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SMPTE Connect
http://www.youtube.com/user/smpteconnect

SMPTE Timecode gives every frame of video its own unique identifying number, makes digital editing possible, and enables the association of other data to make audio and video even more meaningful, accurate, and repeatable, whether in post for a major studio release or live sports production. It even synchronizes music and is often used to automate lighting, pyrotechnics, video, and other effects in live event production.

Jan Hammer Miami Vice Theme (1984–1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDU-2qMre0

Jan rocks out to the opening theme. Notice how synthesizers are essential to his composition technique.

Stephen Bishop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_OLXvK22q8

Stephen Bishop is a composer and film scorer who has written songs for more than a dozen films including Tootsie and Animal House. In addition to recording his own gold-selling albums, his songs have been recorded by Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Art Garfunkel, among many others. He has been nominated for two Grammys and an Oscar.

Mark Mothersbaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsFe8dfFlKU

Mark Mothersbaugh, founder of landmark post-punk band Devo, talks to Berkleemusic.com about learning to compose for film and television, why an education in music can give you an immeasurable career advantage (and why he wishes he’d gone to music school), what it’s like working with Wes Anderson and Pee-Wee Herman, the connections between his visual art and his sonic art, and more.

The Jazz Singer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyvstNrkHo

“Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye” performed by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927), the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue and music. Listen for the birdcalls too.