ASTURSCORE (asturscore.com)

• J. EDGAR (Clint Eastwood)

 BSO SPIRIT (bsospirit.com)

•  MAN TO MAN (Patrick Doyle)

FILM MUSIC: THE NEGLECTED ART (sdtom.wordpress.com)

• FILM MUSIC 2011 (Various Artists)

FILMTRACKS (filmtracks.com)

• BACK TO GAYA (Michael Kamen)
• BIG MIRACLE (Cliff Eidelman)
• THE GREY (Marc Streitenfeld)
• UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (Paul Haslinger)

MAINTITLES (maintitles.net)

• MINECRAFT – VOLUME ALPHA (C418)

 MOVIE WAVE (movie-wave.net)

• CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 (Brian Tyler)
• HAYWIRE (David Holmes)
• ONE FOR THE MONEY (Deborah Lurie)
• STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (Leonard Rosenman)
  

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.com)

• KATMANDÚ, UN ESPEJO EN EL CIELO – Pascal Gaigne
• EL CAPITÁN TRUENO Y EL SANTO GRIAL – Luis Ivars
• THE BIRTHDAY – Fernando Velázquez
• BOSQUE DE SOMBRAS – Fernando Velázquez
• ARRUGAS – Nani García
  

SOUNDTRACKBEAT (soundtrackbeat.com)

• THE DARKEST HOUR (Tyler Bates)
• MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Michael Giacchino)
• WAR HORSE (John Williams)

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• THE DARKEST HOUR (Tyler Bates)
• FILM MUSIC 2011

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PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS

CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO SHOW (cinematicsound.net)

• The Best Scores of the New Millennium
  

FILM SCORE FOCUS (filmscorefocus.org)

• 40 Years of Missing Max featuring scores from legendary composer Max Steiner including KING KONG, A SUMMER PLACE, THE SEARCHERS and more.  Tune in live Friday February 3rd at 7pm (CST) on 89.5 KMFA Austin, Texas or on-line at kmfa.org

SOUNDS AND SIGHTS OF CINEMA (dvdverdictpresents.com)

• The Best Film Scores of 2011 (Part One)

TRACKSOUNDS: THE SOUNDCAST (tracksounds.com)

• Oscars:  I Think There Is A Buzz.  The panel chats about the awards season and the recent Academy Award nominations.

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INTERVIEWS

MUNDOBSO (mundobdso.wordpress.com)

• Interview with Pascal Gaigne

RUNMOVIES (runmovies.eu)

• Interview with Marc Vaillo
• Interview with Lucas Vidal
• Interview with Luis Ivars
  

SCORENOTES (scorenotes.com)

• An audio interview with composer Andrew Lockington
  

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ARTICLES

RANDALL LARSON’S SOUNDTRAX (buysoundtrax.com)

• Randall Larson interviews Paul Haslinger and reviews such titles as ANIMALS UNITED (David Newman), BACK TO GAYA (Kamen), BIG MIRACLE (Eidelman), DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Paxton), FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (Morricone), FRANTIC (Morricone), FRIDAY THE 13TH PARTS I-VI (Manfredini), THE GREY (Streitenfeld), THE INNKEEPERS (Grace), ONE FOR THE MONEY (Lurie), REAL STEEL(Elfman)

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.wordpress.com)

• Remembering Bingen Mendizabal’s La Madre Muerta

BSO SPIRIT (bsospirit.com)

• CONTAGION (Cliff Martinez)
• SHERLOCK HOMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Hans Zimmer)
• DOLPHIN TALE (Mark Isham)
• GAME OF THRONES (Ramin Djawadi)
• HUGO (Howard Shore)
• LA LIGNE DROITE (Patrick Doyle)
• MARS NEEDS MOMS (John Powell)
• THE TEMPEST (Elliot Goldenthal)

FILM MUSIC: THE NEGLECTED ART (sdtom.wordpress.com)

• BACK TO GAYA (Michael Kamen)

FILMTRACKS (filmtracks.com)

• ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (Harry Gregson-Williams)
• BATMAN FOREVER (Elliot Goldenthal)
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Alberto Iglesias)

MAINTITLES (maintitles.net)

• MARS NEEDS MOMS (John Powell)
• RIO (John Powell)

MOVIE MUSIC UK (moviemusicuk.us)

• CONAN THE DESTROYER (Basil Poledouris)
• THE IRON LADY (Thomas Newman)

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.com)

• CHICO & RITA (Bebo Valdés)
• SI, PERO NO LO SOY (Fernando Velázquez)
• COPITO DE NIEVE (Zacarías M. De la Riva)
• LA CHISPA DE LA VIDA (Joan Valent)

ONE MOVIE, FIVE VIEWS (onemoviefiveviews.wordpress.com)

• JOYFUL NOISE (Various Artists)

SCORENOTES (scorenotes.com)

• JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (Andrew Lockington)

SOUNDTRACKBEAT (soundtrackbeat.com)

• A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (William Ross)
• THE IRON LADY (Thomas Newman)
• REAL STEEL (Danny Elfman)
• SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Hans Zimmer)

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (Paul Haslinger)
• TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Alberto Iglesias)

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PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS

FILM MUSIC MAGAZINE (filmmusicmag.com)

• On The Score presents a new audio interview with BIG MIRACLE composer Cliff Eidelman and director Ken Kwapis. (On-Demand)
  

FILM SCORE FOCUS (filmscorefocus.org)

• Music from the Animated World of Bugs featuring The Ant Bully, A Bug’s Life, Antz and more.  Tune in Friday January 27^th at 7pm (CST) on 89.5 KMFA Austin, Texas or on-line at kmfa.org
  

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INTERVIEWS

ASTURSCORE (asturscore.com)

• A video interview with composer Bear McCreary

BSO SPIRIT (bsospirit.com)

• Interview with Michael McCann
  

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.wordpress.com)

• An Interview with Nani Garcia

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• A video interview with composer Cliff Martinez at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
  

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ARTICLES

AIN’T IT COOL NEWS (aintitcool.com)

• Scorekeeper’s Top Ten Film Scores of 2011

MOVIE MUSIC UK (moviemusicuk.us)

• Awards Season commentary by Jonathan Broxton

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FILM MUSIC MAGAZINE (filmmusicmag.com)

• MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Michael Giacchino)

FILM MUSIC: THE NEGLECTED ART (sdtom.wordpress.com)

• THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (Bernard Herrmann)
• THE BATTLE OF NERETVA (Bernard Herrmann)

FILMTRACKS (filmtracks.com)

• IN TIME (Craig Armstrong)
• MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Michael Giacchino)
• MAN TO MAN (Patrick Doyle)
• STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (Leonard Rosenman)
• WOLFEN (James Horner)
• THE RESIDENT (John Ottman)

MAINTITLES (maintitles.net)

• THE EXPLORERS (Jerry Goldsmith)
• ANONYMOUS (Thomas Wander and Harald) Kloser

MOVIE WAVE (movie-wave.net)

• FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN (Janes Antonia Cornish)
• THE IDES OF MARCH (Alexandre Desplat)
• WOLFEN (James Horner)
• THE WRONG BOX (John Barry)
• WAR HORSE (John Williams)

TRACKSOUNDS (tracksounds.com)

• IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (Gabriel Yared)
• THE IDES OF MARCH (Alexandre Desplat)

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PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS

SOUNDS AND SIGHTS OF CINEMA (dvdverdictpresents.com)

• A Tribute to the Films of Meryl Streep

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INTERVIEWS

ASTURSCORE (asturscore.com)

• Interview with Lorne Balfe

FILM MUSIC MAGAZINE (filmmusicmag.com)

• Interview with Dickon Hinchiffe

MUNDOBSO (mundobso.wordpress.com)

• Interview with Marc Vaillo
• Interview with Joan Valent
• Interview with Bernardo Bonezzi

SCORENOTES (scorenotes.com)

• Audio Interview with Terence Blanchard

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ARTICLES

ASTURSCORE (asturscore.com)

• Remembering David Whitaker.  Article by IFMCA member Rubén Franco,

FILM MUSIC MAGAZINE (filmmusicmag.com)

• IFMCA member Daniel Schweiger selects his top soundtrack picks for the month of January.

FILM SCORE MONTHLY (filmscoremonthly.com)

• IFMCA member Tim Burden presents an audio feature including a best of Harry Potter suite, interviews with Derek Watkins, James Thatcher and score selections from Arnau Bataller, David Arnold, Conrad Pope, Pinar Toprak, James Brett, Mark McKenzie, William Ross and many others!
• IFMCA member Justin Craig offers a monthly look back at the scores of 2011.

INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION (filmmusiccritics.org)

• Patrick Doyle Cinemagic workshop.  Article by IFMCA member Tim Burden.

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The nominees for the 2011 IFMCA Awards will be announced on Friday, February 10th, 2012, and the winners will be announced a little under two weeks later, on Thursday, February 23rd, three days prior to the 84th Annual Academy Awards.

Music Composition in Film with Patrick Doyle

“Patrick Doyle’s musical output in 2011 has been prolific. Scoring two of the year’s biggest Box Office hits Thor and Rise of the Planet of the Apes further cements his outstanding contribution to film. It’s not just the Hollywood blockbusters he’s contributed to though, the French drama La Ligne Droite and documentary Jig are also graced by his craft. It is precisely this that students will be able to experience, a unique and intimate insight into the world of a top grade film composer. Students will view exclusive footage of scenes from Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Thor. Participants will also get to view a special screening of Disney Pixar’s trailer for Brave (Patrick’s next film music assignment, due for release Summer 2012).

This one-day workshop was coordinated and hosted by IFMCA member, Tim Burden from Film Score Monthly & the Q Radio Network.”

Ifmca's Tim Burden and composer Patrick Doyle

The one day workshop started with my introducing and welcoming Patrick to the students and presenting a 12 minute video showreel which highlighted some of Patrick’s finest moments, including Henry V, Carlito’s Way, Frankenstein, Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, A Little Princess, Hamlet, Thor and Much Ado About Nothing. I then conducted a short Q&A which gave the students and insight into Patrick’s career from his small beginnings, to his top league Hollywood status. To anybody who knows Patrick, he can talk and wherever there is laughter in the room, you can be sure that Pat will be there! His naturally entertaining demeanour was immediately embraced by the teenagers and they were genuinely engrossed in all that he had to say (some of which couldn’t be printed here!)

From left to right: Patrick Doyle, Tim Burden and Maggie Rodford

This was a very interactive workshop, I always ensure that the students are as involved as possible. With this in mind, our students were tasked with bringing along their favourite moment of film music on a USB stick or disc so that we could showcase to the whole group and that individual was to explain what the music and scene it accompanied meant to them. Some examples were The Godfather, Leon, Kung-Fu Panda 2 and Gladiator.

The day continued with Patrick explaining his compositional approach and process, in 4 key stages. The score in question was ‘Thor’.

Stage 1 – Establish Themes, Stage 2 – Explore Themes_Asguard Theme, Stage 3 – Sketch Cue_11m01_EarthToAsgard, Stage 5 – Orchestrate Cue_11m01 earth to asgard

Continuing on the Norse Myths theme, I produced a 5 minute video that told an interesting story of the 3 different compositional approaches to the seminal Thor Kills the Destroyer scene. Essentially this gave the students a unique insight into the demands asked of a composer to adapt their music in accordance to various demands from producer’s and director’s. It was revealing to note how many of the group highlighted that the unused version that Patrick originally wrote (utilising the Sons of Odin theme more that the percussive heavy film version) was more to their liking. Proving yet again that the target audience should never be underestimated when it comes to music and the ‘dumbing down’ of the same.

The final couple of hours of our workshop focused on Pat’s other major film of 2011. Robert Kraft at Fox Music was very helpful and sent me some of the scoring session footage from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, so the student’s were able to see the fun (yet hard work) that all of the music team pour into the final result. Two scenes from the movie in full 5.1 surround sound were also presented so we could chat about the marriage of the final mix of music and sound. The finale of Hamlet was also shown, displaying the dramatic orchestral and choir tour de force, coupled with the sound of Hamlet’s head of stone being destroyed with SFX of hammer crashes. In the case of ‘Apes’ a couple of moments during the Golden Gate Bridge scene featured some deliberate dialling down of strings. Those who know the album well will know the moments i’m referring to.

We ended the day with a further Q&A about advise and tips for the students on how to break into film, tv and game scoring. Patrick and Maggie Rodford (his producer and agent) very much promoted the ‘follow your dream and instincts’ approach and to never be nasty to anybody, as it worked for him and many others!

Many wished to have pictures with Patrick and have CD’s signed (which I arranged for each student courtesy of Varese) and the students felt suitably inspired after seeing the latest trailer for Pixar’s Brave which features some thrilling music that Patrick wrote especially for the trailer (a rare occurrence these days) as a coda to their music-filled day.

Each of the new members have a deep knowledge of the history of film music, casting a sharp light on the developments in the art form, publish their critical views in a variety of media, and show an original array of preferences and favourites. In all, the IFMCA feels enriched by the potential of these excellent journalists, one of whom is our first female member.

Please visit the member’s section for biographies on these, and all our members!

French composer Coulais received his award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature for his work on Océans. Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, the film is an ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe, which explores the issues facing the world as the life beneath the sea comes under threat of extinction. Coulais’ colorful, imaginative score was very well received by film music critics, and beat out works by fellow composers Christophe Beck, Joel Douek, Miguel d’Oliveira, and his own score for Bébés to take home the award.

Coulais is a veteran of the European film scoring scene, having worked on over 150 films since making his debut in 1978. His most internationally recognized works include Microcosmos (1996), The Crimson Rivers (2000), Vidocq (2001), Winged Migration (2001) and Coraline (2009). He is a three-time César Award winner in his native France, and received an Oscar nomination for his song “Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)” from The Chorus in 2005.

Spanish composer Araujo received his award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media for his astonishing work on the Kojima\Konami video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Making use of a 120-piece orchestra and choir, Araujo’s spectacular music for the game was one of the 2010’s overwhelming critical successes, both in the film music world, and in the video game industry, and earmarks the composer as a talent to watch in the future. Araujo, who was also nominated for Breakout Composer of the Year for the same work, received a great deal of publicity in his native Spain following the announcement of his win. The other nominees in the category were Dark Void by Bear McCreary, James Bond 007: Blood Stone by Richard Jacques, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole by Winifred Phillips, and Lego Universe by Brian Tyler.

The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) consists of some of the worlds most diverse members and has been awarding the best in film, tv and game music talent since 2004. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with Úbeda’s Film Music Festival and BSO Spirit.

Being a composer and soundtrack producer in his own right, Mikael has indicated that he wants to avoid a conflict of interests and therefore no longer participates in decision making or voting within the IFMCA . However, he will stay active in the background, as an advisor when needed.

The IFMCA greatly appreciates his work with the IFMCA, his longtime dedication to the art of film music in general, and for the founding of this international film music society in particular, and as such offer him a lifelong membership honoris causa. We hope he may witness the further growth of his, and our, organisation.

View the video with the awarded music by following the link below.