Sep 24
Fans of botched crime capers, black comedy and snow will frequently rate Fargo as one of the best movies ever made. Equally among critics and casual moviegoers, it has been universally rated as the Coen brothers’ greatest achievement and one of the best films to come out of the nineties. I’m biased, but I would …
Aug 13
Reviewing the soundtrack to a film that is itself based on a rock opera essentially means reviewing the original album, although there are differences between Pink Floyd’s 1979 The Wall double LP and their soundtrack to the 1982 film of the same, mainly in terms of arrangements (a few new songs, too). It certainly is …
Jul 05
As a special treat, we are uploading a small selection of live songs which were filmed, recorded and edited by Lightmaster Studios and were included in the 2 hour concert DVD.
We start with a superb cover of Jessie J’s Price Tag, shown below. The performers are credited in the YouTube description, which can be …
May 17
Putting on a show requires a great deal of organisation. Putting on a show with the word ‘big’ in its title requires considerably more organisation than I’d first bargained for. Not that the end result wasn’t worth it. My producer (shout out to Chris!) first came up with the title The Big Interactive Gig 2012 …
May 11
For our next article in the Free Creativity series we’re taking a look at one of the most widely used yet scarcely talked about programs in the open source environment, the free audio editing suite, Audacity.
Yes, they have a website! And its simple-yet-friendly look is exactly what …
Apr 18
The LMS team was recently asked to handle to production, sound design, recording and filming of a huge public concert in Southern England, the Big Interactive Gig or ‘B.I.G.’ 2012. It’s been one of our biggest undertakings, but also one close to our hearts (I was a performer and the musical director of the show …
Jan 02
Cameron Crowe’s breakthrough biopic about a naive, fifteen year-old rock journalist was one of the unexpected successes of the new millennium, kick-starting Kate Hudson’s career and shedding new light on the intricacies behind seventies classic rock music. Music is central to the movie and it’s characters, and the fact that Crowe was a journalist himself …
Oct 20
What is syncing?
Syncing is the often futile act of attempting to align appropriate music and sound effects with film visuals to near-perfect timing, such to accentuate the parallels between what is happening on-screen and what moods or events are communicated by the musical score.
It is the most difficult, tedious and …
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