ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring workshop and MaMI conference

I had the pleausure to attend to both the ASCAP film Scoring Workshop in the memory of Buddy Baker and the Music and the Moving Image International Conference, which is probably the most important event in the film music theory world.With 90 paper presentations and all the major researchers in film music there (Claudia Gorbman, Roy Brown, Karen Collins, James Buhler, David Neumeyer, Jeff Smith ... ), the experience was really interesting. It was nice to know the people that have published most of the books and articles I've been reading lately and it was also very interesting to be able to know what are some of the key things that are now being researched. It was especially remarkable the 2 keynotes (by composer Tom Salta and theorist Karen Collins) and around 10 papers dedicated to music in videogames.It was really a perfect beginning for the paper I'm currently writing around the definition of diegetic music.The workshop was also great, with the presence of the composers Bruce Broughton and Mark Snow as special guests with the rest of the NYU faculty (Tim Starnes, David Spear, Mark Suozo, Ira Newborn..). It was very intense with long daily sessions and long composing/mock-uping/orchestrating nights. The culmination was the recording session with a chamber orchestra of the music we composed during the workshop.In my case I choosed a "Chase Scene" from the galactic western Serenity, a movie that came after the TV Series Firefly. And here a video of one of the takes from the session: