Composing

Community, Contributor Tips

Amplify Your Vision: Pond5’s Top-Selling Musical Themes

Composing with a theme in mind that hits these top concepts from customer searches is a great way to get heard and potentially increase your sales.

July 3, 2018 / 16 Shares / Comments

Artist Spotlight, Pro Tips

How ‘The Disaster Artist’ Composer Created a Surprisingly Poignant Score

Composer Dave Porter has scored high-profile TV projects including ‘Breaking Bad’ and AMC’s ‘Preacher,’ but making the leap to the big screen for ‘The Disaster Artist’ came with a whole new set of challenges.

December 13, 2017 / 435 Shares / Comments

Artist Spotlight, Inspiration

‘Lion’ Composers O’Halloran and Hauschka on Scoring with Constraints

Composers Dustin O’Halloran and Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) collaborated for the first time on ‘Lion,’ and the results are nothing short of remarkable.

December 2, 2016 / 23 Shares / Comments

Artist Spotlight, Inspiration

How the the Alliance for Women Film Composers Is Changing Hollywood

There’s one filmmaking profession where women are so overlooked, they’re often believed to not exist in the field at all: film music. The Alliance of Women Film Composers was created to rectify that.

November 16, 2016 / 393 Shares / Comments