Lalo Schifrin

It was great to see my good friend Lalo Schifrin at the Composer Expo. Lalo broke the panel formation to actually point me out in the audience. Hummie Mann and John Ottmann were there, and I spoke to them afterwards. A newer composer named Bear McCreary was also on panel. Read more...

Composer Expo - Saturday

I'll be at the Composer Expo on Saturday, again looking at the DVZ Strings from Audio Impressions. I'll be there representing The Composer Collective, with Matt Gates, VP. Look forward to seeing anyone there. - Evan Read more...

Does A Robot's Life Flash Before it's Dying Eyes?

Rediscovered this nice track I did for a movie called "The Surge" (aka "The Source"), available on DVD. The track called "Vertigo - Epic Remix", is in the Trance style. It was an attempt to bring the intelligent orchestral writing of Bernard Herrmann into the genre of electronic dance music. The effect is that of being in a spiraling vortex. To me it gives feelings of great nostalgia, but of course of a past in our future. It reminds me of the sadness a future machine lifeform might have as it died slowly, remembering all of the good things that made life worth living. It's also reminiscent of "Blade Runner", which of course is based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". Read more...

33

Well, today was the big "three-three" celebration. Of course, my initial's are E.E.E. and my company is E-Cubed or E3 Music. So this was a very special birthday celebration for me, with extra numerological meaning. Three "E"s, the number 3, etc. You get it.

After working all night at the office, I came home to clean up, and spend the day with Michele and my children. We headed out to Camarillo, where they were hosting a Jazz and Art festival. The kids found playgrounds to play at, and we heard some big bands, and finished up with a lovely bluegrass group.

Then, later on in the evening, my wife treated me to a great dinner at King Fish. I had coconut-curry shrimp with pineapple and snap-peas over jasmine rice.

We then proceeded to check out "Burn After Readin" the new Coen Brother's flick. It was fun and entertaining, but pretty much rubbish. Aside from the score being the biggest sore thumb and doing nothing to rescue the botched movie, the plot was scatterbrained, and contrived. It coudl easily have been called "Burn Before Watching". I don't really even recommend it to Coen Brother's fans. It was just an excuse to fulfill a studio contract obviously. Brad Pitt was extraodrinary though, and Clooney was spot-on. It was mostly Carter Burwell's fault. Read more...

CuePop - Silent Launch

Honestly, I can't believe how easy and seamless the re-launch of CuePop just went. I just uploaded the last backed up site to the server, and although there was a glitch last night, my programming was advanced enough that it self-healed overnight, and this morning it's up and running. The media content is still uploading and until that's finished no media will play. But I'm very happy to have CuePop up and running again. I've already interviewed several programmers to do site updates, upgrades, and maintenance, so the site is going to become very solid. In conjunction with my company, The Composer Collective and it's 325+ members, I think we could have in the neighborhood of 2500 tracks in a few months or less.

Alright, well anyone reading this, can take a peek, at:
http://www.cuepop.com/ Read more...

Video Clip 1998 - "Art Beyond Borders"

Click the title above to watch.

I was strolling around the web and came across this interview clip/montage, with me, which I completely do not remember doing, from 1998. It was from a classical commission by a company called TIMOTCA, for their exhibit "Art Beyond Borders". TIMOTCA is a sub-division of UNESCO which is the peace-keeping branch of the UNITED NATIONS. Read more...

New EVAN EVANS website - It's A Blog!

I've decided it's best for a composer site to be a blog. A blog site can be sophisticated enough that it can serve the interests of fans and clients the same. This way I can also be more up to the moment, and up to date with the site. Also, I think my old website was really a glorified blog anyway, what with the "x-ray" theme and putting all my "thoughts" up ("inside the mind"). So I think it's apropos.

I will be pre-dating and entering the content from the old site, into this blog. So no information will be lost. Read more...

"Laughing with..." Heather

Documentary film director, and long time friend Heather Goodwin, and I discuss the music for her latest Documentary "Laughing With Pigmies". Read more...