Scoring new Planetarium show about Darwin
Urban Scumbags versus Countryside Zombies nears completion
Collaborating and co-composing with legendary songwriter David Was on songs, ballads, rock, bombastic sports themes. You name it...
PBS documentary "400 Years of the Telescope" wins 4 Telly Awards. The soundtrack is now available on iTunes. Buy, rate and listen to the score.
Music supervisor and orchestrator on the thriller Iron Cross, last film of late actor Roy Scheider
Composing and supervising music on LA comedy feature film "Unbalanced" directed by Marianne Quinn
Composer and arranger on Ladd Ehlinger's latest film, Hive Mind
Writing a good home page for a film composer is almost as hard as writing a film score. The problem is that a site which offers the services of an individual composer can hardly rank well for relevancy against the topic of film composition as a whole. This is probably as it should be, because one thing a search engine cannot yet do is rate the quality of a film composer's work and services, only the quality of the site and the relevancy to the search query. It cannot distinguish between the search for information about the general topic of composition for film & TV and that of a producer or director on the hunt for an appropriately skilled and priced composer for their production. Hence there is no real merit in appearing first on the list as a film composer. Furthermore search engines have a tendency to be geographical, which also weighs heavily against the film composer, since the nature of the work requires no proximity to specific location or even the production itself.
MARK SLATER is an award winning California and London based BRITISH FILM MUSIC COMPOSER and composer for TV, commercials and advertising. Slater has working relationships with the London Symphony Orchestra, Abbey Road and Skywalker Sound. His most recent commission for Interstellar Studios and PBS saw him collaborating again with the LSO creating a score for the Documentary 400 Years of the Telescope shot in 4k Digital Cinema and an official project of 2009’s International Year of Astronomy. In 2007, Mark was commissioned by acclaimed online ad agency TRIBAL DDB as the composer of the PHILIPS AUREA soundtrack which was recorded at ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, conducted by Mark Slater, with key members of the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and other top session players. Mark Slater is credited alongside Film Director WONG KAR WAI who directed the short film for the site, “There’s Only One Sun” and Production Company ANONYMOUS CONTENT. Mark is a conductor, pianist and cellist. He studied at the LONDON COLLEGE OF MUSIC and EALING FILM STUDIOS with NICK INGMAN and RODNEY NEWTON. Mark Slater is the composer on the animated feature film FLATLAND THE FILM and has scored numerous other films, shorts and documentaries. His composition skills also extend creating music for VIRAL VIDEO campaigns online and developing loops for interactive content which can include games. Mainly a composer of orchestral music, Mark Slater has composed many works for concert hall and theatre. This site contains links to examples of his music, credits, testimonials, biography and how to contact him. Further relevant information is listed in the IMDB, Internet Movie Database and WIKIPEDIA.
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