Brian’s story was featured today in a USC Daily Trojan column on Dreammaking. The article talks about Brian’s past with being an EMT and working toward a medical career before deciding to follow his passion in music. Check it out.
http://dailytrojan.com/2010/08/30/leaving-behind-medicine-for-music/
Brian recently wrote an article for SCOREcastonline.com. It is the first in a series of articles that will be written by Brian.
SCOREcast is an interactive news website that serves as a centralized hub of discussion and debate for all professional working members of the film music industry. It currently receives over 37,000 hits per day. The site is recognized as an official “film music news provider” by the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and is a part of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) press core in 2010.
Check it out!
http://www.scorecastonline.com/2010/04/brian-ralston-10-lessons-on-breaking-in.html
Version 1.0 of Brian’s new FREE iPhone / iPod Touch App is now available for download at the Apple 
store.
Click Here to open the iTunes store.
With the iPhone app version 1.0 you have instant access at any time to Brian’s music as well as news and updates on Brian’s projects and films. Currently, one can tap into Brian’s news & updates blog on projects, hear free streaming score music, some of which has not previously been released to the public and more. Content will be added on an ongoing basis and in the future there will be some “behind the scenes” podcasts on some of Brian’s projects and scoring sessions and streaming video featuring trailers for the films Brian has worked on. And, if any of Brian’s music is being performed live in concert in the future, that info will also be updated on the App.
In order to get the data to stream to your iPhone through the app, one does need to take a minute to sign up for a FREE account on InstantEncore.com to log into the app. But that has benefits too. They also do the free Apps for the NY Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, etc…and there is a lot of cool free music available on those apps as well.
The first international trailer for DON’T FADE AWAY has been released by New Films International. This is the trailer that has been shown overseas for international territory rights. There will be a different trailer produced for the USA domestic campaign in the future.
According to The Hollywood Reporter on Feb. 10th, 2009, “‘Don’t Fade Away’ is materializing deals for New Films International. The drama, which stars Mischa Barton and Ryan Kwanten, has proven a strong seller for the company, which sold the movie to Falcon Films for Lebanon…”Fade” also was part of a two-title, all-rights deal the company signed with Kanal D/D Prods. in Turkey…The deals cap off a successful festival for New Films, which recently extended their output deal with MGM for all TV rights in all of Latin America for 3 more years.”
Brian just completed scoring the dramatic feature film DON’T FADE AWAY directed by Luke Kasdan. The film stars Mischa Barton, Ryan Kwanten, Ja Rule and Beau Bridges. The film currently is being represented by New Films International.
DON’T FADE AWAY Synopsis:
Life was easy for Jackson White. With looks, brains, and athletic ability, the world’s possibilities seemed limitless. But, when he came to New York City to pursue a career in the music industry, he was so seduced by money and status that he lost track of who he was. Now, with both his personal and professional lives on the edge of ruin, he’s been called home to care for his dying father. While in North Carolina, he’ll have to confront the friends he lost track of and the girl he never met.
Brian was brought in very late in the post process to score the film. In fact, Brian had only 5 days to write and record the score for the film. The film’s sound mix was completed this past week at the Wow & Flutter dub stage in Santa Monica, CA. Look for the film to hit the festival circuit later this year and probably see a commercial release in 2010.
Brian recently guest lectured at his alma mater to students in the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The Peter Stark Producing Program is a two-year, full-time graduate program designed to prepare a select group of highly motivated, imaginative, students for careers as independent film and television producers or as executives. Brian’s lecture focused on discussing the process of creating music in film and the post-production process. Brian also discussed licensing music, the process of finding and hiring a composer, and budgeting for source music and score music in film.
From one of the most influential horror novels of all time … Lust. Power. Deception. And lots of labyrinthine plot twists.
Brian’s music returns to the stage this month for the stage play THE MONK at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco presented by NO NUDE MEN PRODUCTIONS. Brian last worked in theatre in 2003 on the staged musical SnEauX! – The SINsational Gothic Figure Skating Musical at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles where Brian served as the orchestrator and arranger for that musical.
For THE MONK, Brian was approached by longtime friend and collaborator Lisa Fowle (www.dragonflysound.com) about working with her on the music for the show. Lisa was already on board for the show’s sound design and music. Brian’s music is dark, classical and gothic inspired with a little inspiration from Enya and other celtic like qualities. (See the music page for show excerpts).
The play revolves around a Spanish monk, Ambrosio (Ryan Hayes), whose life is crossed by a pair of young women: the tragic nun Agnes (Lisa Swanson) and the impoverished aristocrat Antonia (Margery Fairchild), both of whom will be key in the arrogant cleric’s fall from grace. As Ambrosio is guided down a path of dissolution by a mysterious beauty named Matilda (Cassie Powell), the story weaves in and out of the quest for Antonia’s hand by the handsome cavalier Lorenzo (James Tinsley) and the desperate search by Don Raymond (Cordell Wesselink) for the missing mother of his child. Along the way, ghosts and demons intervene, bandits attempt murder on hapless travelers, and nothing short of the Spanish Inquisition turns up for the finale.
THE MONK will play at the Exit Theatre in downtown San Francisco Thursday Oct. 9th (preview) then Friday and Saturday nights thru NOV 22. Tickets: $10 first weekend, $15 – $20 subsequent performances. For reservations email ambrosioandmatilda@gmail.com or call 415-994-1367.
9/Tenths was released on August 28, 2008 on DVD in the Benelux territories including The Netherlands and Belgium. The title has been changed for those regions to “The Survivors“. Most likely due to the fact that the phrase “possession is nine tenths of the law”…where the film’s original USA title comes from…does not have the same meaning in other languages as it does in U.S. english.
Of Brian’s score, Dutch Filmworks says “The sizzling soundtrack by Brian Ralston makes ‘The Survivors’ an unusually nerve-racking film experience.”
GRADUATION will have its hi-definition television premiere this week on the HDNet Movies channel. HDNet Movies is usually a part of a high definition package on the various affiliates. So, you have to be subscribed with your cable or satellite provider to receive HD programming to receive the channel. (Note: “HDNet Movies” is a different channel than its sister channel “HD Net”). HDNet Movies is available in the US on AT&T, Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV (ch. 78) , DISH Network (ch. 9423), Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable (ch. 1858), Verizon and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. The networks are available in Canada via Bell Express VU, Cogego, Shaw Cable, Star Choice and more. For more information visit www.hd.net.
The film will be broadcast twice in glorious 1080i HD with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround on the evening of Wednesday, May 28th, 2008.
Air Dates:
Wed, May 28th – 9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT
Wed, May 28th – 11:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM PT
So, mark your calendars and reserve a spot on the couch this wednesday night, as it is a chance to see GRADUATION presented looking better than the standard definition DVD and for the bargain price of free.
The GRADUATION DVD comes out in stores today. You should be able to find it at most Best Buy, Circuit City, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Wal-Mart and Target locations. It will also be available at Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video and Netflix.com rental chains.
The GRADUATION Premiere went off without a hitch on Thursday May 1, 2008 at the Landmark Embarcadero Theater in San Francisco. Brian attended along with director Mike Mayer, cinematographer Matt Urhy, actors Aimee Garcia, Riley Smith and Brandon Hanson, Producer Scott Hanson and Executive Producer Jason Blum. Below are a couple pics from the event and from the theatre. Note to anyone attending any ‘red carpet’ event. Don’t ever not smile and/or smirk at all the camera flashes. Because inevitably, the one picture chosen to be immortalized forever on WireImage will be the one with the goofy smirk…and not the dozen other photos where you had a nice smile.
Graduation Posters at the Premiere Theatre.
Brian Standing next to one of the GRADUATION posters at the Shattuck Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
Actress Aimee Garcia at the GRADUATION Premiere.
Photo by WireImage.
Actor Riley Smith at the GRADUATION Premiere.
Photo by WireImage.
The Landmark Shattuck Theatre Marquee across the Bay in Berkeley, CA. This was the other bay area location where GRADUATION was playing.
GRADUATION rocketed up to #68 on the IMDb movie meter this week as the release date for the film approaches closer. May 2, 2008 is the date folks. Brian will be attending the premiere this Thursday evening up in San Francisco at the Landmark Theatre Embarcadero Center location.
The GRADUATION trailer began showing this week on the HDNet channel. You will find the trailer on the show ‘Nothing But Trailers’ that plays on the channel periodically throughout the week. The next showing of ‘Nothing But Trailers’ is Saturday April 26th at 7AM PST and should continue throughout the next month. On DirecTV, HDNet is channel 79 for Hi-Definition subscribers.
The GRADUATION theatrical poster has been released and finalized. And it’s pretty cool!
The theatrical and DVD releases of GRADUATION received nice announcements in all the trades this week including both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Redwood Palms Pictures and Wagner/Cuban’s Truly Indie will handle the theatrical distribution; Magnolia Home Entertainment will release the DVD.
So…this info is a long time in the making, as the fine details have been constantly changing. But…without further adieu (because the ‘go ahead’ to post the info has been passed along)…
GRADUATION is being released theatrically in limited/selected U.S. cities by Magnolia Pictures in association with Redwood Palm Pictures this May 2, 2008. The only theatres that will be showing the film are select Landmark Theatres. (Landmark’s website only lists one theater now if you go there to look…but that will change as the release date gets closer). The film will screen in digital DLP projection and 5.1 surround at the theaters chosen.
Cities:
San Francisco, CA
Berkley, CA
Seattle, WA
Austin, TX
Minneapolis, MN
There will be a premiere screening at a location TBD in San Francisco on Thursday May 1, 2008.
Whether the film plays longer than 1 week or expands to other cities for a second weekend or not is entirely up to you the audience and the ticket sales at the initial theaters chosen, etc…
In a quick turnaround effort to still hit the graduation time frame this year…Magnolia Home Entertainment will release the DVD of GRADUATION on May 13th, 2008.
It is a full featured DVD with a commentary track, deleted scenes, alternate opening to the film, storyboard segment, blooper reel, etc…As well as Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and a direct digital transfer from the HD-SR film master. It looks and sounds amazing. Brian’s friend Lisa Fowle did a wonderful job on the sound design and special sound mix for the home theater version of the film.
The DVD has been sold through to Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video, Netflix, Amazon.com, DVD Empire.com, and more retailers. So…one should be able to buy it pretty much anywhere on May 13th, 2008.
There will be a new trailer soon which will be up at Apple’s iTunes/QuickTime website. And, there also some new websites you might want to check out (with more to go online soon).
GRADUATION MYSPACE PAGE
GRADUATION YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Go out and see the film folks! Or at least buy it. It is a great, fun indie film. You won’t be sorry.
So…there will be a couple exciting announcements coming soon! Stay tuned and keep checking back.
Guerra says the following, “Graduation takes one of the most pivotal days in teenage life, ‘high school commencement’ and adds to the madness with a cleverly planned bank robbery. Far-fetched, sure, but filmmaker Michael Mayer pulls it off with a light, likable touch and a photogenic, young cast…what Mayer does from that jumpoff point makes the film work. Instead of making just another teen throwaway flick, he’s infused Graduation with nicely realized characters and action that rarely lags. The crime caper that makes up the final third of the film sparkles with energy.
GRADUATION will have its festival premiere screening at the World Fest Film Festival in Houston, TX on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 at 5:00PM. The screening will take place at the AMC Studio 30 at Dunvale in Theatre C. No word yet on whether Brian will be able to attend the Houston screening or not as he is already scheduled to be in Tucson, AZ that same week for the Arizona International Film Festival with the film 9/TENTHS. The film’s director Mike Mayer will attend for sure. GRADUATION stars Adam Arkin, Chris Marquette, Shannon Lucio, Chris Lowell and Riley Smith.
Here is a flash version of the GRADUATION trailer that can be viewed right here. Just click play!
Brian was featured in a print article published in the Park City Digital Report this past January 2007. 40,000 copies of this industry trade paper are distributed throughout the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT and Salt Lake City, UT every January. To read a scan of the actual print article CLICK HERE!
The article “9/Tenths – Behind The Music” briefly discusses Brian’s approach on scoring the independant feature film 9/Tenths and some of the techniques and tools he used in creating a dense symphonic score in the independant film world.
Brian’s score for 9/TENTHS, has been nominated for “Best Music in a Feature Film” at the 2007 Park City Film Music Festival. The film festival runs from January 18-28, 2007 in Park City, Utah concurrently with Sundance and Slamdance. The festival’s focus is the musical score in the films that screen. In january of 2006, Brian’s score to the short film THE RECE!PT won a Gold Medal For Excellence at the same film festival.
The new theatrical release, director’s cut of 9/TENTHS (with a new 5.1 surround sound mix) will screen for the first time at this festival.
Time: Thursday, January 25th at 8:30PM.
Location: Main Street Mall, 333 Main Street, 2nd floor screening room.
A second screening of the film may be added. Keep checking the Park City Film Music Festival website for schedule information and ticket purchasing options.
From the festival website…
“The Park City Film Music Festival is a new independent film festival, presenting film music competition for both INDIE and studio-sponsored films, a performance showcase for composers with seminars for composers, musicians, songwriters and groups…The fourth annual PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL (pcFMF) will be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, January 18-28, 2007. This is the first film festival in the world singularly recognizing the contribution of composers and their music to film, and the first of such festivals in the Americas. Awards are given in the categories of Best Use of Music in Full-Length Feature Film, Best Use of Music in Documentary Film, and Best Use of Music in Short Film…Film music, whose broad appeal continues to gain prominence in the music marketplace, has stood for a long time recognized only at the very highest levels: the Academy awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, and a few others. The growing stature of film music is exemplified in the announcement early last year of the Pulitzer prizes qualifying film music for the first time in 61 years.
The pcFMF burst on the scene with a landmark 33 films in 2004, 50 films in 2005, 106 films in 2006 and is the brainchild of Ms. Leslie Harlow who has been operating the Park City International Music Festival for over 22 years. A Juilliard graduate, she and her husband, festival director Russell Harlow, a member of the Utah Symphony, are both prominent classical artists.
Ms. Harlow is driven to propel the PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL to international prominence, and has received encouragement from the Utah Film Commission, original founder of the Utah/United States Film Festival (now called Sundance Film Festival).
Here is a flash version of the new 9/Tenths trailer that can be viewed right here. Just click play!
9/TENTHS Theatrical Film Trailer
Brian Ralston | MySpace Video
A new theatrical poster for the film 9/TENTHS has been released.
9/TENTHS will be released soon. A screening of the film will take place at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, CA on Sunday November 5th, 2006 at 11AM. Unfortunately this screening is not open to the public and is for the AFM attendees only.
Here are some photos at the GRADUATION sound mix of Brian and director Mike Mayer. The mix was done at the Wilshire Stages (Stages A & B) in Hollywood, CA which has been the sound mix location of many blockbuster and independant films such as The Fast & The Furious, Legally Blond 2, Donnie Darko and Hustle and Flow. The photos below were taken by GRADUATION producer Bob Degus.
Brian recently completed scoring the teen bank heist movie GRADUATION. The movie is directed by Mike Mayer and produced by Jane Sindell (Seabiscuit). This is the first film collaboration between Brian and Mike Mayer. GRADUATION will be coming to theatres soon. The talented ensemble cast stars Adam Arkin, Chris Marquette, Shannon Lucio, Chris Lowell and Riley Smith.
In GRADUATION, four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. When things don’t go according to plan, they end up learning more about themselves in one day than they ever did in school.
Brian created a young, hip score for the film with a lot of electric guitar elements layered with percussion and orchestral flavors as the story evolves. Check back here soon for updates on the film’s release, distribution and pictures from the mix sessions, etc..
Brian has won a PLATINUM – BEST OF SHOW AURORA AWARD for his original score to the short film THE RECE!PT. The Aurora Awards are a film and video entertainment industry award, judged by a jury of one’s peers. The “Platinum Best Of Show” award is the highest honor the Aurora Awards can give. The Aurora statues are cast in the same foundry that creates the Oscar, Emmy and Clio statues.
THE RECE!PT short film won two Platinum Aurora Awards this year, one for Best Original Score and one for Sound Design.
The gripping independant feature 9/TENTHS will world premiere at the Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, AZ, Feb. 23-26, 2006.
Brian will be attending the festival premiere screenings.
From the Sedona Film Festival Website: “Lovers of independent films will celebrate the best in cinematic art, amid unparalleled scenic beauty, Feb. 23-26 in Sedona, Arizona. The occasion is the 12th annual Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop, named the “Fest to Impress†by MovieMaker Magazine and a top 100 destination for the American Bus Association. This year’s extravaganza promises to be bigger and better than ever…
Already recognized by filmmakers and audiences as one of the top festivals in the nation, the 2006 edition will continue a tradition of honoring those whose love for making timely, moving films drives them. The festival honors filmmakers motivated by passion for their art, not box office revenues.”
9/TENTHS will screen twice at the festival in Sedona’s largest 275 seat theatre. The prime screening times are as follows:
1. Friday Feb 24th, 9:45PM – Harkins Sedona 6 Theatres – Theatre 2
2. Saturday Feb 25th, 8:30PM – Harkins Sedona 6 Theatres – Theatre 2
9/TENTHS Film synposis…
“Sometime in the not too distant future. Terrorist attacks continue to escalate. Cities are the primary targets.
William and his wife Jessica, flee the city seeking safety. Upon reaching their newly purchased ranch, in the middle of nowhere, they discover, Elias a Mexican ranch hand already living there. Just as the property dispute escalates to a dangerous level, a massive terrorist attack causes widespread, catastrophic destruction – the world, as they know it, no longer exists.
The film takes a brutal, unflinching look at mankind stripped bare of the thin veneer of social convention. It is a daring, bold, often painful journey into the darkness of our primal, carnal selves. “
9/Tenths is directed by Bob Degus (Pleasantville) and stars Gabrielle Anwar (Scent Of A Woman, The Three Muskateers), Henry Ian Cusick (“Lost”, “24″, Half Light) and Dave Ortiz (The Crow-Wicked Prayer).
THE RECE!PT has been selected to screen at the respected Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival, Feb. 2-12, 2006.
The comedy short will screen twice in 35mm at the festival.
1. Monday, Feb. 6th at 9:00PM at the Lobero Theatres
2. Wednesday, Feb. 8th at 4:00 PM at the Metro 4 Theatres.
Tickets and other festival information can be found at the SBIFF festival website.
THE RECE!PT, has been selected as an official selection of the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, March 8-12, 2006.
The film will screen multiple times in 35mm during the industry focused comedy festival. The screening location will be the Isis Theatre, 406 E. Hopkins Ave., Aspen, CO. The screening times and schedule are still to be announced. Keep checking the film festival
website or thereceipt.com for updated information and screening times.
From the festival website…
“In 1998, responding to the need of the independent film community to have a top-tier industry showcase of comedy, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival added the Film Discovery Program to it’s event.
Now in it’s ninth year, the Film Discovery Program has been recognized internationally as a showcase for the best in new comedic independent film, and prides itself on not only being a place where new works can be seen, but where the industry can meet with filmmakers to discuss potential new projects.”
THE RECE!PT, has been selected to screen at the 2006 park City Film Music Festival, January 19-29, 2006. The festival focus is the musical score in the films that screen and Brian’s score for THE RECE!PT is considered a finalist in the festival competition.
The film will screen multiple times during the festival. The screening dates and times will be announced on the festival’s website soon: Keep checking the Park City Film Music Festival website for schedule information and ticket purchasing options.
From the festival website…
“The Park City Film Music Festival is a new independent film festival, presenting film music competition for both INDIE and studio-sponsored films, a performance showcase for composers with seminars for composers, musicians, songwriters and groups…The third annual PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL (pcFMF) will be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, January 19-29, 2006. This is the first film festival in the world singularly recognizing the contribution of composers and their music to film, and the first of such festivals in the Americas. Awards are given in the categories of Best Use of Music in Full-Length Feature Film, Best Use of Music in Documentary Film, and Best Use of Music in Short Film…Film music, whose broad appeal continues to gain prominence in the music marketplace, has stood for a long time recognized only at the very highest levels: the Academy awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, and a few others. The growing stature of film music is exemplified in the announcement earlier this year of the Pulitzer prizes qualifying film music for the first time in 61 years.
The pcFMF burst on the scene with a landmark 33 films in 2004, 50 films in 2005, and is the brainchild of Ms. Leslie Harlow who has been operating the Park City International Music Festival for over 21 years. A Juilliard graduate, she and her husband, festival director Russell Harlow, a member of the Utah Symphony, are both prominent classical artists.
Ms. Harlow is driven to propel the PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL to international prominence, and has received encouragement from the Utah Film Commission, original founder of the Utah/United States Film Festival (now called Sundance Film Festival). Leslie has already spoken with esteemed film composer, John Williams, who is very excited at the prospect of this new festival. As this festival grows in scope, we will be inviting John Williams and other prominent film composers to celebrate the art of film music through performance and master classes.”
Brian has a couple upcoming projects to announce. Continuing his collaboration with writer/director Tim Garrick, two more short films are about to be shot. The first, currently in pre-production, is another comedy short, again starring Kristen Bell called THE MOTEL SISTERS. The script is incredibly funny and has a lot of “white trash humor” which Tim, Brian and Kristen Bell are use to from their work on the musical SnEauX!
The second short, also in pre-production right now, is called OPEN HOUSE and is a horror film based off of the first 15 minute opening of a feature horror script that Tim Garrick wrote. The story is set in the 1950s and is described as being “pretty messed up.”
Both films should finish shooting by the end of the year and the composing of the music will begin after the film editing is completed, most likely in the January-February time period.
A trailer for the award winning short film THE RECE!PT has been posted at the film’s website www.thereceipt.com. While the film itself is an homage to RUN LOLA RUN, the trailer is an homage/spoof of typical Hollywood “blockbuster” style movie trailers. Brian even composed new music specifically for the trailer to further help with the…”homage.”
In other news for THE RECE!PT, the film has been specifically invited by HBO to screen at the first ever THE COMEDY FESTIVAL at Caesars’ Palace Las Vegas, November 17-19th, 2005. This is an invitation only festival and HBO has invited what they believe to be the best comedy films from the year to screen.
Also…THE RECE!PT will screen at the St. Louis International Film Festival that same week in St. Louis, MO. November 10-20th. The specific screening time in St. Louis is Saturday, November 19th, 11PM. Shorts Program #6 – Tivoli Theatre #3.
So…at lot of traveling is in the works.
THE RECE!PT was selected as the winner of “BEST COMEDY AWARD” in the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.
Also, the film has been invited to screen in competition at the St. Louis International Film Festival in November.
BORNE’s new self titled album is finished, mastered and at the CD duplication house being prep’d for release in early September. The album was recorded at Avatar Studio “A” in New York city and James Lugo’s Vocal Asylum in Hollywood, CA. The wonderful Andy Ellis mixed the album. The album was mastered by Louie Teran of Marcussen Mastering. Louie has mastered many notable rock/pop CDs including the Dave Mathews Band (The Gorge) and soundtrack releases including the soundtracks for Shrek 2 (score), Cold Mountain (score), Mean Girls, Spiderman 2, and the oscar award winning score for Finding Neverland. Needless to say, the post production of the album was in very good hands. Some tracks from the album have been posted on the music page of brianralston.com under the Pop & Rock section. Feel free to check them out. Brian did all of the horn arrangements for 4 songs on the album (Chelsea, Forgive Me, Useless and Body Talk) and the string orchestrations and arrangements for the song Crazy World. He also performed all of the trumpet and flugelhorn parts on the album. Since Brian spends most of his time composing and not performing, this is a unique opportunity to hear him play his trumpet as well. The quickest way to purchase the album at first will be either through the band’s website at www.borne-music.com, or it will be on iTunes and at CDBaby soon, probably later in September. If you are in the Southern California area, you can also purchase the album at one of BORNE’s up-coming shows as well. Enjoy!
THE RECE!PT, has been selected to screen at the 2005 San Diego Film Festival, September 21-25.
The film will screen twice at the festival. The screening dates and times are as follows:
Friday, September 23rd @ 2PM. Pacific Theaters in the Historic Gaslamp District. Theatre 6.
Saturday, September 24th @ 2PM. Pacific Theaters in the Historic Gaslamp District. Theatre 6.
THE RECE!PT has been selected to screen at the prestigious Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. The festival is September 6-14th, 2005 and will be held at the state of the art Arclight Cinemas on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, CA. The screening time of the film will be Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 at 3:30PM. Check out the official website of the film www.thereceipt.com as well as the festival website www.lashortsfest.com, both of which are being updated regularly, for more information. Brian’s unique score for the film is electronica based. Think…homage too the RUN LOLA RUN score.
We have just received word that the 35mm comedy short film THE RECE!PT, on which Brian composed the score and also produced, has been invited to screen at the 25th Annual Breckenridge Film Festival in Breckenridge, CO, September 8-11th, 2005.
THE RECE!PT is written and directed by Tim Garrick and stars Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Dina Meyer (Dragonheart, Starship Troopers), Matthew D. McCallum, Elizabeth Keener and Gil McKinney (Elvis Has Left the Building). Check out the Breckenridge Film Festival Web Site for more information, including screening times and locations.
Brian is currently working with the Los Angeles based rock band BORNE. For their new, as of yet untitled album, Brian is arranging orchestral string parts and may even play a little trumpet here and there. Crashing onto the nightclub scene in 2004 and capturing a hip, young audience in Southern California, BORNE is quickly becoming a hit band throughout the west coast. Their pop rock sensibilities are an homage to the popular groups of the last few decades from STING and THE POLICE to JASON MRAZ and DAVE MATTHEWS BAND. BORNE’s website and tour dates can be found at www.borne-music.com. Brian is excited to work with BORNE and be a part of their new album. For more information or booking info on BORNE, please contact Alicia Yaffe at (818) 269-7198 or at ayaffe@hotmail.com.
Brian was recently on the dub stage at Todd-AO for 9/Tenths overseeing the sound mix with director Bob Degus. An exciting time for the composer when the film’s sound is finalized!
Excerpts from the musical score to the feature film 9/Tenths have been posted on the music page of brianralston.com. Feel free to check them out. Featured solo musicians on this rich orchestral score were Chris Burton Jácome on Flamenco Guitar, Karen Hogle – solo soprano, Harry Shirinian – solo viola, and M.B. Gordy – hand percussion. Brian composed almost 50 minutes of music for 9/Tenths.
“Sometime in the not too distant future. Terrorist attacks continue to escalate. Cities are the primary targets.
William and his wife Jessica, flee the city seeking safety. Upon reaching their newly purchased ranch, in the middle of nowhere, they discover, Elias a Mexican ranch hand already living there. Just as the property dispute escalates to a dangerous level, a massive terrorist attack causes widespread, catastrophic destruction – the world, as they know it, no longer exists.
The film takes a brutal, unflinching look at mankind stripped bare of the thin veneer of social convention. It is a daring, bold, often painful journey into the darkness of our primal, carnal selves. ”
9/Tenths is directed by Bob Degus (Pleasantville) and stars Gabrielle Anwar (Scent Of A Woman, The Three Muskateers), Henry Ian Cusick (Half Light) and Dave Ortiz (The Crow-Wicked Prayer). Coming soon!
Welcome to the news and Update Blog for Film/TV composer Brian Ralston. Updates on current events and Brian’s projects will be posted here in the future.
