Here’s a track of mine appearing in the premiere/recap of Showtime’s Dexter (Season 6, Episode 1, “Those Kinds of Things”). Aired October 2011.
The track is called “Dead in the Street” and is via VideoHelper. Never watched the show. But after scouring the web for this episode, I watched some. Pretty twisted premise!
Glad to see that solo piano at the end worked out! Can’t go wrong with that.
Great film by Sebastian Lange for A Design Film Festival 2011.
The whole intro is scored using VideoHelper’s MODULES series, in which, I have 73 titles and was producer on Vol. 1-3. There’s a lot going on sound-wise re: too many tracks to list. You’ll just have to trust me on this one. Excellent film!
Encounters is a short film (or long commercial, you decide) written and directed by Sébastien Spitz for Rémy Martin and Louis XIII Le Jeroboam. This is a serious luxury cognac with only 100 bottles produced. Pricetag: €16,000 / $22,800.
Read all about it here, here, and here.
The opening track is CA70, “Birth Of A Notion” from POLITIK c/o VideoHelper’s ScoreHelper Series. It’s used throughout.
Notes: Some of the best distortion I’ve used (and is all over POLITIK) is heard here, an Ensoniq DP/4+ with a dead battery. This track was also used for Making The Sopranos: Season 6.
These are some films from British photographer/filmmaker Rankin via his HUNGER TV site and his Jitrois Fall/Winter 2011 campaign/collab.
My client (in this case ) is Abaco Music Library and you can explore this release here. I produced these all while a resident at 3rd Ward.
Jitrois #3, 4, 7, 9, 11 = “Ghost Power” and “Warehouse Skirmish”
Take Me to Outer Space = “Supernatural”.
Scented Senses = “Static Jump”.
Loving these! Thanks Rankin and Abaco!
I created my first Kickstarter campaign this past Monday 3/19/12. Here’s what it is.
I’ve known and worked with singer/songwriter R.M. Charde (‘Bob’) on various music and art projects for over 20 years. In 2007, I produced a song of his called “Good Morning”, which David B. Levy animated into a short film. The film was a success; it airs on Nick Jr, and made the rounds at every major kid’s film festival.
Here’s some extra back story you won’t read on Kickstarter. In 1998, Bob and I co-scored David’s first film Snow Business, which placed second for Best Score at the ASIFA Festival of the same year. I believe it was John Canemaker’s Bridgehampton that took first. It was at this after-party that I first met Don Duga. I was living in the Hamptons at the time and actually gave Don a ride out east. We’ve cast Don Duga to be our next animator for Bob’s song “When I’m With You” and everything else you need to know is on the Kickstarter page. You can also pledge monetary support via Paypal. Click and enter your amount. The charge will be listed as “March Kickstarter Campaign”.
Legal note: Paypal DOES NOT work like the Kickstarter model of all-or-nothing. Once you submit any money to CA70 Music, INC. (a for-profit S Corp) you support the endeavors of CA70 Music, INC. via a non-refundable pledge. Paypal pledge = I trust Chris Jones/CA70 and his projects without Kickstarter. I do not expect to/WILL NOT see my money back if the Kickstarter campaign fails. For Paypal’s complete legal dossier, click here. In the event that a Paypal pledge arrives to an under-funded Kickstarter campaign, I will be converting said funds to Kickstarter pledges. I will do my best to align that individual to corresponding incentives but CA70 is NOT legally required to do so.
I was happy to find this. Here’s an Act 3 drop of my VideoHelper track “Revenge in D Minor”. I produced this track in 2004 and you can read a blab about it here. It is the Danish film, The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man released in 2010 and directed by Per Fly. Thanks to Upright Music!
Sonic assemblage for the horror/thriller/mystery/action idiom. Hope you enjoy it. Please ignore any MP3 artifacts if you hear them. The DMS and 615 tracks are all unmastered.
No more demos! No more demos!
I really dislike music demo collages and I especially dislike cutting them every two years. From now on, CA70 Music (that’s me) will periodically post themed playlists. I’m pretty sure it’s a good idea.
CA70 = Circa 70 Music, Inc. aka Chris Jones, composer/producer/sound designer/musician/DJ.
Chris Jones (1970-) is the son of Terry “Buffalo T.” Jones, a singer/songwriter who penned the country-western hit 1983′s “Red Neck And Over Thirty” (Billboard #71). After some success in Nashville he entered the college/public radio industry and built what would become the Long Island Radio Network.
Chris started playing music professionally at age 16 with well-regarded jazz drummer Jim Chapin. Through Chapin he met Ray Williams, began studying classical contrabass and competed that year in All-State competitions receiving 6A’s in both jazz and classical. The following year, he studied drumming with Chapin as a trade-off for playing bass in his jazz groups and again competed All-State receiving a performance scholarship and 4A’s in jazz (kit) and classical (mallets).
On said scholarship (and tuition remission), Chris attended LIU’s C.W. Post and began a music major with a minor in film. At Post he met faculty member Frank Cassara (Steve Reich, Philip Glass), began studying mallets/percussion and performed with Avant-Garde Ensemble, Opera Workshop, Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra on both bass and percussion. All performances took place at the world renowned Tilles Center.
Two years later he transferred to Berklee College Of Music and enrolled in the Film Scoring program. Marti Epstein, Steve Wilkes, Rick Applin, David Spear, and Bruce Gertz would all prove to be new music mentors. He was an (fretless) electric bass principal, doubled on upright, and went on to play Chapman Stick in the Berklee Performance Center in a concert honoring (ironically) Mr. Jim Chapin. He was an active musician at Berklee playing in ensembles, 100+ recording sessions (FS and MP&E), and in rock bands gigging everywhere in Boston.
After graduating (FS ’95 Diploma), he moved back to L.I. to focus on composing work. First clients included: Nickelodeon (Dora The Explorer designer Helena Gierz/Funline Animation), director David B. Levy (ASIFA, Adult Swim, Noggin), Manhattoons (MTV’s Cartoon Sushi, Atom Films), and producer Robert Charde (Blue’s Clues, Sesame Street, Mo Willems). These freelance projects went on to win Telly, CINE Golden Eagle, and BDA Awards. Between jobs he played GB gigs (jazz/blues/rock/theatre), drove taxi, and DJ’d in both the electronic (live PA) and jazz (public radio) settings. (WPBX LIU Southampton).
He was hired by VideoHelper Production Music Library in 1999 as staff composer/sr. producer. In his period at VideoHelper he earned many credits including: The Sopranos, ABC, NBC, CBS/Viacom, Miramax, HBO, Adidas, Akklaim, and TBS. He licensed music and sound design for over 40 movie trailers, co-developed and produced their ScoreHelper and Modules libraries and served as staff orchestrator. His work while at VideoHelper has been written about in Post, Mix, Pro Sound News, and Create Digital Music.
In September of 2006, Chris accompanied VH to the Czech Republic to produce the Moravian Philharmonic in a recording session of 12-tone/atonal orchestral music and effects composed and orchestrated by Penka Kouneva (orch. Hostel, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End, Transformers), CJ, and VideoHelper. Also that year, he co-wrote/produced a track entitled “Fool” for Robin Danar’s album Altered States (Shanachie) with Andy Levin and Holly Palmer. The album is a collection of covers produced and performed by different guest artists including Pete Yorn, Kinky, Lisa Loeb, Paul Buchanan and others.
Chris left VideoHelper staff (still freelances) in late 2007 and formed Circa 70 Music, Inc. (CA70, ASCAP).
Currently, he produces and DJ’s electronic dance music (dubstep/trip-hop/nu-jazz) under the name Overcast Radio. He’s active in the US/UK dubstep community releasing tracks on several labels, getting play on BBC Radio 1, and playing NYC’s Dub War party (with Kode 9) in support of mixing Vol.4 of their well-known podcast series.
As a musician, Chris plays bass within the New York free-jazz/improv community with Stereophile recording artists Attention Screen and has performed/worked with Daniel Carter, Don Fiorino, Mark Flynn, David Gould, Andy Haas, Michael Leonhart, Mary Lorson, Dafna Naphtali, Robert Reina, Blaise Siwula and others. Attention Screen plays regularly in NYC and Overcast Radio features some of these musicians as well.
He is endorsed by several brands through Artist Relations and is a member of ASCAP (as writer and publisher), AFM (Local 802), and Freelancers Union.
Here’s a recording from our 12/2/11 sets at Otto’s Shrunken Head.
Personnel:
Bob Reina: electric piano
Don Fiorino: guitars, electric mandola
Mark Flynn: drums
Chris Jones: double bass
Dawoud (Abdoup Mboup, Jojo Kuo) : dilruba
No pics except this one of Don. Note the contact mic and sitar bridge. Drop in around 44:30.
