Posts made in April, 2008

As I promised, I wrote a “short” report about the “Ausbilder Schmidt” scoring sessions in Prague. “You will probably not make it in the booked 2,5 orchestra sessions.” – “Err, well, can we book another half session?” – “Sorry, that’s not possible, we can’t record 12 hours a day, it would just be too exhausting for the musicians and anybody else and the next day after your choir session is already booked by someone else.” – “Oh, err… well? What do we do?” – “Well, we’ll just try our best and hope to get it done.” – That was the situation we were in a few days before April 19th, our arrival day in Prague. I had sent out the score...

Just wanted to let you know that I’m back from recording the “Ausbilder Schmidt” Score in Prague. Everything went really cool, we did some really cool recordings there and had lots of fun. I will post an extensive report with more photos really soon. But until then I need to relax a bit from writing and recording THAT much music:

Allright, I sent out the last score sheets for “Ausbilder Schmidt” to the copyist at 1am this morning. All together it’s 52 minutes of music with some quite challenging cues for the orchestra including some Big-Band-like brass writing and some super evil tracks with Bass Clarinet, Contrabassoon, low Brass etc. The sessions will be on April 20th and 21st, we’re recording 2,5 Sessions with the Orchestra on sunday and half a session with a soprano choir on monday, so yeah, that means 10 hours of extreme concentration on saturday. Quite a task for everybody. Still, I’m really looking forward to it as there are alot of cues that should be lots of fun recording. We will have a bigger line-up this time than with “Tell”, 77...