The Fascinating World of Film Music

Introduction

Welcome to the Fascinating World of Film Music!

My name is Chris Malone and although I am an IT professional by qualification, I have a keen interest in audio engineering and orchestral music composed for films. This site commenced life in 1997 as a means of promoting film scores and the engineers who recorded them. During a period of approximately two years, scores including Star Wars, Alien, North by Northwest and After the Fox were reviewed here and promoted on Flinders University student radio. The site lay dormant for the first few years of the new millennium however has been reactivated to focus specifically on the technical aspects of recording film music. The rather mundane look and feel is somewhat intentional and should provide welcome respite from the flash enabled extravaganzas we are generally subjected to!

Articles and Analyses

Recording the Star Wars Saga
A comprehensive chronicle of the scoring and recording of both the Classic and Prequel Star Wars trilogies.

Recording Engineer Eric Tomlinson
A detailed profile of one of the most prolific and successful film music recording engineers of the 20th century.

Star Wars 30th Anniversary Listening Test ( Adobe PDF 383 KB)
A comparison of existing digital releases of the Star Wars score in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary Box Set together with recommendations for a truly definitive audiophile edition.

Sonograms - Comparing Star Wars Music Releases
High resolution versions of sonograms (spectrograms) contained in documents elsewhere on this site.

Superman Blue Box Listening Test ( Adobe PDF 210 KB)
A review of Film Score Monthly's Superman Blue Box set released in February 2008. Raises questions about what the term "restoration" really means.

Contact

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