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Here are some articles from the magazine.
A Thousand Roads - score
 :: the making of the score to a beautiful film commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum of the Native American

Know Thy Orchestra
 :: improve your orchestral writing chops, both virtual and fully real

The World Be Your Teacher
 :: we can learn about or art and craft from most any place

Playing in Traffic
 :: my score to the rather epic, six hour mini series based on the movie "Traffic"

Expert Advise
 :: the politics of badly behaved editors as well as some advise on getting more from a virtual studio

Making Shelter Island
 :: with time and budget constraints, how do you deliver the goods?

Catching Up with New Technology
 :: ways I have changed my studio with reasonably priced, but very powerful technology

Creative Flexability
 :: unlike many other musical forms, film music requires a lot of open mindedness in order to succeed

Black Hawk Down
 :: an opportunity to go further into the realm of music creation entirely with software

Change Is Good
 :: not musical changes, but about one of the most fundemental is feared aspects of our lives

Game Music
 :: about the scoring of a new PC game called FreeFall... an unusual approach, scoring the music entirely in software

Video Demos
 :: how to present music to a director by means of a video demo

Film Music And The Brain
 :: fascinating new study into the way our brains work when presented with a great deal of information

"The Hire" BMW films
 :: about a very ambitious and high profile ad campaign created by BMW

Scoring"Exit Wounds"
 :: the topic of my score for the DMX "hip hop" action flick Exit Wounds

Scoring"Traffic"
 :: some of the processes I went through for the soundtrack to Stevedn Soderbergh's film "Traffic"

Ups And Downs
 :: the February 2001 column is a bit more philosophical. It's about change...

The Virtual Studio
 :: new technology of software-based studios

Music For Commercials
 :: the world of music for commercials

Switching Sequencers
 :: my experiences of switching sequencers after so may years of using Opcode's Studio Vision Pro

Carter Burwell
 :: a conversation with the amazing Carter Burwell... best known for his music to the films of Joel and Ethan Coen

The Dub
 :: The dub... where music dialog and effects are blended into the final track heard by the audience

Out With "The In Crowd"
 :: some of the processes I went through on the score for the film "The In Crowd"

Making Soundtracks
 ::  the placement of songs in movies and television. It's a fascinating field that is both creative and very, very political

The Door
 :: as we write, we must always keep in mind how our music will effect the audience

The Future Of Music
 :: the future of music production and interactivity

Conduct Yourself
 :: a select group of books on the art and craft of conducting availble at a discount... web resources for conductors