll have to redownload the the soundtrack and replace the ones you currently have. Jumper, not yet, but soon.

There was a snag or something (I don't really know the details) which caused the submission process to start over. It's looking more likely that it'll come out in October now.

Fracture was done by Giacchino, me, and Chad Seiter. No idea about a soundtrack release.

It's not really your fault that the site exists. And actually, I'd think the site would be pretty neat if it was all about making old game music available that may or may not have ever been available previously. The mentality of most of those people though, their staunch position on their perceived God given right to have music for free, just because they want it or "need" it, just baffles me beyond belief. The world isn't going to come crumbling down if they don't have, or don't listen, to a particular soundtrack.

Or you could just tell people to go directly to the post on the most visited illegal video game music pirating site that you are participating in. Then again, I suppose it's against TOS to just post that link here. To clarify though, I don't have too much of a problem for people ripping game discs to get music that's not available, and likely will never be available (although that isn't exactly legal either), but that site is a haven for cheap tightwads who post commercially available music because, even though they can't afford to pay rent, they absolutely MUST have soundtracks at all costs.

the game score does run for 53 minutes, and the tracklist in sundtrack.net is 56. I dont know if they are typos or some tracks are expanded by a few seconds The official release will be 3.5 min longer. Some tracks are expanded (and the album is properly mastered).

Send your emails to Brash Entertainment and Disney respectively.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog is great. People should buy it.

For Mercenaries 2, I employed 353,028 orchestrators. I had each one orchestrate one bar of music in any given cue, and sometimes I would have one orchestrator do the winds and strings, while the other did the brass and percussion. Occasionally I'd bring in some extra help to work out the triangle parts.

No, Michael and I co-composed only the main theme, I did the rest.

lostpedia.com has your answers.

Fantastic performance! This is great. You should move to LA and perform on scores and stuff. I wonder if you thought about panning several of the tracks more widely left and right so we could distinguish the lines a little more, and so it would sound less mono. Great work though. Me = impressed.