“American Dumpling” and “The Black Shield” Updates

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, Oct. 13th, 2008 Just a quick post on what is going on in the film composing world of Tomas Hradcky. Director Eileen Nelson also entered “Dumpling” into the Ann Arbor Film Festival, which is a bit of a trip for Tomas, as in 1992, the first short film he ever scored, [...]

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Is Anybody Out There?

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, March 22nd, 2008 It is eerily quiet, while we go about our music work and writing work. We should feel good about some aspects of this silence, and we do. But friends being chucked from their jobs, no return messages from our lawyers and doctors, the silence is unsettling. I suppose [...]

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Circling the Drain? I Think We All Might Be.

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, March 17, 2008 Tomas is eliminating clicks and pops on “The Black Shield”, while small kidney stones keep coming out. Ahh, Advil. He does not even notice them. He is doing the work for his sanity, I am writing for my sanity, because we would like to see another day. The [...]

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The Morning Fog – is it every morning?

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, May 6, 2006 Aminta Goyel, writer and director of “The Morning Fog” and producer Paul Ratner came to our house with their film after we had been up all night on the last cue for “The Black Shield”, with Tomas recording live upright bass in the hallway and me at Digtal [...]

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The Black Shield – The Movie!

By Kelly Mahan Jaramillo, June 9th 2006 Just heard from Martin Hudson, the director of the short film “The Black Shield”, where Tomas wrote the score and editor Steve Delisi had to put up with my long distance calls screaming “No, No, we want the original cut!!!” We swear that we are not control freaks, swear, [...]

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