Animation Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Today’s Sheridan College animation score project: Let’s watch a jazz band score a film in real time

Ever wonder how musical scores are recorded for animated films? How do they give mood and feeling to characters and

Our hero looks for love in all the wrong places–the wrong planets, actually. Roddy from the band tells me that

If you need a smile today, try the Dancing Doodle Man. How bored do you have to be in class

Courtney texted me the other night after she and Frances attended an LA screening of Montage of Heck, the new

First, a little context. Happy Camper is a Dutch project that includes a lot of different singers who occasionally get

They’ve mashed up “Dividing By Zero” and “Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell.” http://youtu.be/G_b-V7BdJK8 (ViaRadio.com)

Sculpture calls it a “zoetrope picture disc” and an “opto-musical agglomerate.” Has anyone else ever tried something like this before?

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver