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So I guess it’s time to let you know that the music for this epic sock musical is finally coming into fruition. Over last weekend (the 7th and 8th of August) we managed to get a whole lot of players together and record all of the main songs for the film.
Paul and I spent about 2 weeks during the University holidays trapped away in the computer room at my house turning what we originally had for all the music into sheet music that players could actually read, and also elaborated on it a bit and made sure it was all going to fit into the film. The two of us then realized “Oh shit, we actually have to somehow record this now”. Neither of us even knew where to start in terms of recording a whole live session of songs. So we were bloody lucky then to get offered the assistance of Angus McNaughton and four students from MAINZ, Joel, Simon, Kieran and Paul. They came in with all guns blaring and used their epic skills to help us record all the music. However we had to still find all the players, which was a mission. Paul and I had some help from Claire Choe to get a bunch of string players, including Bleau, Rachel, Albert and Madeline, we had the assistance of Henry Chong on drums, Dennis Liu on guitar, Camilo Diaz Pino on Electric guitar and his band mate Nikki on Bass, Lawrence on percussion and of course the wonderfully talented Paul Robertson doing everything else.
Over the next few weeks the boys at MAINZ are going to be mixing all the tracks together and we will be getting in the actors to lay down the vocal tracks.
Odd Socks is nearly here ladies and gentlemen! I will put up some photos and maybe a video of the weekend once I can. So look forward to that!
So Rowan and Sandy have been working very hard over the last week or so and I now have over half of the songs completly composed, about a quarter written and half composed and 2 or 3 still waiting in the wings.
Its great to hear the music finally coming into existance, its giving me a lot more inspiration to get the film into gear. Even just listening to the music I can see (and hear) the film taking form. I can’t wait to start shooting!
Rehearsals begin again with the new script next week as well. Unfortunatly we wont have Liam Nolan again until the shoot as he is away, but I’m sure he will pick it up really quickly.
Might put up one of the songs when its properly recorded (or a smaple of the song) Until next time! – Adam
