Ben Montalbano: Music composer in Champaign, Illinois.

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What's your take on music for films these days? How important do you think music is in a film? In my experience as a film composer, I've noticed a tendency amongst the new generation of independent film makers where they ask more and more for "minimal" music; less instruments, less notes, more subtle, experimental, etc.. I'm wondering where film music will be 10-15 years from now! Intriguing, but exciting for us composers for sure.

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Hey Ben, a few days ago we implemented a new privacy setting to give you the option of accepting private messages only from users within your network. Today, I discovered a bug with the way this option is set for new users. I just wanted to let you know that the bug is now fixed, so all members are now able to receive private messages from any other member (the default setting). If you'd like to receive private messages only from users within your network, you can change this setting here. Also, you can access your privacy settings at any time from the drop-down menu that appears when you hover over your profile photo in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Can you please vote for Robert Castillo (Student Oscar Winner) for his short coming to NY. It is in 2nd place competing for a screening at Sundance. After hitting link. On next page you must hit FB button. It must say successfully voted to count. Thanks http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/af2b005260bf9389ebf14... Coming to NY. by Robert Castillo

Hi Ben! We just launched the trailer for my new web series airing January 10th. Please check it out, and if you like it, share it on your facebook / twitter! Thank you!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIxn6LVlgcU&feature=feedu Cheers, Amy

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