Well of course both 17 AGAIN and GHOSTS of GIRLFRIENDS PAST have been released (2 weeks apart). It was rather nice for a while to have all these billboards around the city with my films on them. These 2 scores were the first to be created in my new workshop, and I rather think something has changed in my writing. Or is it just that I am no longer working in my living room?
Meanwhile I have been working on Grant Heslov's new film, which we refer to as GOATS and has an incredible cast including George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. Grant is a very creative and open minded director, so we are having some fun exploring sounds and colors. It's also my first time using Omnisphere (which, for the geeks, is a plug-in synth) and that is both brilliant and baffling. The score is turning out to be lots of strummed instruments, twanged ones, bowed ones, shakers and tamborines and frame drums, and odd sounds from my collection, plus some textural elements and strings. I think. So far.
Reading material- I have 2 books on the go; Chris Jones OUT OF ORBIT about the astronauts that were stranded in space after the Columbia disaster, and Adyashanti's THE END OF YOUR WORLD - really suprised and delighted by this book- I'd never heard of him before reading it.
This weekend I am aiming to have a street strum, or a cappucino catterwalling, which is really just cruising from cafe to cafe with a posse of friends with instruments. Each time we land and get our lattes we can break into soft song; either a lovely sweet and melodious idea, or an intrusive and noxious one, but it's an experiment so we shall see. Culture needs more visceral and immediate experience, less passive, and I'm always interested in this stuff, creating interactions.
We are also aiming to put together a storytelling burlesque musical this year. It's in early stages.
