A short film which I provided the music soundtrack for, London: Still Life by artists Wyllie O’Hagan, is screening at the 7th London Short Film Festival. The film will be playing alongside several others around 4:30pm on Saturday 16th January, 2010. Might see you there!

Sat 16th January, 2010 – 4:30pm
Roxy Bar & Screen
128-132 Borough High Street,
London,
SE1 1LB
(Tube: London Bridge – see directions)

In a response to requests to provide full length previews of my music tracks, these are now available in the shop. The previews are of slightly lower quality and interspersed with copyright info every 20 seconds but this is obviously not present on any of the final tracks you buy!

The previews are available for all music tracks including all the royalty free collections (though there might be one or two older tracks still to be updated – should be complete very soon). Hopefully this will help provide you with a better idea if the track is suitable by hearing it in full before you buy.

Listen to the previews in the shop:

http://www.thebluemask.com/shop/

The first episode of the documentary series I recently scored the music for, ‘Evolution: The Grand Experiment‘ by AVC Films, is being broadcast in the UK this week (Wednesday 2nd December to Monday 7th December) on Sky Channel 586. It’s also playing on many other TV channels across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and other countries.

UK: Sky Channel 586 (UCB)
Wed 2nd Dec @ 7.30pm
Thu 3rd Dec @ 10.30am (repeat)
Sun 6th Dec @ 9.30pm (repeat)
Mon 7th Dec @ 3pm (repeat)

The release of the hour long documentary coincides with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Full details of the show, along with worldwide broadcast channels, dates and times can be found here.

If you’re not a Sky subscriber, you can also stream the documentary live from UCB during the transmission times from the UCB website here.

Buy all  six volumes of my Royalty Free music collections and get a 30% discount for a limited time. Simply add each collection to your shopping cart to automatically receive a 30% discount on the total.

That’s 88 tracks (four and a half hours) of royalty free atmospheric and dramatic music that you can use in soundtracks for all your films, documentaries, trailers and video productions (and in up to 1,000 DVD copies per production – extendable on request) and also for use on Youtube/Facebook/Myspace etc. time and again, with no further license fees or costs to pay.

Full price would normally be £239.94 but the total you pay with the discount is just £167.94 – a total saving of £72. Or you can buy each collection individually for just £39.99.

The music ranges from Thomas Newman-style dark and dramatic cinematic piano pieces to atmospheric and organic evolving soundscapes, cinematic atmospheres, melancholy and emotional piano, dark electronica and quirky plucked orchestral pieces. The music makes ideal soundtracks for feature films, documentaries, short films, student films, thrillers, dramas, art films, science/nature/wildlife/travel/human/crime documentaries, trailers, commercials and more.

Click the play buttons below to hear short previews of each of the 6 collections or click the shop link below it to hear full previews of all 88 tracks and buy the music as instant downloads in wav or mp3.

Click here for full details and full length previews of all the Royalty-Free collections in the shop.

My track Scorpio is now available to buy and download from iTunes and eMusic as well as directly from my own mp3 shop (using Paypal). Although my shop is 100% secure as it uses Paypal to process orders, I know many people prefer to buy their music through iTunes so I thought I’d make it available there as an alternative (although I get about an extra 10p if you buy directly from me…)

Scorpio (iTunes)

Scorpio (eMusic)

Scorpio (my mp3 shop – using Paypal)

For promo purposes only: this is the film trailer for the Watchmen movie rescored with an instrumental music track of mine called Scorpio.

Scorpio is a dramatic action track featuring piano, heavy drums and hammered dulcimer and is available to buy as an mp3 download direct from my shop using Paypal, or from iTunes or eMusic:

Buy Scorpio from thebluemask.com

Buy Scorpio (iTunes)

Buy Scorpio (eMusic)

For promo purposes only: this is a test demo advert for the Audi S8 using my instrumental music track Heretik as the background music score.

Heretik is a 30 second track featuring electric guitar and drums that can be bought as an mp3 or licensed for your advert or trailer directly from my music shop:

Buy Heretik from thebluemask.com

Following on from my last video promo clip (Vol.1), here’s some atmospheric time-lapse footage to watch while listening to the music in my Royalty-Free Music Collection Vol.2 for film & documentary makers.

This second collection of royalty free music for film and documentary makers contains 45 minutes of dark dramatic piano and atmospheric ambient royalty free music soundtracks plus a license to use the music in an unlimited number of your own films and documentaries.

You can hear full previews of all the tracks and read full details of the music collection in my shop:

Royalty Free Film & Documentary Music Vol.2: More piano & Atmospheric Beds

Volume 4 of my Royalty Free music series for film and documentary makers is now up in my shop. This collection is aimed at filmmakers looking for dramatic, tense and atmospheric music to use in their dramas and thrillers. The royalty-free license allows filmmakers to use the music in unlimited film or documentary soundtracks without paying anything extra.

You can hear preview clips and instantly purchase the downloadable album directly from my mp3 music shop by clicking the link below:

Royalty-Free Collection Vol.4

For promo purposes only: here’s another ‘rescored’ video, this time for the trailer of John Carpenter’s classic 1982 movie The Thing, rescored with my instrumental music track Outpost 31.

John Carpenter has always been one of my favourite directors (and composers). His soundtracks to films like Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 are iconic genre soundtracks and inseparable from the films.

Outpost 31 was written as a sort of imaginary alternative soundtrack to The Thing -- I always had the epic icy visuals and claustrophobic imagery of the film in the back of my mind when writing this track. You can hear the full preview and buy the track from my mp3 music download shop here:

Buy Outpost 31 mp3 from thebluemask.com shop