In the paper today: “A $20 million digital centre, where the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will record musical scores for films, is planned for Wellington.”
This is exciting news, I had a meeting with them a few months back when they were doing a lot of industry consulting & apart from total enthusiasm for the project the one proviso I had was that it must not be elitist & given the right support a young composer scoring a short film should ideally be able to access it… So its great to read: “An internship programme and finishing school will be part of the development, on the corner of Taranaki and Abel Smith streets, and is to be completed by 2011.”
Currently when film scores are recorded in NZ, the Michael Fowler centre (a public performance venue) is used & a temporary control room has to be installed every time, as was done for Under The Mountain recently recording Victoria Kellys score and similarly last year recording Havier Navarrettes score for Laundry Warrior.
Trustee Elizabeth Kerr said it was dedicated to creating a facility that could help New Zealand be seen as a total solution for film production, right through to musical scoring. “At the moment we are constrained by not having a state-of-the-art facility,” Ms Kerr said.
I think an important aspect of this development will be the idea of the NZ Symphony Orchestra rehearsing & recording in the same space – it would be permanently rigged for recording, so every rehearsal could be a potential recording session which is ideal for training the interns…
It is so great to see a city get behind & support its creative industries. Sadly in New Zealand it seems sport is the predominant art-form (& religion) and the vast sums being spent on the Thugby World Cup makes this seem even more important i.e. a permanent addition to the cultural & creative landscape – god speed!
Fabulous to finally see it’s gotten through the “wouldn’t it be great?” phase and onto something so much more tangible.
Time for a career shift methinks
BRING IT ON!!!!!