On November 24th (I incorrectly say November 26th on the show), legendary film music recording engineer, Eric Tomlinson, passed away at the age of 84. Tomlinson worked with the likes of John Barry, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Michael Kamen and John Williams on such films as FROM RUSSIA…
Cinematic Sound Radio turned 19 years old this past September. Last year I missed my 18th anniversary and almost missed my bronze anniversary this year. However, I managed to find a bit of time to produce this very program for you and it's one I'm quite excited about. Like I…
Summer is coming to an end and since we haven't presented a new releases program in 6 months we thought it would be a good time to review some of the best (and not so good) new film and TV scores released during the spring and summer of 2015. During…
On Saturday, September 12th, at midnight I was honoured to be apart of Robert Daniels' VISIONS IN SOUND 780th episode. Robert kindly invited me onto his fantastic Kitchener, Ontario based film music radio program to chat film, TV and video game music and play some of our favourite scores. We chatted…
On June 22, 2015, the world lost one of its greatest film music heroes when James Horner's S-312 Tucano MK1 turboprop crashed 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. He was 61 years old. Most fans discovered the news through his assistant, Sylvia Patricia, who said the following on her Facebook page…
This week in the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO SPOTLIGHT we will be listening to the music of five composers who I would LOVE to see have a crack at scoring a major Hollywood film. These five composers write the type of music that fell in love with when I was a kid; melodic,…
Back in 2002, while I was still on the air at C101.5 FM, I produced a three hour tribute to one of my favourite composers, Mark McKenzie. I've been meaning to add that show to the archive but when I went searching for the files I couldn't find them. Fast forward…
Welcome to CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO's Top 15 Scores of 2014 countdown. 2014 turned out of be yet another great year for film, TV and video game scores - especially video game scores, two of which take two of the top five spots in our countdown. Hans Zimmer's output was…