"Scene Starters" & "Tasking Tracks"?

[madkeys88]

I have a few songs signed with a library and the library is asking me if I have any "Scene Starters" and/or "Tasking" tracks. Can someone tell me what they mean by those terms? Is it basically "Cues"? Thanks for your input!
Mark

[cosmicdolphin]

Never come across those terms before, hopefully someone who has can chime in...did they give you any reference tracks ?

[AlanHall]

ML has mentioned 'task[ing] music' a few times, a basic underscore that ticks along (sometimes literally) while the actors are doing the task at hand - the specific example is crime lab scenes, where we watch the fingerprint ID happen on the lab's computer or whatever. That's my best guess.

If I had to guess at "scene starters" (and I don't but I will anyway) I'd say something like a stinger that can be used by itself to mark the transition into a new scene. My foggy memory imagines ML talking about a kind of aural thumbprint to set the stage - specific example, a short swampy reso guitar slide in a show about hunting alligators.

edit: CD has better advice than me; you may need to tease the answer from the library without making yourself vulnerable.

[madkeys88]

Thanks guys!

[AlanHall]

Thanks guys!

I'm really hoping there's more comment on this thread. There must be good advice out there somewhere...

[madkeys88]

Me too. Thanks again Alan.