To my surprise, 2011 turned out to be one of the best overall years for new film, TV and video game music in recent memory. 2011 saw the return of John Williams, who scored not one but two films, after a three year hiatus. Pinar Toprak scored the first ever…
PART I On February 8, 2012, five-time Academy Award winner John Williams turned 80 years old. To honour one of the greatest film composers of all time Cinematic Sound is proud to present a mammoth five-part radio series dedicated to Williams. In part one of this special we will be…
Back in early 2010, I had planned to produce a program dedicated to the very best film, TV and video game music composed in the first ten years of the new decade. The script was written but for some reason, I never got around to recording it. Fast forward to…
As some of you might know I'm a proud member of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) - an association of online, print and radio journalists who specialize in writing about original film, television and video game music. In the coming weeks the group will be voting for our…
Just in time for the holidays we here at Cinematic Sound would like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To celebrate this wonderful time of the year we have produced an epic three hour program featuring music from some holiday favorites -…
Not only is Mark McKenzie one of the most in demand orchestrators in Hollywood today but he is an equally talent composer who hasn’t written a film score since Saving Sarah Cane in 2007. But that’s all been remedied with his superb work for a Mexican animated film called El…
This past September Cinematic Sound turned 15 years old. The show debuted on CHMR Cable FM in Hamilton, Ontario in its original two hour format on September 13, 1996 with a playing of John Williams' main title to STAR WARS. And the rest, as they say, is history. To honour…
It has been five years since the last Cinematic Sound Halloween Special but we have resurrected the show from dead and now present over three hours of Halloween-themed movie music for your listening pleasure. On this edition of FILM MUSIC MIX you are going to hear some creepy concert, film,…