A.I. COMPOSITION AND MORE (ANDREW MORGAN SMITH S01 E008)
A.I. Composition and More (Andrew Morgan Smith @andrewmorgansmith S01 E008) American veteran composer/multi-instrumentalist proficient in piano, guitar and saxophone, and experienced with the euphonium, trombone, clarinet and flute, who has scored over forty-five feature film and television projects, including Jeepers Creepers 3, You Might Be the Killer and The Perfect One. In the last ten years, he has scored more than Seventy projects across all media. He has also worked with Kevin Manthei to provide additional music for Star Trek Online expansions ‘Victory is Life' and ‘Age of Discovery’ He studied under composers David Newman, Jeff Rona and orchestrator Jack Smalle, classically trained in both composition and music media at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and finalist for the super famous Westworld Scoring competition, with us here today Mr. Andrew Morgan Smith
Andrew shares with us a bit of his process when approaching different style films and some great insight into team-building and composer tools.
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00:00:00 • Teaser intro / AI Composition
00:00:26 • El Composer Podcast Main Theme
00:00:49 • Hola Hello Welcome Intro
00:01:00 • Andrew Morgan Smith Intro / Bio
00:01:54 • How was my intro? Welcome all
00:02:17 • Crazy times
00:02:54 • Shooting and scoring 4 movies back to back during quarantine
00:03:45 • They’re making their money in quantity
00:04:26 • Managing the approach for very different styles of films and projects
00:05:31 • Problem solving when composing
00:07:17 • Not repeating yourself for yourself / Playing in different boxes
00:08:25 • Orchestral score is time-consuming / Pre-production on scores
00:10:00 • Custom templates per movie/managing VEP
00:12:11 • Approaching the orchestral programming and composition
00:14:10 • Sketching with strings / andrewmorgansmith.com
00:15:31 • Percussion CinePerc Cinesamples / Logic and Cubase
00:17:20 • The Spitfire Westworld Competition/Contest
00:23:21 • Catching up on Game of Thrones and Westworld and the Westworld competition scene
00:27:37 • John Williams won’t be around forever
00:28:20 • #dadlife balancing being a dad and a composer
00:30:09 • Music editors / working smarter not harder / assistant composers
00:36:07 • Getting a good music editor / using all your material
00:42:14 • TV composers and their crazy deadlines
00:44:33 • Just because you are not doing what gets done in a classical sense
00:45:23 • Getting in our own way / and finding the right musical solution
00:47:36 • Using loops and modern tools / if it works it works
00:50:26 • AI Composition / iZotope plugins / bringing something unique to the table
00:58:22 • Working with Kevin Manthei / Santa Jaws
01:01:47 • Thank you, Andrew Morgan Smith andrewmorgansmith.com / Andrew’s Youtube Channel
01:04:20 • Clubhouse
01:06:58 • Thank you again, Andrew Morgan Smith, / What’s coming up for you
01:09:22 • Next episode 009 teaser with The Warning
01:10:19 • Outro, thank you
