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The Magic Life complete, into Nashville

We wrapped production on the score for Nelson Cheng’s feature doc The Magic Life last week, to oversee final dub in the coming days. Congrats to all who worked on the film on earning it’s first laurels as an official selection of the 2012 Nashville Film Festival. Screenings will be held at Regal Cinemas 16, Friday 4/20 @ 730pm and Saturday 4/21 @ 1030am.  Soundtrack audio available soon!

How to Set up a Chromebook

Just reading ESPN, and saw this little nugget we worked on:
Helped Antfood Music + Sound help Jason Schwartzman help you set up a Chromebook. The lovely Polly Hall makes a lovely string quartet. Brava.

Zenoids Theme Contest




Polly and I have been keeping busy with commercials and docs this past month, but I found enough of a window last week to pull together some talented compadres who were generous enough to turn my chicken scratch into the multi-tracked, make-shift jazz orchestra in the video above. Best of luck to the top 40 semi-finalists and many thanks to this merry band:

Leah Paul - Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute

Rob Jacoby - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax

Jeffrey Katz - Trumpets

Ross Helford - Trombones

Polly Hall - Violins

Elizabeth Luttinger - Bass

Lily the Dog - Awesome

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Upcoming Magic Doc

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Andrew has signed on to score Nelson Cheng’s premier feature documentary about the business of becoming a professional magician.  The myriad variety of aspiring conjurers from Bejing to Vegas provides a unique opportunity to utilize a wide range of musical styles as we dive into this quirky, fantastical, wondrously idiosyncratic world.

Andrew & Polly shows