Multidisciplinary and Grawemeyer Award winning composer Michel van der Aa discusses the importance of starting epic projects out small.
Topics discussed on this episode:
- Grawemeyer Award
- Pursuing awards
- Composing as a sound engineer
- Learning to run a business
- Mistake of buying equipment first
- Learning about films in NYC
- Similarity of editing film to composing
- Changing perspectives
- Additional tools for creation
- Getting people into the hall
- The responsibility of the composer to the presenter
- Demonstrating the value
- Epic works don’t have to be expensive
- Finding the money
- Pitching the music
- Where the risks are
- ROI
- Technology
- Salable
- Synopsis & project descriptions
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This episode was edited by E.J. Sadler at Studio184.