The Score Arrives!

I can't read music, despite 8 years of piano lessons and my amazing clarinet skills in elementary school band I still can't identify notes on a staff. Thankfully I have a very useful composer attached to my team.

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His name is Keir Schmidt and that tome he's looking at is the score sent to me from the Jeff Wayne Music Group. It includes all of the orchestrations from all of the songs from the original album, plus a few extra goodies that have been added since the original recording.

Keir is responsible for taking all those notes and making them into music. He will orchestrate all the violins, horns, drums and huge number of synthesizers into a final mix for me. He'll also be playing the guitar himself on the track in order to get that awesome live sound necessary for the "heat ray" guitar.

Keir will be working almost nonstop over the next few weeks and I'm not exaggerating when I say that the whole production is relying on him right now. Without the awesome prog-rock music, the show would be quite boring. A lot of silence would follow some off-key a'capella singing. Keir is the lone warrior, shielding us from disaster.

Expect to hear some previews of his material soon!

Meeting with Jann Haworth

I've got some fame attached to the project now.

You probably don't know the name Jann Haworth but you probably know her work. A few years ago, she and her husband were commissioned to design the album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!

You've probably seen that mural in downtown SLC by the Gateway that mimics the Sgt. Pepper's Album Cover, well she did that as well. It's not a total rip-off if that's what you were thinking.

Jann was nice enough to meet with Producer Sarah Young and myself and discuss the different possibilities for designing puppets. I showed her a few ideas that I had and she got back to me with a few great ideas of her own.

I'm not going to reveal anything until the final products arrive but I will share with you the scratch pad that the two of us worked on during our meeting. It should give you a bit of a glimpse of what is to come!

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