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, […]
We had a blast dissecting the villain theme at our first Superman score study event, so much so that we ran out of time! It was an invigorating discussion, focusing on Williams’ clever use of dissonance and scales to represent the characters of Lex Luthor and Otis. On Saturday, December 10th, we'll continue our exploration […]
After our first Workflow Workshop (available at scoringarts.com) which focused on our score prep, we’re offering a second installment of the Workflow Workshop, this time discussing the ASA's approach to creating mockups for our score study events. We will revisit the use of tempo maps, learn how to handle imported MIDI, and explore various tools and […]
Our original Superman event back in November has spawned a trilogy of studies! The symphonic suite from John Williams’s Superman started with the villain theme (Lex Luthor and Otis), which consumed our first study, then the love theme (“Can You Read My Mind”) which occupied our second study, and now we’re on to the third […]