Happy New Year! Again!

Had an awesome meeting today w/Loren Toolajian, the composer who will be doing music for In-Out. We basically sat down to talk about music, composing, life, etc. Since we'd mostly interacted before in the role of web site designer/client, we hadn't really talked about music from that angle before, and found a lot of common ground. He was surprised to know that I knew who Paul Hindemith was, and had actually played some of his music when I was in an ensemble in college. I, in turn, discovered that he had met and collaborated with playwright Arthur Miller on a production at Signature Theater.

We weighed the choices of either cutting together existing music, which would have the advantage of real instrumentation, or having Loren compose original music which would probably be recorded in MIDI. We decided that the first option wasn't worth the hassle of licensing, but more importantly, I wanted this to be more of a collaborative project. So I'll be giving Loren a more complete blocked version around the first week of February, and then can get something back by March which can inspire me as I head to the finish line.