Press Release – AVATAR: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE

AVATAR: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE,

THE OFFICIAL COMPANION ALBUM TO JAMES CAMERON’S

EPIC MOTION PICTURE, FEATURES MUSIC COMPOSED & CONDUCTED BY

OSCARÒ-WINNER JAMES HORNER,

PLUS “I SEE YOU (THEME FROM AVATAR)” PERFORMED BY LEONA LEWIS

FROM ATLANTIC RECORDS, ALBUM’S U.S. RELEASE SET FOR DECEMBER 15^TH;

AVAILABLE INTERNATIONALLY ON DECEMBER 14^TH

AVATAR IN CINEMAS EVERYWHERE DECEMBER 18,

FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

LONDON, November 16, 2009 -  AVATAR: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE, the official score album companion to Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron’s epic motion picture adventure, will be released digitally and physically December 15^th (available internationally on December 14^th), from Atlantic Records. Pre-orders begin at www.atlanticrecords.com/store on November 16^th.

 

The album, which features music composed and conducted by Academy Award®-winner James Horner (Titanic), will be highlighted by the film’s end title song, “I See You (Theme from Avatar),” performed by multiple Grammy® Award-nominated singer Leona Lewis, and produced by James Horner and Simon Franglen, the team behind Titanic’s blockbuster theme song, “My Heart Will Go On.”  A companion video directed by Jake Nava (Beyoncé, Shakira) is currently in production.

 

James Cameron’s AVATAR will have its World Premiere on December 10^th

before an audience of  3,000 people at the Odeon and Empire Leicester Square cinemas.  Attending the premiere event will be director/writer/producer James Cameron, producer Jon Landau and cast members Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana and Stephen Lang.

 

A live action film with a new generation of special effects, AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron first conceived the film 15 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of production, AVATAR, delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

 

AVATAR stars Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation), Zoë Saldana (Star Trek), Michelle Rodriguez (Lost, Fast & Furious), and Sigourney Weaver (Aliens, Galaxy Quest).  The film is written by James Cameron and produced by Cameron and Jon Landau.

 

Advance screenings from December 16^th in the UK, box office now open.  For more information, please visit www.avatar-movie.co.uk

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Not everyone they find is ready … or willing … to don a costume and help others. And then again …some are. These are their adventures.

Gershon Kingsley’s Popcorn Turns 40

Taking a bit of a break from SDCC News while I have a bit of breakfast. Thought I’d might share a historical tidbit connected to the world of Geek Music (Moogs and Buchla’s are still geek right?).

The year was 1969. A year before, Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind showed the world the commercial viability of the Moog Sythesizer by putting out Switched On Bach, a greatest hits album of Johann Sebastian Bach played entirely on Moog. Composer Gershon Kingsley, who was part of the avante guard duo of Perrey and Kingsley, was looking to out do the duo’s last album, Kaleidoscope Vibrations when he came upon a popcorn machine. Thinking he could replicate the sound into a composition, Kingsley got to work. Three months later and several songs created, “Popcorn” was released on Kingsley’s album Songs To Moog By. He  improves on it a couple year later when he forms The First Moog Quartet and then friend and fellow band member Stan Free improves on it again with his own band, Hot Butter, garnering him commercial success.

The composition has about 79+ covers to date and is considered one of the building blocks of synth-pop and Electronic music. Some covers come from famed composers like Arthur Friedler and the Boston Pops and Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass. It also helped others rise to fame. Notably the Popcorn Orchestra which was Electronic pioneer Jean Michel Jarre. I’m more partial to the Marsheaux version myself.

Just thought I’d share that tidbit.

DITTO – A One Off Electronica and Film Online event.

DITTO is a one time only electronica and film online event.

16 MAY 2009 (performance starts 7.30pm)Ditto is a groundbreaking multi-platform collaboration between top names in music, film and writing. Individual, exclusive pieces inspired by classic works from various fields will come together live in an inspiring celebration of life – Creation, Joy, Love, Despair, Hope, Destruction and Farewell. The performance is broadcast live online for literally one time only; as all the work created will be erased forever at the finale.

With international musicians and producers influenced by dance, electronica and sonic landscapes composing, contributing and performing new works:

Sander Kleienberg, Rolando Rocha, Fluke / 2BIT, John Hendicott, Bruno Dias, Mieko Shimizu and.  Including a piece created by Richard Norris (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve). James Gillespie (aka Scope)

Alongside these music pieces, newly created film and animation is being contributed by leading film and visual artists among whom are a mulitude of successful and talented visual artists.The project brings together 23 newly commissioned pieces of visual art, with accompanying composed soundtracks delivered in a mixture of live and pre-recorded performance and a global broadcast. At the end of the event all the performance material is permanently erased and will never be replayed. This is a one-time event.

For a full listing and how to get involved visit www.ditto.tv

As a Soundtrack fan I loved the idea of this thing it’s just a shame that I won’t be able to attend(although I’m not sure if it will be too arty for me). Hopefully someone will be able to attend on our behalf and report back how it went. It’s a very clever idea and I hope it works out for all those involved.

Apparently one of the pieces is a Clockwork Orange mash-up by the guy that did this one for Death Race…

Head  over to the website as they have more info and trailers of what to expect.

GS Reporter: Nuge
Source: Ditto

Beta Flight – Episode 3 Out Now!

 

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“An Ill-Timed Affair”
by Alan White

Star Wars hits the stage!

Star Wars: A Musical Journey, featuring The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,movie footage, live narrators and a troop of breakdancing Wookies (ok I made that up but wouldn’t that be cool) is due to hit London next year.

Andy Remic’s Free Podcast Novels

 

Many thanks to the guys over at Forbidden Planet for sending us over this press release. I definately the idea of putting out free novels as podcasts is a definitely good move to help promote your work. Anyway check out the press release for more info.

Listen to promo 

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Quantum of Solace music video hits the net!

CERN Call in UNIT!

I knew it was bad! So bad that CERN Called in Martha Jones! In a special, limited time download:

Synopsis:

Torchwood go to Geneva where Martha Jones, ex-time traveller, is now working as a doctor for a UNIT task force at the world’s biggest physics laboratory, CERN. Deep in an underground tunnel, a giant particle accelerator is about to be activated for the first time. But something strange is happening. Scientists are hearing voices and collapsing with a strange illness. Is something lurking in the underground tunnel? Do the dead ever really stay dead?

Fans of Martha Jones can catch up with her latest exploits when Torchwood comes to Radio 4 today. In a specially-commissioned drama, Lost Souls, Martha has been called to CERN – home of the Large Hadron Collider that’s making all the headlines.

Listen Again: If you miss the play you can listen again for seven days from 3.00 pm today on the Torchwood website.

Direct link to the torchwood site for iPlayer and mp3 downloads. This will be available for only 7 days … 6 now.

Source: BBC Doctor Who Site

GS Reporter: WedgeDoc

U.N.I.T the audio mini series!

Good news for fans of Who related stuff and those interested in the Audio range. Big Finish has announced that the four part UNIT mini-series is available at £20 for the set until 01 Oct 2008. In addition, the teaser episode, previously only available with one issue of Doctor Who Magazine is available for free download until the same date.

I’ve listened to many of the audio works from Big Finish, and this series is quite a nice introduction to the worlds of the Audio universe. A strong cast with good plots throughout. The series also feature some of David Tennant’s early Who related work.

Download The Coup
Buy Season One of UNIT

Source: Big Finish

GS Reporter: WedgeDoc