An archive of blog entries about music and music production.
William Shatner ‘sings’ Bohemian Rhapsody
It’s unique.
Music
Musical interlude: William Shatner sings “Iron Man”
Isn’t it amazing that despite this rendition of “Iron Man” for his forthcoming album, William Shatner is still totally awesome?
Question of the week: who’s your favourite TV or film composer?
Music’s an often-overlooked aspect of film and TV production. It can create a mood or it can destroy it – indeed sometimes one composer can do both (cf Murray Gold). So today’s quick question is:
Who’s your favourite TV or film composer?
Mine is Clint Mansell, who composed the music from Requiem for a Dream (aka "the music from the Lord of the Rings trailers"), Black Swan and Moon amongst other things. In fact, I don’t know of any time he’s ever produced anything that was less than excellent. But how about you?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog
One for science nerds: the Doctor Who theme played on Tesla coils while two children stand in a Faraday Cage
As the headline says.
[via @thejimsmith]
Thursday’s “sci-fi Treasure Island” news
Film
- Zach Galifianakis joins Ryan Reynolds in R.I.P.D.
- Alyssa Milano joins New Year’s Eve
Music
- White Stripes split
British TV
- 438,000 watch Boardwalk Empire
- Freeview HD sales pass 1.2m [subscription required]
- The History Channel acquires The Kennedys
Canadian TV
- CBC to increase Canadian content [subscription required]
US TV
- CBS picks up celebrity assistants pilot
- NCIS gets another season after record 22.9m watch episode
- Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland, Phillip Glenister, Keith Allen, Rupert Penry-Jones and Eddie Izzard to star in SyFy’s Treasure Island
- Amy Smart joins Shameless, Chloe Webb to guest
- Amber Heard to star in NBC’s Playboy pilot?
- Frasier‘s Peri Gilpin to guest on Hot In Cleveland
- Season 8 for Futurama?
- A trailer for the Criminal Minds spin-off, Suspect Behavior, with Forest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo