Composing

Hi! My name is Rob Lowry and I am a music supervisor for film and television. Recent projects include Companion (New Line), Heart Eyes (Sony), and Novocaine (Paramount). Upcoming Projects include Drop (Blumhouse) and Friendship (a24). I've also worked on past projects such as Gossip Girl (HBO Max),...

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William Joseph Hill

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- Ashley Renee Smith
- Maurice Vaughan
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This is a great insight into the composing process, Ashley Renee Smith ! It helps me to understand the process my composer goes through when scoring my film.

Kat Spencer

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Great video Ashley Renee Smith, I'm sharing it with my daughter, too, since she's just starting her composing career. I loved the first point, Less is More. I use that in life. Works well....

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Linwood Bell

The best idea in that YouTube is to find a guy/gal like his Luigi and take lessons one on one.

Ashley Renee Smith

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- Maurice Vaughan
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William Joseph Hill, I’m really glad it was helpful. I think it’s always valuable for directors and producers to understand the creative process behind scoring. It can make collaboration so much smoot...

Maurice Vaughan

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Hi, Kat Spencer. I feel like I've already made it because I've constantly been hired for writing jobs, ghostwriting jobs, pitch deck jobs, and script feedback jobs, but I'm still working to sell featu...

That's awesome Maurice Vaughan! If you ever have too many writing jobs, feel free to share some with me :) heehee

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John Tinger Thank you! That means the world to me. And that is my goal, to get it placed. I really appreciate your listening and your comment.

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James Wunderlich Thank you!!! I appreciate that so much!

Gian Carlo Feoli Listening now! It's beautiful and so powerful. Wonderful job!

John Tinger

You're welcome

Nadia Cripps

@Kat Spencer Thank you so much for listening and for your kind opinion.

2 months ago

Hi, Kerry Kennard. Mark Orton said, "I don’t do a ton of writing ‘on instruments.’ I much prefer to write music in my head." Which one do you prefer?

Kerry Kennard

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For instruments - and real - no in my head.

Mark said he recorded much of the score for The Holdovers in his studio, then they moved to a bigger studio for the final recording sessions, Kerry Kennard. Is that common in composing?...

I think it depends on the composer and ..

Budget. Also, it’s about the sound the composer and … the Director wants.

You’re a director.. what do you see happening?

That makes sense, Kerry Kennard. I'm not a director. I'm a writer (screenwriter, commercial writer, and ghostwriter). I did try to produce two feature films way back.

Navid Lancaster

Hello Rob Lowry thank you for being in the AMA and hello from Trinidad and Tobago (in the Caribbean). My questions are:

1. How can Caribbean-based Composers gain access to having their music placed in...

Rob Lowry

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Hey Navid Lancaster ! Thanks for the question. We tend to work with music and artists from all over the world. I had answered this in a previous question, but finding a US based synch licensing compan...

Rob Lowry You've gone above and beyond the call, my friend. Thanks so much for sharing with us here. I'm gonna grab a cup and read through all this valuable info you've dropped....

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2 months ago

Thanks again for having this AMA, Rob Lowry! Looking forward to watching Companion this weekend!

Geoff Hall

Rob Lowry hey there, Rob. Thanks for this AMA.

My current film in development, is set in the city of Bristol (UK) and to enhance the atmosphere we are going to use what is known as ‘Bristol Sound’. Ba...

Wow! So much talent, Amanda Toney! John Williams is my favorite composer. Hans Zimmer and Ennio Morricone are two of my favorite composers as well. I talked with Hans way back about composing music fo...

Allen Lynch

Thanks for sharing, Amanda. They are all legendary composers.

Awesome Amanda Toney and I agree Maurice Vaughan, those are my favorites too!...

Pat Savage

Thanks for sharing, Amanda. These are all great composers!

Leonardo Ramirez

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2 months ago

I would add Jerry Goldsmith to this list Amanda Toney !

Thanks for sharing the video, Florin Şumălan. Great Q&A! Steven Weintraub asked Hans Zimmer what’s the first things he does when making music for a project. I’d like to hear what’s the first things ev...

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Oh man, I love Hans Zimmer. He's our modern-day John Williams Florin Şumălan.

Joel Irwin

I took my first class "music fundamentals" in the summer of 2003. Before then I knew nothing formally about music and music notation. SO I was playing around with my DAW at the time (Sonar) and a samp...

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Depends on the film or project I’m writing for.

Sometimes I start with chords then melodies.

When I did the EP - Collaboratio - I had Ed’s piano part to write from. Then I used different instruments t...

Chandra Cheung

Yeah, I subconsciously hear things—melodies, soundscapes, abstract textures—but I prefer a workflow where I sit down with my DAW and instruments ready, record ideas as I play, and then refine everything afterward.

Very interesting question. Both work for me, both are fun to try :)

Seth Norris

It depends. 9/10 times, it helps for me to get a pad down and then start writing. I love ambience, so getting that down usually spawns some moticom of creativity, especially if I'm having trouble find...

Awesome responses, everyone! Thank you for sharing. I rarely hear things first (though it happens.) Usually, I just sit down at my keys, and then my fingers find a melody quickly. Sometimes, a lyric will come to me, and I build around that.

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