Well, as some of you may know by now, I didn’t make it into the 2nd round of the TILT: The Movie scoring contest. I don’t know what percentage of votes I got, but I wasn’t in the top 3, so therefore didn’t move on to the next round to be considered for the job. Regardless, I enjoyed the process, and have found some people that I’d like to stay in contact with and potentially work with in the future if given the opportunity. I appreciate your votes for me and all of the great feedback I got! It was great to hear what you thought of my entry, and I hope to share more of my music with you soon. I will be doing a blog post about my process for the TILT scoring contest entry, but I don’t know if I will get it done this month. I should be able to!
What else is going on?
Movie:
Fortunately, I have a lot going on and that I am going to be doing within the next couple months. The movie I’ve been composing for: Abandoned Allies; is getting closer and closer to editing being complete. This means that once all the editing is done that I will be working with the director to work out the music and thematic development to help tell the story. I’m really excited about this, and since being on the project since January *as the composer* It has been really exciting to see the editing come together and the movie’s form start to take place! Camden has been a pleasure to work with, and I’m excited about getting closer to this project finishing so that we can start to get it out.
First Choral Piece:
I decided that it was time to write a choral piece. So, I started to go through the people that I chat with a regular basis with on twitter and I stumbled upon (@missxkaren) and her work. I contacted her and asked her if she would be interested in doing a collaboration piece. She has been writing poetry for years, and has written over 200 poems! So, since we started talking about it, I have started composing a piece called “Frozen in Time” for SATB based on a poem by Karen-Maeby McCormick. I’m excited about this project, and will be talking with local choral directors to see if I can possibly get it performed!
National Band Association Composers Competition:
I will be entering in the 2012 NBA Composers competition and to be prepared for that I am going to have to write as much of the piece as I can this year so that I can work on getting it performed and recorded so that I’m able to submit it for the contest! I’ve started doing my preliminary research and I know a band director who will be willing to play it after it is done J I have an idea of what I’m going to do with it, I just need to make sure that I can execute it well.
Flute + Electronics set:
Currently, this project is on hold. I don’t have the time to invest in it with all of the other projects I have going on. I hope to complete it by the end of next year though!
Flute quartet:
I will finish the flute quartet this year. I have the first movement done and now I am just waiting for the movie project to be over so I can finish it. I’m very pleased with the first movement, and you can hear a sample of it in my music section of my web page!
Potential collaborations:
I have started to set up potential collaborations with some other people I know on twitter. Some composers, and some visual artists. I hope that these end up happening after I’m done with the movie and that as I continue to finish projects that I continue to add them. I’ve started to realize that I really like working with people (I know this sounds funny, but I’ve spent a lot of time as a composer locked away by myself, and not sharing my work!).
CompTIA A+ Certification:
I start my 2nd class for my certification on the 16th of this month! I’m ready for the classes to be over and to have the certification, because I haven’t been able to give it the time I’ve really needed to this year with the composition stuff. It is going to continue to be a challenge for me to balance my composition, studies, and personal/family life!
I will feel much better about things overall once I get my first tech certification done so that I can start to prepare for the others that I have planned out. I really want to get into a career that can and will help support my artistic endeavors and I feel the tech industry is the right one for me. I just need to make it happen and continue to move forward!
Thanks for your support as always,
Kyle
