Sundance is a blast! I’ll definitely post a few pictures and what not once I get back and caught up. In the meantime, above is a little behind-the-scenes vid.
I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderfully talented singer named Adjoa at Sundance this week. Amidst a room of endearingly tipsy partygoers, she played this song.
Enjoy. You can help fund her album here (1 day left!):
http://indiegogo.com/adjoaskinner
I’m off to Sundance with my old Chicago friends Eric Bednarowicz and Joe Martinez. I’ll be there the whole time, drop me a line if you want to meet up!
Also, worth a re-post: David Fishel‘s 3-channel video for College Humor’s 2010 “Galactic Empire State of Mind“. Music by yours truly, vocals recorded by James Czeiner in NYC. Fullscreen it and enjoy!
Starting the year off with a bang! I scored & sound-designed this spastic promo for frequent/fantastic collaborators Rebecca Rerdel (motion gfx) and Angeline Gragasin (director). This was my first time working on a project with DP Jeff Katz (his work is awesome, check it out!)
Thank you, moment’s-notice live musicians for breathing so much energy into this music:
Max Crowe – guitar
Brian Mantz – trumpet
Andrew Conrad – bari & tenor sax
All the guys IN this video (Mystery Guitar Man, Mike Diva, DeStorm Power, Corridor Digital) are monstrously creative, hard-working badasses who I have a lot of respect for. Hopefully we did them proud.
And last but not least, special thanks to my pal Steph Belsky for throwing such a fun project our way!
Happy holidays from my blog and I to you!
Thank you Max Crowe, for sending me this, and the neverending stream of guitar riff .wav files.
This week I found myself down for the count with something flu-like, which left me plenty of time to indulge in vimeo/youtube exploration.. so much fun.
Here are a few favorites from what I found:
Overtime: an incredible & moving Jim Henson tribute by Damien Ferrie (thanks Jordan)
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(thanks Angeline)
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(thanks Kerstin)
If you’ve read this blog before, you might know I spend most of my time making music for films & internet shorts (which is a blast). However, for the first time in years I now also have a “strictly for fun” studio project going!
I brought in a great singer to add vocals to one of the tracks and we had so much fun we decided to record something every week. She’s a filmmaker by trade (a gifted one, IMHO) and we even have plans to make videos for as many of these songs as we can.
Here’s where you come in: it turns out neither of us have much legit experience writing lyrics. We figure, why not find a lyricist who cares about words as much as we do about writing/producing/singing? We’re thinking some songs will be more collaborative (we have snippets of words here and there that might be promising starting points..) whereas for others we’d lean on your amazing abilities more.
If that sounds interesting to you, email me with a little info about yourself, and we’ll send you a few snippets of our work-in-progress tracks to see if they pique your interest.
Let’s see what you’ve got, internet. Excited to hear from you!
-Carl
My contact info is up at: sondrol.com
Well hey, a film I posted about last december has finally been released! Congrats to director David Fishel on wrapping up this ambitious 12-minute short. It was a nice challenge making music that pulses, swells, and occasionally waltzes.
Thanks to these very talented musicians (remember Eleanor from last week?) for playing on the score:
Eleanor Weigert – clarinet
Scott Copeland – trumpet
Michael Beach – violin/viola
I must give a shout out to the amazing Frankie Cordero who played and “designed” Felix (you’ll see..) I’ve had much fun working with him in the past too.
I recently collaborated with Richard Howarth on music for the game “Critter Chaos”, available soon on the Apple App Store. It was a treat working with creators Ryan Sandberg and Tim Wood on this, and I look forward to writing an in-depth blog post when it’s released!
For now here’s a peak at our BOSS MUSIC recording session with clarinet extraordinaire Eleanor Weigert.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I recently made this track for Lawrence Daufenbach and the good people at uglysweaterstore.com. They requested something with a “summertime, chill, but kind of trippy” feel that “sounds a little off”. Thus: mellotron drifting in and out of tune, with healthy dose of Waves’ Enigma plugin
I was lucky to have the supremely talented Danielle Birrittella on la-las.
Brian Sacca and Pete Karinen of FCU: Fact Checkers Unit were in studio this week to collaborate on a song for the upcoming Season 2 of the series. It was a treat to work with these guys, who are as hardworking as they are funny.
Don’t want to give away too much of what we worked on, but I will tell you Brian is really good at saying “Damn”…
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