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Buffalo Composer Featured on NPR's Morning Edition for Sci-Fi Theme Music So very excited to have my sci-fi version of the Morning Edition Theme Featured today at NPR! :) The NPR Morning Edition team offered a musical challenge: rewrite the Morning Edition Theme. For fun, I decided to go all spacy and crazy with it! Check it out!  LISTEN TO MORNING EDITION NOW: http://www.npr.org/2016/05/18/478488972/-morning-edition-sci-fi-theme-is-out-of-this-world The Composer's Wacky Spacy Inspiration I imagined what would happen if the entire Morning Edition Staff found themselves stranded on the planet Mars in a retro-1980s parallel universe , complete with cheesy bedazzled astronaut suits and neon lights, surrounded by Dalek -inspired cyborgs. I plucked out he main theme on the keys and added in some dissonance and bent pitches to fit the bizarre spacyness of the track playing in my head. I added in the requisite synthesizers, a slight beat, and droid-esque sound ef...

So some of you might know that NPR is currently challenging listeners to remix the Morning Edition Theme. Happy to oblige, I already created a sci-fi edition you can check out below! But there have been a few folks jumping on the Morning Edition bandwagon, so check them out!  READ MORE ABOUT THE MORNING EDITION THEME CHALLENGE AT NPR Got a special THANK YOU From the Morning Edition Staff for my Bizarro Martian Morning Edition IN SPACE. Sabrina Pena Young Martian Morning Edition in Space David Bartell's Ukelele version of the NPR Morning Edition Theme Joshsklair Gives listeners a Bluesy Morning Edition Tune A Beautiful Piano Version of the NPR Morning Edition Theme by libp.productions Jo Kusy wishes us all a "Good morning" in his version of the NPR Music Theme Song Related articles OPB's Morning Edition 042716 FIRST MENTION: It was 1983 when Morning Edition ran a story... Steve Julian, KPCC and NPR News Anchor, Dies at 57 NPR Morning Edit...

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Musician Insider Secrets: The Low Down on Social Media Exposed in 5 Easy Tips You might be like many of the musicians that contact me every day about social media . Maybe you don't understand Twitter or Vine , maybe you grew up in the analog era and are intimidated by social media, or maybe you are an expert and just love finding new ways to use social media.  Here are a few tips that have helped me succeed in social media music marketing: 1. Don't Be Afraid The Internet can seem to be a crazy place where everything from contortionist elephants to global terrorism fights for your attention.  Don't be afraid to conquer and control your web presence through smart marketing.  What this means is that you need to find what social media platforms work best for you and are the most organic for your audience. What this also means is that from now on you need to treat the Internet like a marketplace, not a place for rants and inappropriate images.  Watch Soci...