Rick Reifenstein

April 21 “Amelia” soundtrack in the studio… Started working on the soundtrack for my brothers film “Amelia” this weekend. The title track started a little slow. The music I had written before the session sounded forced. I kept “plunking” away at it and eventually came up with a lovely yet haunting 3/4 piece that worked very well. Chris said it sounded “exactly like what I was hearing in my head!” Monday’s session was the start of the underscore recording. The film has no dialogue. It’s all voice over so the music is constant and helps support the action. So I wrote and recorded about 2 minutes of music in about 4 hours! Some of the cues are as short as 8 seconds; yet contain a dozen tracks. i got to have some fun with one cue that features Amelia finding the magic dragon statue. I thought synthesizers would convey the idea that this thing had magic. I wanted it to be mysterious sounding but not scary. It was a fine line, however it turned out very well. Chris again was very happy and a...

I received word today that giant boxes have arrived at the offices of Healing Circle Message HQ in California. The instructional home message DVD is complete. This is exciting. I have 5 songs on the disc all of which will be made available in CD form in the near future. In the meantime support me by supporting the projects I have written music for. If you interested in the DVD visit: Therapeutic Massage at Home: Learn to Rub People the RIGHT way! www.healingcirclemassage.com/instructional_dvd I completed 2 new tracks for a super ambient space electronic CD I'm working on. I'll be releasing on my own through Amazon. Sunday and Monday I'll be working on recording the score for Chris Reifenstein's short film titled "Amelia". Also stay tuned for some Space Rock coming under the name "Control Z".

April 02 Film making Brother and other stuff… When my brother was down visiting a couple of weekends ago; he shot scenes for a short movie he quickly wrote that would center around 2 sisters. The Sisters Reifenstein were of course the little stars that were stars of the film. The photos were from the scene where the oldest sister discovers a mysterious object that gives her powers of precognition. Now she has to determine does she use her power to save her bratty little sister from harm? Stay tuned and you’ll find out. View Full Album On the music front; the soundtrack for the Healing Circle DVD has all been sent to California and is being edited into the DVD as I write this. So far they will use 5 of the songs. Healing Circle will also be producing a companion CD for sale along with the DVD. I’ll need to write some more songs to fill out the DVD. I should only need 10 more minutes. My day job has been busy this week. We have a new exhibit centered on Edgar Allen Poe which has generate...