Recent recordings and doings
I've written and recorded a couple of tracks since early May. The first is for Illumina-- the game maker wanted something in the vein of Halo for a soundtrack, so I wrote (stole) a Carmina Burana type of choral part with some percussion and orchestra and he was happy. I didn't finish it in time for E3, but the game is still pre-beta release and there's no actual trailer to set music to, so hopefully the track will be put to good use later.
Rob Child is editing Antietam: The Boys in Blue and Gray and I'm busy writing and recording for it. The documentary is a bit different from the first film in this series in that he's aiming less for the epic film feel (though there is a little of that in the reenactment footage) and more for the excellent storytelling of historians to keep us engaged. I have written the beginning, the ending, and am working over the theme music he licensed from Steve Heitzeg. This theme music is a beautiful, elegaic piece for strings only. I hope I can successfully negotiate the middle ground between what Rob needs for the film and what the piece actually is!
Good news from Rob, I hope, will be forthcoming early in the week. He has an important meeting with a source of funding for his projects. If he gets work, I get more work!
A publisher called Masterworks Press will be sending me a nice royalty check this summer. The editor has a new project for me-- a series of pieces based on the idea of the "Geographical Fugue": set words to rhythms for learning purposes. This should be fun.
I had a jolt from the IRS on Friday. They sent me a CP2000 which basically says I didn't report all the income that was reported to them by my employers. I found the problem: it turns out that a payroll company made a mistake and sent out a large number of extra W2s to the IRS. My "extra" income was $10018 with $2770 in taxes due. Yikes! The church business manager (I am a church musician by night and weekend) had the needed documentation to fax to the IRS explaining the problem, but I wished he would have warned us all that this was coming. Ah well. You should know that I am scrupulously honest about taxes-- I report income from weddings and other miscellaneous services even though it would be very easy to hide. (Why is cheating the IRS a virtue, I wonder?) Anyway, when I first saw the notice and thought they were going to extract even more from me, I was feeling kind of stupid-- what was honesty getting me if I was getting slammed for even more? Hopefully it all will resolve quietly.
Rob Child is editing Antietam: The Boys in Blue and Gray and I'm busy writing and recording for it. The documentary is a bit different from the first film in this series in that he's aiming less for the epic film feel (though there is a little of that in the reenactment footage) and more for the excellent storytelling of historians to keep us engaged. I have written the beginning, the ending, and am working over the theme music he licensed from Steve Heitzeg. This theme music is a beautiful, elegaic piece for strings only. I hope I can successfully negotiate the middle ground between what Rob needs for the film and what the piece actually is!
Good news from Rob, I hope, will be forthcoming early in the week. He has an important meeting with a source of funding for his projects. If he gets work, I get more work!
A publisher called Masterworks Press will be sending me a nice royalty check this summer. The editor has a new project for me-- a series of pieces based on the idea of the "Geographical Fugue": set words to rhythms for learning purposes. This should be fun.
I had a jolt from the IRS on Friday. They sent me a CP2000 which basically says I didn't report all the income that was reported to them by my employers. I found the problem: it turns out that a payroll company made a mistake and sent out a large number of extra W2s to the IRS. My "extra" income was $10018 with $2770 in taxes due. Yikes! The church business manager (I am a church musician by night and weekend) had the needed documentation to fax to the IRS explaining the problem, but I wished he would have warned us all that this was coming. Ah well. You should know that I am scrupulously honest about taxes-- I report income from weddings and other miscellaneous services even though it would be very easy to hide. (Why is cheating the IRS a virtue, I wonder?) Anyway, when I first saw the notice and thought they were going to extract even more from me, I was feeling kind of stupid-- what was honesty getting me if I was getting slammed for even more? Hopefully it all will resolve quietly.
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