Rick Reifenstein

My wife and I watched "The Book of Eli" the other evening. I really liked the film. What really stood out for me of course was the music. The music was stark and other worldly, which fit with the visuals on the screen. What was really great was that the music was done by Atticus Ross, who until now was only known by the fans of industrial electronic fans. No I can't say that a small music budget was the reason for choosing Atticus Ross as the composer, but it got me thinking about how we are seeing more and more relative newcomers to the motion picture scoring scene. Could it be that with budgets for movies getting smaller and smaller that producers and directors are looking into untapped resources for music? Maybe forcing them out of the traditional "Hollywood" score and venture into the world of the independent musician with a room fool of synths, guitars, drums, and other weird auditory oddities? The result is not only a smaller expense report in the area of ...

Good weekend in the studio. I needed to get back to writing new music for my licensing catalog. I needed to write in a new direction. I wanted to get back in touch with my progressive rock and electronic music background and combine that with the latest direction I've taken with writing music for film and TV. I started with good hard rock n roll drums. I had been wanting to get back into writing guitar based modern progressive rock riffs again, so I started there. I had borrowed the main riff from a song I wrote back in the early 90's with the rock band Prodigy. I was able to do with this cue what I wasn't able to do back when I performed this song originally which was add a string section, synths, and layers of arp'd percussive synth. I'm very happy with the result. I wanted soemthing Tool "like" but with my personality and I think I got that. What's next? No new projects in the studio yet. I am continuing to write for my licensing catalog. Mixin...