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 The Hollywood Edge: Quality SFX From
Film Sound's Best
GMP Music: Cruising in the
Midwest
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The Hollywood Edge: Quality
SFX
From Film Sound's Best
In a way, it seems like such a natural idea: Take the
myriad effects that are produced by top sound professionals for feature
films and make them available to media producers and sound designers in
the form of sound effects libraries. Yet surprisingly few sound
editorial and post houses are in the library business. One that has
enjoyed tremendous success, however, is The Hollywood
Edge, now in its 16th year of operation. It was started by
Oscar-winning sound designers/supervisors Lon Bender and Wylie Stateman
of film sound giant Soundelux, which these days is an arm of Ascent Media.
"In the beginning, Lon and Wylie were basically looking for a way to
get
their excellent material out to the public," says the company's
managing
director, John Moran, "and I don't think they realized how much demand
there would be. Now here we are at about 350 CDs in 15 1/2 years, and
the company is going stronger than ever." To read the rest of this
article, click here.
Inside Info
GMP Music: Cruising in the
Midwest
"I'm a born production music creator," says Gene
Michael, founder and principal composer for GMP Music—a
division of Gene Michael Productions—based in Buchanan, Mich.
(about 20 minutes from South Bend, Ind.). "Some people have asked me,
'Why didn't you chase the pop thing, like so many other musicians?'
Well, I did for a little bit, but I hate touring and it turns out that
production music is something I'm pretty good at, so this is the
perfect
situation for me and my ADD mentality."
Growing up, Michael took violin, cello, and flute lessons, and picked
up
other instruments on his own. "[I] naturally gravitated into
composition," he says. "I always enjoyed instrumental music. I think I
started writing instrumental music when I was an early teenager, maybe
even before. But I listen to everything—I enjoy classical to heavy
metal. I'm a big fan of film music, too, and that's definitely
influenced the types of things I write for the library." Michael cites
Danny Elfman as his favorite current film composer. But he says, "Film
music is so wide open now; it's great! It can be anything from Nine
Inch
Nails to Randy Newman; it's very broad and colorful." To read the
rest of this article, click here.
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