New Job Ahoy

I have just been asked to work for Lisnmusic.com. It was a fantastic surprise and a great honour to be asked. I will be continuing my work as a sound designer, composer and producer but for now any work I do will be under the name Lisn as we will really be pushing the bespoke composition side of the company over the next 12 months as well as syncing a load of the tracks from our catalogue.

Anyone who is interested can still get me on my thomsonaudio email but also on my Lisn one Andy@lisnmusic.com.

Also for your interest there is a screenshot of my new business cards below.


Andy

The Cleaner

I have officially signed off the composition for the short film 'The Cleaner'.

I will post the film here once it has been graded and fully finished.


Andy

New Year, New Gear

2011 is only 5 days old and it's already looking promising.

I am coming to the deadline for my project with Yum Yum London, keep track of this blog for the finished article. I have also been approached to work on my first short film of the year, details to follow.

All this fun has led me to an exciting studio upgrade. For anyone who is interested I have ordered myself the Allen and Heath Zed-R16, http://www.allen-heath.co.uk/zed/zed-R16.asp

I can't wait for Friday (delivery day).


I Hope everyone is having a good start to the year.

Andy

Yum Yum

This week has seen me start working on music and sound design for an animation for the creative agency Young. I am working on the project with the fantastic folks at Yum Yum London http://www.yumyumlondon.com/ Check out their site to see some of their brilliant work.

More info to follow.

A new week a new pitch.

So this morning has seen me pitch for a forthcoming Max Factor advert. The commercial will be licensed for worldwide TV and internet for 1 year.

Once again in conjunction with the top folk at www.thesoundworks.co.uk

Updates on this and still outstanding pitches will follow so if your interested keep you eyes on this blog.


Andy

It's Pitch O'Clock

It looks like November is going to be full of pitches for me.

So far I have completed a pitch for a yell.com online advertisement (below), and I will be pitching to Sony for a Little Big Planet 2 ad/promo later today.

The concept is extremely exciting, a stop frame based animation of gaming through the ages, with a wild soundtrack which evolves over 90 seconds from 8 bit to modern day gaming, passing through Battlezone, Street Fighter, Micro Machines, Tomb Raider and many more style of track.  The audio is crazy sounding and I will post it up once I know the outcome of the pitch.

These pitches have been done in collaboration with the fantastic guys at www.thesoundworks.co.uk



Brief required up front, beat driven track with crunchy guitars.

Max for Live Device

Two posts in a day, it's been a while since that happened.

So I have just built a new Max for Live device.

The device allows you to control any element of live from a PS3 Controller.  For mac primarily as it's really simple to connect your controller via some sneaky bluetooth.

Super simple patch that uses the 'hi' object so you could alter it to be used with any human interface device.   Currently only maps x-y axis for left and right analogue, R1, R2, L1 and L2.  All the info for mapping the rest of the controls is in that patch.

Go here for more info and to download the patch http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=419
Thanks to Amounra for the main graft on the build.

Andy