We left our motel to pay a visit to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I have been there 10 years ago. But apparently a lot has changed in the mean time! It looks like there is a new section with another rim walk and a parking lot. Lot more could be seen there. 10 years ago a lot… Read more »
Today was a very important day for StreamingSoundtracks.com. Our first meet and greet with composers would be held that day. In the morning I helped Stefan and Ad with setting up. Also stuff about future events were discussed. At 2 o’clock the meeting started. We were with eleven SST members and two composers namely Ryan Shore and George Shaw. This… Read more »
We left the hotel early to go to the fan of film music meeting. This was a meeting for around 150 people. On the morning there was panel with composers like Bruce Broughton, Craig Safan, George S. Clinton. We could as an audience ask questions and afterwards there was a signing session with the composers. In the afternoon the same… Read more »
We left thursday morning really early to Los Angeles. The flight went pretty well, a bit long as expected. After landing David was there to greet us. We picked up our rental car, went to the hotel and ate some pizza. Afterwards time to go to bed after a very long day. The next day we went to the reheasal… Read more »
After last night I really need to take it easy in the morning so I skipped the Perfume session at 11.00. After a coffee on the market square and a quick bite we went to a session where Ray Costa, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek , Nancy Knutsen and Maggie Rotford were telling us stories from behind the scenes. The host  and our… Read more »
The second day of the festival was filled with a couple of interesting sessions in the  afternoon. The first session was a discussion about a couple of persons in the film industry talking about soundtracks in general. The second session was  a session about the Alien movies with in the panel Elliot Goldenthal and Robert Townson. In a nutshell it… Read more »
For those who do not know yet: I am back at the Krakow music festival. I arrived on May 23rd after a nice 11 hour drive. The trip went well. I met a lot of friends right away. After a good night sleep we went to the press conference. It was good to see Elliot Goldenthal again after seeing him… Read more »
It was this time of year again. I went skiing with two friends this year. We went to Les Menuires this time. It was our first time there. It is a nice place with lots of appartments near the slopes. Unfortunately the shops and restaurants were in the main part of town and we had to walk a distance… Read more »
Yesterday morning when I came back from work I found this lying on my doormat. I order a lot of CDs on the internet, but I could not recall ordering this one.  Seeing that it was send to ‘Pays Bas’ and that is a Joe Hisaishi CD it was a no-brainer to me to know from whom it was from. Alchemist you… Read more »
As the most of you probably know I have a thing with film music. In the digital age I still prefer my music on those shiny little discs called CDs. After picking it up, I rip them to music files and put them in a box. Â But it always nice to have a ‘hard’ backup on CDs. The four CDs… Read more »