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Hello! Sorry if this sounds a bit PR-ish, i've been helping the composer get the word out about this new work - it's just a quick post to bring your attention to a really wonderful orchestral / vocal cross-over album which was inspired by music written for a film that ultimately didn't happen: 'The Sound of Gaya'. There's an official Facebook page with lots of audio and video content here, plus an opportunity to win CD's of the album this week: http://www.facebook.com/TheSoundOfGaya and the website is here: http://www.thesoundofgaya.com/ The composer, James Seymour Brett is currently working on Pixar's Planes and has already had a busy 2012, scoring Stephen Frears' 'Lay the Favourite', a couple of French films and he was the Orchestral Music Director for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert in June. He also recently conducted the end title song for 'The Hobbit'. Film Music Site interviewed James about the album recently: http://www.filmmusic...t&id=98&lang=en

I thought I should create a thread for Television music. I really like Star Trek TOS's music, and think that alot of TV shows should have Various composer, instead of just one reign of terror. I also recently discovered Tim Jones music for "Chuck" which, while not a masterpiece, has some good cues.

Koray?

http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/jocathmufrmo.html http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/16523/THE-THING-1000-EDITION-PRE-ORDER/

That's right, unlike Up, this one's coming out on physical CD! http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/exclusive-cars-2-soundtrack-to-feature.html

Interesting pairing eh? But they remind me very much of each other. They both can write the big boomy scores that studios come to expect these days, and yet they do it in a much more sophisticated fashion than these types of scores are written with. McCreary relies more on ethnic instrumentation to deliver that big sound (with the heavy taiko drums, etc.), where John Powell implements more electronics. To me, John Powell still sounds very RCP, but McCreary has developed a sound signature all his own. John Powell I can still predict the next note on, McCreary takes familiar ideas into new directions. I'd honestly say that McCreary's music is probably the most surprising to me these days in terms of how well I can predict what direction a melody or theme will take. And that's something rare. Vote!

I've been wanting to share this with all of you for quite some time... and now I can. Michael has been officially signed as the composer of PIXAR's next animated feature, The Incredibles, directed by Brad Bird (Iron Giant). The film is set to be released November 5th, 2004. -Erik-