Secrets of the Code

The 5th annual Tribeca Film Fest is in full swing. It's my first time going and it's nice to see how intimate it is.

Saw an interesting preview of a work in progress last night called Secrets of the Code based on a book of the same title. It's another of the many projects that have been spawned by Dan Brown's mega blockbuster book "The Da Vinci Code". There's an entire industry built out of that book with other books debunking or debating issues brought up in it, documentaries (at least 10 out there) and even travel tours to Paris and places visited in the book.

And...on May 19th, the Hollywood film version by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks is unleashed to something like 50 countries simulataneously. Many predict it will be the biggest grossing film of all time. And Hans Zimmer is Herr Maestro.

The Spy Genre of Music - All things Secret Agent

It's been a long time since I last posted. Sorry for the break - just needed to take care of a hundred things including a score for a short animated film for Pfizer's Listerine brand. Yes - it's a mini DVD that's going to be included on a millions of product packages for Agent Cool Blue. With a name like that, of course it's going to be an animated character super-hero.

And I got to play in a great area of music - the 50/60's tv spy theme genre. Peter Gunn, Get Smart, Pink Panther, James Bond, Secret Agent Man, Batman, the Man with the Golden Arm and all those great jazzy classics. And after carefully researching my references - which I do on every project - it was revealed to me the secret black knowledge of the 1950's/60's movie/television composer.

There's a very specific scale that everyone in this genre used. It's like each theme is an inversion of the other. Anyway, you can hear a sneak peek at my theme here.

Kapow! Blam! Zowie! Zoinks!