Orchestra recordings with the ICSO

Last week I had a ton of fun with the ICSO rehearsing and recording a film score mockup I wrote during a course in advanced film scoring. Seven composers participated in the project, and all the music turned out really well – we have great musicians here!

Here is the workroom in which I prepared much of the music and printed scores. Its on the top level of the music building, which most people don’t know exists because almost nothing is up there.

The orchestra surrounded by microphones, cords, and sound panels. Many of them have headsets which had click tracks piped into them for precise timings during recording.

Here’s the studio where we hung out. All the sounds came through those immaculate speakers.

Dr. Jeff Meyer, the orchestra director, along with the student audio engineer (crap…I can’t remember his name – someone remind me). They had buttons which allowed them to talk to the orchestra through the speaker system, or, if needed, just to the conductor’s headset.

I should have the finished product at some point very soon, stay tuned!