Last night I worked several hours working with Aaron Horne and his Four Eyes studios sound crew. The majority of the evening was spent watching/listening to the third act and spotting where sound still needs work. After that we watched/listened to the first two acts, which had been the focus on previous visits. It’s exciting to witness the process, the film transforming as layers of sound are added… Aaron assured me last night we are weeks away from having the sound ready for the final mix.

A few days ago I visited Brian and listened to the new music he’d written… I told him this and truly believe it - he’s doing an amazing job and know this will be the best work he’s ever done! The music far exceeds my expectations and adds such an epic layer to this film.

Brian had this to say on his Blog:
Tonight I wrapped up two more cues for COWBOY SMOKE: 2m11 “Mi Familia” and “Joe & Elysa.” These are both tonally and structurally related. Sometimes the soft quiet cues are the hardest ones and both of these were challenging for these reasons. Will was over tonight and I played him my music for the opening of the film. He liked what I liked and we were able to figure out what was wrong with what I wasn’t liking about it. I think I’m back on track with that piece now. Sometimes it just takes the director’s direction to be sure that I’m staying on the right path. I couldn’t quite figure it out this weekend when I was working on it but all is full-steam ahead now. There is still so much to do but I’m making good progress. The compositional machine tends to speed up as it gets going so I’m sure I’ll make up some ground in the next couple of weeks. There’s still plenty of time so I’m not worried about the schedule at all.

That’s all for now!!!!

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