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Ah yes, music.  A wonderful hobby but a bugger of a place to make a living!

PLL, BFG

Les Mizzell wrote:

> >  Nobody seems to know synths exist or how to use them.
>
> <begin rant>
>
> There's also this "thing" that you have to get by with the public that
> often hires musicians/composers.
>
> I've lost scoring jobs before, and when I called to ask why:
>
> "Oh, you mainly use synths. We didn't want that."
>
> "You didn't listen to the demo I sent you? That was a real 24 piece
> orchestra playing that."
>
> "We heard you mainly used synths and assumed that's what it was. We
> needed something that sounded organic for our score. No synths. That was
> a beautiful piece, but we thought it was synths.".
>
> "So, if you can't tell the difference between synths and other
> instruments, what's the difference?"
>
> "Uhhhhh.... we just didn't want synths."
>
> So, the show in question comes out, and they've resorted to LIBRARY
> MUSIC instead.
>
> "We needed a big sound, and found we couldn't get it with the $500
> budget we had. Besides, we don't have to pay royalties for this library
> music."
>
> Idiots...
>
>
> At this point, all the video editors in town are now also the
> "composers". They all have Apple Garage Band. Anybody here that used to
> earn a living writing music has moved elsewhere or gotten into something
> else.
>
>
> </end rant>
>
> -- 
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> Les Mizzell
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