INFORMATION FOR FILMMAKERS ABOUT VIVEK MADDALA

Award-winning composer for film, TV, new-media

Outline of compensation details for filmmakers:

-Willing to compose new music for films
-All music rights available for purchase
-Music available for film festival usage only
-All rates are negotiable
-Contact me for pricing
-Willing to contribute music for film festival and promotional usage gratis

=Vivek is an international award-winning composer whose music blends orchestral, jazz, and ethnic textures. He has written scores for 20 films and TV shows, ranging from features to TV series.

Filmmaker's contact: vivek@maddala.com

http://www.maddala.com

http://www.myspace.com/vivekmaddalamusic

"Vivek's artistic vision is striking, cinematic, and beautiful..."
-Tom Karsch, Turner Entertainment

Vivek's film scoring background has been diverse: over the past six years, he has composed and orchestrated several acclaimed music scores for Turner Classic Movies, ranging from his 74-minute dramatic Ace of Hearts (2000) score, to his 90-minute lush score for the Greta Garbo film, The Mysterious Lady (2002); he composed the anthemic score for The Flag (2002), and the 80-minute orchestral score for the Marion Davies comedy, The Patsy (2004); recently, Vivek began scoring the restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s, The Ring, and in late 2006 he completed a new 90-minute orchestral score for the suspense-thriller Wild Oranges.

Independent films have become a primary medium for Vivek’s music: he composed the Indian-influenced rock score for Equation (2002); the jazz-infused romantic score for Martha's Bakery (2003); and a unique brand of Carnatic Indian music for Gidoo's Cosmic Crisis (2005). In the past two years, Vivek completed scores for Omar & Fiona (2005), Moon Chasing (2005), Mother (2005), Portland at Play (2006), Catch Up (2006), Grasshopper (2006), Walking Tall (2007), They Turned Our Desert Into Fire (2007), and Whispers from Poland (2007) -- all containing Vivek’s signature sound.

In addition to film scoring, Vivek has written music for national TV spots and songs for pop/rock and jazz-fusion CD releases. Further, his music has been featured in news stories by NPR, the Associated Press, CNN, Crossfader, Variety, and Entertainment Tonight.

When scoring films, Vivek goes beyond the primary functions of movie music -- i.e., of supplementing and strengthening the visual and emotional components. He speaks with his own personal style, his own musical voice. He supplies a product that is not just background music, but that characterizes and frames the pictures -- above all, serving the dramatic vision of the director. Elegant musical motifs, careful orchestration, and a wealth of instrumentation all combine to give Vivek's music a distinctive flavor that moves gracefully between tradition and innovation; with equal parts euphoria and introspection; frantic while elegant; drunken yet precise; and utterly human.

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CDs of Vivek's scores to the Warner Bros. films "The Patsy" and "Wild Oranges" are available at Amazon.com, CDBaby, iTunes, and other locations.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/maddala
http://cdbaby.com/cd/maddala2

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