Dropping a line that I'll be performing at the 2009 Living Dead Festival in Evans City Pa. where the movie was shot. The ONLY festival organized and approved by the original cast and producers including Russ Streiner, Judith Ridley and Jack Russo writer of the movie "Night of the Living Dead". I'll be performing live cinematic horror music that will get everyone in the mood for classic horror. As spooky darkness approaches; the tone of the music changes too. Soundtrack music created live for the ghouls as they wait for the original cast to take the stage before the movie. I'll start around 5pm. http://www.thelivingdeadfest.com/

last night I returned to the studio after a month or two. We had some water damage in the studio and needed a de-humidifier installed. I have recovered old tapes from my first studio, which sits vacant, and started going through them last night. i found some old gems that I might try to remaster and release. Other stuff was jut not very good. I am working on compiling soundtracks for a CD of soundtracks that I did in o8 and 09. I also have some space electronic and some minimal symphonic to release. All that should be soon. Stay posted. Thanks Rick

I am in the middle of composing and recording music for a DVD that will center on Message Therapy. The Producer/Director and Therapist like the first piece of music I send her. She didn't like the second piece. She said that the first piece gave her the feeling 'very "sitting on top of a mountain", that really works with this. Anything nature-feeling. The uptempo one sounds sort of in doors.' OK. I thought. How to I capture that feeling. So I turned to Flicker. I found some mountain pictures. Great ethereal feeling pictures from mountain views and of mountains. This helped put me into the mind set. A subject to compose to. A picture to compose to. It worked. The music that was inspired by the pictures that I was able to "fall" into and pull inspiration gave me what I needed. The music I sent to California on Wednesday was in her words 'That is SOOOOOO perfect. Exactly what I had in my head. More stuff like that is perfect. You were so at the mountains with that one!' So if you are stuck looking for inspiration and can't go where you need to for inspiration; try Flicker to put you in the mood. A couple of pictures of acoustics used in the recording this week. The guitar on the left I bought at a yard sale in 1985. It's a Yamaha Classical guitar with a cool pagoda shaped headstock. It has a warm mellow tone. The guitar on the right is a Spanish made classical guitar date unknown, and the manufacturer is not around anymore. I salvaged it from a prop department in a theater in Pennsylvania. It's beat up, missing frets above the 13 fret, but it sounds fantastic. Clear, bright tone.