FILM MUSIC weekly ISSUE 15 • MAY 15, 2007 • Published weekly by Global Media Development Group, Inc. • Publisher: Mark Northam • Editor: Mikael Carlsson • www.filmmusicmag.com AFM Local 47 blasts IMG Artists to NES and new guild represent ‘Video n Local 47 of the American Federation of Musi- ments, weakening our union and eventually Games Live’ cians has warned its members about New Era eliminating the possibility of new-use and n One of the world’s leading artist management Scoring (NES) and the newly-formed Profession- special payments.” NES is currently creating agencies, IMG Artists, has acquired the Euro- al Musicians Guild, saying the groups “threaten a buyout orchestra of LA musicians to com- pean, Asian and Australian representation of to undercut current AFM scales and contracts.” pete for the increasing amount of buyout re- “Video Games Live.” In a front-page story in the current edition cording sessions that are now being recorded Composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, both of the Local 47 newspaper “The Overture,” in Seattle and Europe as the AFM does not game music veterans with a plethora of popular Local 47 says New Era Scoring (NES) “will currently offer buyout recording rates for film games on their resumes, are the producers behind undercut any and all AFM recording agree- and television recording in the USA. p:4 “Video Games Live,” which was created in 2002. p:3 Martinez creates musical paranoia in ‘First Snow’ SCORE OF THE WEEK FIRST SNOW Cliff Martinez n Cliff Martinez has BOB YARI FILM GROUP FILM YARI BOB scored a lot of psycho- logical thrillers and dramas, and is perhaps best known for his music for the films of Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Solaris and Sex, Lies and Videotape). His lat- est score is First Snow, another film in the genre Martinez knows best. The composer made the choice to portray paranoia musically in an internal way – avoiding an external, action-driv- en approach in favor of a more character-driven one. "I didn’t see it quite as the ‘nailbiter-on-the- seat’ action thing that Memento was,” said Cliff “First Snow”, starring Guy Pearce, features a psychological thriller score by Cliff Martinez. 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ISSUE 15 • MAY 15, 007 FILM MUSIC weekly FILM MUSIC NEWS FROM THE EDITOR Thoughts on Video Games Live game and film scores live to tour in Europe oncert hall managers all Cover the world are current- ly looking into the recent game oh music trend, and most of them N L N I are looking either at the ‘Play KEV – A Video Game Symphony’ concept, or at Tommy Tallarico’s and Jack Wall’s exciting ‘Video Games Live’. have been involved as a con- Isultant in a few game concert music discussions myself. We brought Laura Karpman’s Ever- quest II music as well as stuff by Michael Giacchino to a nice outdoor concert in Sweden last year, and now the same orches- tra will do another game music concert. That’s lovely. But I’m afraid the main reason for their interest in this kind of music is not the music itself – they are desperate to find a new way to bring younger audiences to the concert hall and everyone knows that kids play video games! Jack Wall conducts the orchestra during a Video Games Live performance. ow, this is a tricky situa- One of the world’s leading handles booking and sponsor inqui- OPENING THIS WEEK Ntion. As a fan of both game artist management agencies, ries for Video Games Live in the US. music and film music, one has IMG Artists, has acquired the Interestingly, IMG Artists also to admit that, of course, it’s European, Asian and Austra- represents “Play – A Video Game wonderful to be able to hear this lian representation of “Video Symphony,” another game music kind of music live. But if this is Games Live.” concert concept that is said to be going to remain a sustainable competing with “Video Games Live”. trend, the concert halls need to Composers Tommy Tallarico and “We maintain fulfilling our obli- think in a different way: they Jack Wall, both game music veterans gations to both Play and VGL and have to really look at the music, with a plethora of popular games on we presently represent both prod- not the package. Same goes for their resumes, are the producers be- ucts in the Asia Pacific. The video film music. Interestingly, when hind “Video Games Live,” which was game concert business is in high de- they programme regular concert created in 2002. Joining forces with mand and we are proud to be a part music, a work can be obscure IMG Artists, they are determined to of this developing business,” said as hell – but when doing a film bring their concerts to a wider audi- Manfred Seipt, Sr. Vice President at music concert, everything has ence – since 2005, over 75,000 peo- IMG Artists European Division. to be well-known. Concert hall ple around the world have attended “Video Games Live will sure to THEATRICAL managers need to understand “Video Games Live” concerts. be very popular in Asia,” said IMG • Severance (Christian Henson) that it’s the quality of the music “Partnering globally with IMG Artists Sr. Vice-President and Direc- • Shrek the Third (Harry Gregson- that really counts, even if we’re Artists will ensure our success on tor of Asian markets Mindy Coppin. Williams) not talking about music that’s a much more rapid time scale than “We’ve already received great inter- written exclusively for concert we had previously expected,” said est in the show and are looking for- DIRECT-TO-DVD use. The sad truth is: not all Tommy Tallarico. “To have both the ward to growing Video Games Live • Bunny Whipped (Jessika Zen) blockbuster film scores and William Morris Agency and IMG to an even larger scale.” • Creepshow III (Chris Anderson) game music make for an inter- • Duplicity (Clive Raymond) Artists now in our corner is a tes- According to a press release esting live experience, no mat- • Half Past Dead 2 (Jon Lee) tament to the strong growth and from IMG Artists, plans for a ”Vid- • Love Trap III (Frank Cleveland III) ter how popular its origin is.