We're honored to be joined by special guest Nami Melumad for an in-person event on July 8th, 2022! She will be talking about her career path and the road leading to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! We are also ecstatic to return to in-person events in a new venue! Mimoda Studio is a multi-purpose creative events space in the heart of […]
Join us on July 24th as special guest Maclaine Diemer takes us behind his music for the hit game Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons! End of Dragons is the third expansion for Guild Wars 2, and one that presented a special challenge: how to revisit a fan favorite area from earlier iterations of the […]
Come join us at the Hollywood Bowl for Back to the Future in Concert! We reserved a block of seats in the M1 section and we are happy to offer our members tickets at the group discount price! We will also meet at a picnic area prior to the concert (exact location TBD). $34 each […]
Join us online on Saturday, August 27 at 10am PT for our latest score study, a deep dive into James Horner’s remarkable 1986 score for Aliens. It was Horner’s first Oscar nomination, and a unique one in that much of the score did not make it to the final edit of the movie. We’ll discuss the tension […]
Spend the morning with Booker White (head of music preparation for Walt Disney Studios) and Angel Velez (co-founder of the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive) as they dive into the process of preparing for the podium and addressing the needs of the modern media composer. They will discuss the do's and don'ts of score and […]
Join us on ZOOM on September 17th at 10am PT as for part two of our score study of James Horner's Aliens! No worries if you missed our first session - we invite everyone to jump right in! Our mockup teams will once again prepare excerpts from the score, so we can play back isolated […]
Join us in person in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 8 for a very special event featuring composer Austin Wintory as we dive into his Traveler: A Journey Symphony. Adapted from his score to the video game Journey, the symphony was recently recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices Choir and features cello […]
The ASA is pleased to welcome Abby Savell from LA Percussion Rentals for an in-person workshop on Sunday, October 30th. This hybrid workshop will explore the possibilities of acoustic percussion instruments and how to develop a unique palette of sounds to be used for recording. We are fortunate that Abby will be bringing several instruments […]
On November 5, we return to the music of John Williams with our first-ever look at one of his most memorable and enduring scores, Superman (1978). We’ll take apart the symphonic suite and take a close look at the villain theme, the love theme, and of course the main hero theme. John Williams has proved […]
Join us on Saturday, December 3rd for our first Score Prep Workflow Workshop, where we'll take a look at the techniques and processes our ASA volunteers use to prep the scores we study at our events. We'll dive in-depth into Steinberg's Dorico music notation software and discuss our approach to tempo mapping, note inputting, formatting, […]