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Music Scores for Planetaria and Space Theaters Since 1985 Bowen Technovation has become very well known as a provider of innovative original music scores for planetarium shows and large format film theater preshows. In fact, Bowen Technovation has undoubtedly provided more original music scores for Digistar-based programs than any other single composer in North America. A More Creative Approach to Music
And our satisfied clients believe we are successful in composing music that is on the same level of sonic quality as that of works by major recording artists. Your visitor has come more and more to expect your productions to share the same levels of production value as they experience at the movies and at home. And if they hear inferior audio and music, they simply turn off your message. We don't record your material in a bedroom or a basement...see the link to Our Audio Studio. Our use of the same recording hardware and recording techniques as used on your favorite Grammy award winning albums assures your soundtrack will have that major league sound. The ways we utilize multichannel surround sound are spectacular indeed. See our link at Sound Effect Design. Need a Demo...Fast? We welcome requests for our sample reel, available on videotape, audio cassette, on CD, or on DAT. Our reel will demonstrate an amazing variety of musical post scoring styles...baroque....international ethnic tracks...hip-hop...Dixieland...ethereal..."in your face" metal...sweet saxy jazz...they are all available for your inspection. If you are interested in 6-channel surround sound work, for a very small charge we will provide samples from multichannel show mixes on an ADAT tape. Costs and Licenses We provide major price discounting to our planetarium colleagues. Our productions are probably less costly than you would expect to pay for such quality. Call us with specifics about your project and we'll get you a quote. Buyout licenses are available at your request. Great! How Do We Get Started? Post-scoring for video/film based projects takes place after your rough cut or final edit. You deliver a 3/4" work print to us with SMPTE time-code on the address track and any reference audio from your master mixed on audio track 1 and 2. This allows the use of two separate audio channels for split track monitoring. Your project will move more smoothly if you burn in a visible time-code window. A specification is included below for this 3/4" workprint. If we need to include edited audio from your video master, please supply this lay-off on time-code DAT. We recommend you leave the tracks split-track so we can properly integrate this audio and provide you with a final synchronized mix. We then lock our computer systems up to the time-code from the work print and begin composing...integrating the best in computer- based music software and MIDI systems with the exciting elements of live guitar, sax, vocals, and other instrument tracks. We then often add sound effect work to these music tracks. Most of our clients ask us to provide all the audio services for their productions as completed turnkey works. The choice is yours. The Mix After our music, dialog, and sound effect work is completed, we can deliver our product mixed in many different formats. Whatever you need works for us. Some of the more popular mix formats for planetaria include: Four to six channel surround-sound mix on ADAT digital 8-track. And... Bowen Technovation can now master your soundtrack to a CD! Hmmm...My Project is not a Post Score We begin prescored music and soundtrack design for planetarium projects in a couple of ways. Producers often record and edit the narrative/dialog tracks in their own locale, then send them to us to proceed. Sometimes the script is sent to us to produce using the excellent talent pool available in our region. Approval takes place by phone patch or by cassette tapes. Music and sound effects are composed to the narrative timing and a mix is completed. Specifications for Video Work Print 3/4" video tape Audio channel #1- audio from channel 1 of master Address track-exactly same time code as master, re-generated, not dubbed Time code window burn-small and in lower right hand corner, if possible Audio Layoffs DAT with cue track time-code from master Please keep all audio layoffs split track For Layback to Video We Mix to: DAT with cue track time code SFX Layoffs from Our Library for Post Recorded in same formats as material for layback with time code Planetarium Home | The People | Contact Us | Planetarium Site Map
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Our digital soundtracks simply stand out as unique in that they are so tightly integrated and interactive with your narrative show components. The music simply works perfectly in sync with the rest of the program, supporting and enhancing the message in a fresh, exciting manner. Many varied stylistic influences are present in a Jeff Bowen score.....no mushy wallpaper here...every note has a place and a meaning. The music gracefully evolves form dramatic and brassy to relaxed and acoustic. From the texture of actual native percussion to the entertaining performance of a rock guitar passage. The spacial coolness of a synthetic pad to the cutting and slashing attack of marcato violins and cellos. Any and all may be present in your score.