Posts by Robin Hoffmann

Welcome to the Daily Film Scoring Bits section of my website! On this page I publish on a more-or-less daily basis small hints, tricks and advices concerning the creation of music especially for film. These hints cover the fields of composition, orchestration and film scoring but also things concerning the workflow in this field, like the working relationship between composer and director etc. If you want to read even more tips, tricks and hints, head over to the DAILY FILM SCORING BITS ARCHIVE 2010 and the DAILY FILM SCORING BITS ARCHIVE 2011! Follow me on Twitter or Facebook to receive the most recent tips 01/20/12: Whenever you write for real orchestra and have a limited session time at hand you need to make sure that you use the limited...

Welcome to the Daily Film Scoring Bits Archive of 2010. If you want to read the most recent Tips, Tricks and Hints, head over to the DAILY FILM SCORING BITS or the DAILY FILM SCORING BITS – ARCHIVE 2010! Follow me on Twitter or Facebook to receive the most recent tips 12/23/11: Double or triple tonguing passages on brass instruments can sound very exciting and fanfaric and can create a great effect of forward motion. Especially quick repetitions can be very exciting. A good example is the beginning of the Star Wars Main Theme before the theme enters where you can hear a lot of repeated notes apart from the fanfaric passages also played by the brass. Also, in this piece we get to hear the fantastic effect of brass doing double tongueing at...

In summer I co-orchestrated a show of the soul singer Seven, his band and the 21st Century Orchestra. As an addition to the mp3 downloads that are available at sevenmusic.ch you can now also download and watch videos from the concert on the same website and on Youtube.   Below you can watch all videos from the show:   I Know/Golden Stairs Yes Keep Your Head Up Wake Up Lisa One...

I’m very happy to announce that soul singer Seven has made available a big bunch of the songs that I co-orchestrated available to download for free from his site. The concert took place in September of this year in the KKL in Lucerne, Switzerland, being sold out two times. To download the songs, head over to www.sevenmusic.ch and click on the Download link at the bottom of the page. The download will be available until January 7th. Below, you can see a video preview of the show.

Communication is essential between the director/producer and the film composer and bad communication often leads to misunderstandings and conflicts. As a director/producer, you should have a rather clear vision about what you want the music to do. It is NOT the most comfortable situation for a composer when he/she’s been told “Well, I don’t know, just do your thing.” and getting complete artistic freedom over the music. This puts one rather in the situation of sitting in front of a white blank canvas, wondering about what to put there. On the other hand, it feels very uncomfortable as well for a composer to constantly feeling pushed by an overly picky director/producer who request for things that they not neccessarily have a full...