Symbols of Sound
SoS will be co-hosting a Composer Mixer with other music professionals on Thursday, December 12, in Sherman Oaks! Come join us as we celebrate the holidays and our projects in contention this award season! Hope to see you there!
Register by clicking this link:
LIVE EVENT – December 9 at 1 pm (13:00) PST / 21:00 UTC/GMT
Join Moana 2 composer Mark Mancina, and song transcribers Danita Ng-Poss & Jason Poss, for a live chat on the Film Music Live YouTube Channel hosted by Daniel Schweiger. Bring your questions, and join the discussion Monday, Dec. 9, here:
<Film Music Live with MARK MANCINA, DANITA NG-POSS & JASON POSS>
If you are not able to attend the live discussion, you can watch the recorded video at the same link.
Moana 2, the most recent SoS transcription project, has released in theaters. As with the first film in 2016, Symbols of Sound worked with Disney Character Voices International to transcribe the vocal performances and create sheet music for localization of the film into 45 languages.
Along with the common slate of languages, Moana 2 is dubbed into both Māori and soon Hawaiian. The Māori version is being released in New Zealand simultaneously with the English version. The Hawaiian version, to be dubbed later, is planned to feature Auliʻi Cravalho, who plays Moana in the English version.
Today, the 42nd Annual Golden Joystick Awards announced “Hauntii” as one of six nominees for Best Soundtrack. “Hauntii” is an independent video game whose nomination was a surprise among AAA titles from major, international game developers and publishers.
SoS worked with composer Michael Kirby Ward to help create and record a Hollywood soundtrack on Hauntii’s limited budget. (More info here.) From the moment we began working with Ward’s music, it was clear this was a special soundtrack unlike those found in most independent video games. We are thrilled to see the music recognized among some of the biggest video games of the last year.
Voting for the Golden Joystick Awards is open through November 1, 2024, at <https://goldenjoysticks.com>.
“Agatha All Along” is the latest Disney/Marvel Television live action series for which Symbols of Sound provided vocal music transcription for localization.
Sometimes transcribing can feel like many miles of tricks and trials, but this time the Witches’ Road was straight and clear. That’s good news to Marvel fans around the world who know the importance of the ballad in Agatha’s story.
Fans will hear “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” in their local language when it arrives on Disney+ September 18, 2024.