Music Composition for the Screen | Marginalia

Before I started at Columbia College Chicago, I was very light on the gear side of things. That has since changed, but I wish I had g..

Gattaca is a ridiculously awesome movie with a ridiculously awesome score. It’s just one of those films that is already great and luc..

I don’t think there is a single film composer out there that would argue that the recording session phase of writing music is the aw..

I thought it would be cool to get the inside scoop from a faculty member in our MFA program. So I interviewed composition professor /..

It’s that time again, where a couple of outside projects have come along. In a wonderful case of synergy, they both are related to Co..

What do you do if your friend wrote a song and wants to record it? What if you think it would be really cool to add percussion, some ..

I grew up in Portland, Oregon. It is the greatest city ever . I had extremely high expectations when I moved to Chicago, and I am pl..

Have you ever seen The Edge, with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin? If you haven’t, go see it now. I don’t even care if you read thi..

The last Chicago semester of the film scoring program is a busy and exciting one. Want to know more about the curriculum this semeste..

Everyone that takes the subway regularly will swear that their line is the best. They’re all wrong. Unless they’re talking about the..