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Cat Herder · Post by **Cat Herder** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:36 pm

Hey Hookjaw,

Actually when I am taking auditions I prefer a web link. It is easy to store and seldom gets lost. The beauty of an e-mail is that it takes up no room, but you can give me all the info I need which cannot fit on a CD cover, and bulky extra papers.

I always recommend at least a 192 kbs mp3 link (of course 320 is better). This bit rate is necessary to get a good feel of where the piece resides on the bar. I have heard some prefer CD's so they can listen in their car. Not sure I can properly evaluate the nuances of string articulation, or the properties of a Bassoon in my car stereo (I need my Mackies). I have seldom, if ever, known of a stick request.

I store the entire e-mail in a special folder, and when I start looking, or decide to take some review time I am just a few clicks away (TAXI page, Soundcloud, youtube, etc). I hate downloads. That is just a bunch of housekeeping I have to deal with. I'm lazy, and I want it easy.

When I have decided a composer has what it takes I move the entire e-mail into a pending folder and tag the composer as a potential composer for the next step.

Hope This Helps

Cruciform · Post by **Cruciform** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:46 pm

Hey CatHerder,

You're meant to be resting up! Get off the computer and go relax.

Cat Herder · Post by **Cat Herder** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:23 pm

Yep! Been a rough week

cardell · Post by **cardell** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:30 pm

@Cat Herder: Another question please - Why is it that there is often such short notice given by the library, regarding its requirements, to its writers?

Is it a secrecy issue? If not on the libraries part, then secrecy from the libraries customers?

Stuart

Cat Herder · Post by **Cat Herder** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:13 pm

It is the client that dictates the timeline. Mostly it is Harpo for us because their projects are often works in progress with short cutoffs to the producers. A music supervisor may get only 24 to 48 hours to turn up an original cue. I was once contacted at 1:00 AM to produce a piece to go live broadcast at 9:00 AM the next morning, and that scene was used to secure an Emmy Nomination for Best Music Composition and Direction. Unfortunately Sesame Street won. So when those hurry ups come in, jump on them. They may make a difference on how a supervisor learns to lean on you. That was done after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and we became the top provider for that show (the largest in daytime TV history) through it's last season (2011), and continue to be the go-to group today for their other syndicated and network shows and projects. So to answer it is not secrecy, it is what they want, and we give them what they want, "AND THEN SOME".

cardell · Post by **cardell** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:36 am

Thank-you, very helpful once again.

Cat Herder wrote:... it is what they want, and we give them what they want, "AND THEN SOME".

Love that attitude man!

Stuart

pedrocosta · Post by **pedrocosta** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:17 am

Just came back to this thread and re-read from the top.
Had read through when I first joined Taxi but it was all a bit muddy in my mind at the time.
Much clearer now and I have learned a lot

Many thanks to Cat et al!

Cat Herder · Post by **Cat Herder** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:53 am

Thanks Pedro, That matters.

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