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"The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury.  Music now more than ever before is a present national need.  There is no better way to express patriotism than through music."
-- Woodrow Wilson, 1914
"Do you write the music?"
No, that's the job of the composer.  The music editor assists the composer by handling all of the technical aspects of the film scoring process. 

This starts by attending a spotting session along with the composer and the director or producer to determine where music is needed, what type of music it should be, and the length of each piece or cue.

Then, the editor supplies detailed timing notes for each scene which will be scored with music.  This way, the composer knows exactly when characters are speaking and when important actions take place -- the gunshot, the kiss, the cut to the next scene, and so forth.

The editor also attends the recording or the scoring session and ensures that the music is in sync with the picture.  Once recorded, the editor adds any other music tracks which may come from other sources (songs, etc.) and prepares for the dubbing or mixing session. 

At the dub, all sound elements--dialog, sound effects, music--are blended by "re-recording mixers" to achieve the final soundtrack.  The editors of each sound element attend along with the director and producer for this most important final step in creating a movie or TV production.
"What are you currently working on?"
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The Simpsons
Is in its 19th season (Whoo Hoo!)


See my Résumé
(.pdf file)

More about Music Editing:
The Auricle and the FAQs about Film Scoring

Sonic Solutions Digital Audio Workstation

The Simpsons soundtrack CD

A very good FAQ list about 
Audio Postproduction
SIMPSONS COMPOSER QUIZ ANSWER
On the home page, there was a quiz:
Excluding Danny Elfman (who wrote the theme music), how many composers have written music for 'The Simpsons' TV series?
The answer is five.  Here they are:

1.)  Richard Gibbs -- wrote the scores for the first season (13 episodes, 7G01-7G13)

2.)  Arthur B. Rubinstein -- wrote scores for two episodes (7F01 "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" and 7F03 "Bart Gets an F")

3.)  Patrick Williams -- wrote the score for 7F02 "Simpson and Delilah"

4.)  Ray Colcord -- wrote the score for 7F08 "Dead Putting Society"

and the current reigning champion,

5.)  Alf Clausen  -- who started with episode 7F04 "Treehouse of Horror" back in October, 1990 and hasn't stopped writing since!

My Internet Movie Database Listing

Some of the productions I have worked on...

Theatrical Features


Television


It's The Pitts!
"The Pitts"

 


CD Soundtracks

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