It’s been a fairly crazy few months in Marius land, hence the lack of updates, but I can’t leave everyone in the dark forever so here’s an idea of what I’ve been up to…
Remember that TV gig? Well, I am working hard on scoring the pilot episode as we speak. The Time Traveler (www.thetimetraveler.tv) will hit the broadcast waves sometime later this fall if all goes according to schedule. I can’t show off any music from it for now, but I’m enjoying the process and exploring some new avenues of sound design and instrument manipulation to get the unusual, ethereal, and haunting soundscape just right. Expect more news about this as time goes on.
In other news, I’m now the proud owner of Andrew Keresztes’s fabulous new sampled string library, LASS (www.audiobro.com). I cannot express my love of this library enough, it makes writing for sampled strings a completely different experience. Of course, I also had to do some serious RAM augmenting to my setup to be able to make proper use of it, but it was completely and utterly worth it. For the sake of example, here’s a recent piece put together in an afternoon with my newly revised and expanded orchestral template — including the wonderful LASS library:
I’ve got some new reviews up on tracksounds.com as well, with more on the way. I even got to interview Theodore Shapiro about Year One, which was great. Speaking of talking to composers, my girlfriend and I just recently got back from a quick, one-week, pre-schoolyear sojourn to sunny California where, among other things, I got to meet Christopher Lennertz and chill out with him and Tim Wynn for a bit at their studio. SonicFuel is a great place, and you’d be hard-pressed to find friendlier or more welcoming and generous people. I have pictures to prove it too!
Time to get back to writing, but I promise to be more regular and random with my news postings. See you all soon!
