Renaissance Ensemble Recording
Renaissance Ensemble Recording! While we do record a lot of large orchestra scores, we also record a lot of smaller ensembles. We had a unique one last week where we spent 3 days in the studio recording a 7 piece Renaissance ensemble for a videogame score TBA. We had a blast recording for this game. It is not often that we get Nyckelharpa, Hardanger Fiddle, Traditional Fiddle, Lute, Viola da Gamba, Guitars, Bouzouki, and a large number of recorders, whistles, and percussion in one room at the same time. The players were all incredible and can’t wait to share the results when the game releases!
Grammy nomination for Star Wars Outlaws!!
Grammy nomination for Star Wars Outlaws! Star Wars Outlaws has has just been nominated for a Grammy award in the category Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media. Once again, it was a thrill working with our friend Wil Roget and his team of composers (Jon Everist, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Cody Matthew Johnson and others) on this incredible score.
Dragon Age:The Veilguard released!
Dragon Age:The Veilguard released We are thrilled to see all the great reviews for Dragon Age:The Veilguard which was released yesterday. It was great working with composers Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe on this score. Thanks as always to Steve Schnur for making this happen and all the great musicians at Nashville Music Scoring who brought the score to life!
Star Wars Outlaws is out!!
Star Wars Outlaw released!! Star Wars Outlaws was released yesterday by Massive Entertainment-Ubisoft. It was a thrill working with our friend Wil Roget and his team of composers (Jon Everist, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Cody Matthew Johnson and others). We were thrilled to be a part of this incredible score!
EA College Football 25 video
EA College Football 25 Released! Nice short clip in the studio recording the recently released EA College Football 25. Thanks to all the great musicians who brought this score to life. Thanks also to the Tennessee Entertainment Commission for their incentives that helped make recording this score in Nashville possible!
Great 2 days with John Tesh!
Had a great couple days in the studio last week recording with John Tesh and old friend conductor/orchestrator Eric Schmidt on a project recording a lot of John’s sports themed classics for the upcoming Olympics and an album. You will not ever meet 2 more talented and truly nice people in the business! It was a joy working with them both!
EA College Football 25 released!
EA College Football 25 Released! We are excited to finally announce the release of EA’s College Football 25 (or as the AP has proclaimed “The most anticipated sports video game of all time”)! We began recording this mammoth project almost a year ago and it comprises: 182 pieces of music (over 170 college fight songs) About 80 musicians 11 days in the studio 59 hours of recording A team of 15 arrangers, transcribers, programmers and engravers led by David Shipps Literally 1000’s of hours of preparation, mixing, meeting, etc This all would not have happened without the leadership and vision of EA’s Steve Schnur who has always been a champion of live music in all of EA’s games. I think that anyone playing this game will agree that the score is just as important an element as the game play. Congrats to all the members of Nashville Music Scoring for their incredible work on this project!
College Football 25
It was terrific to have recorded the just released trailer for the new EA game College Football 25. We recorded a 90 piece marching band comprised of a number of our first call studio players as well as a number of great college and high school musicians. Thank to Father Ryan High School for the use of their theater, their drumline instruments and, of course, a number of their students!
New Scoring Stage coming!!
The project, a partnership of Universal Music and a private developer, will actually be an entire entertainment production and education campus just minutes from Music Row and downtown Nashville. The “campus” will included multiple state-of-the-art scoring stages, video and recording studios, pre and post production facilities, a commercial music college, public park with band shell, hotel/restaurant/retail areas and onsite underground parking. While construction will take around 2 year, it will be a game changer for Nashville and the entire music industry. See more information here: Campus Details
State Scoring Rebates
We are happy to report that the State of Tennessee has renewed and expanded its Scoring Rebate program. While there are several conditions that need to be met, most Film, Videogame and TV projects with a total “Tennessee spend” of over $50K would be eligible for a 25% rebate on monies spent in Tennessee and paid to Tennessee residents and business. Eligible expense include musicians, engineers, copy work, orchestrations, conducting, Studio rental and travel and lodging expenses if paid directly to Tennessee residents or business. Conditions apply so please contact us for more information.