July 14, 2009: Bill's score from The Devil's Tomb is now available! Sound clips and more info can be found at MovieScore Media.com The CD is distributed by Screen Archives Entertainment You can download the album in 320kbit mp3 format here Or download the album on iTunes And check out Bill's recent interview chronicling his experience scoring The Devil's Tomb on ScoreNotes.com!
July 12, 2009: Check out Bill's press page for recent interviews and music from Wolfenstein and The Devil's Tomb!
November 17, 2008: CSI:NY The Game (for PC) is coming soon, and will feature music from the hit CBS series composed by Bill Brown. The behind the scenes videos and trailer also feature music by Bill. Stay tuned to the official site for more details and info.
October 25, 2008: "CSI:NY" will mark its 100th episode entitled "My Name is Mac Taylor" with the arrival of a new detective, played by Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall, Sabrina), the return of Nelly as a confidential informant, and Chris Daughtry and Rumer Willis as the targets of a serial killer. CBS will air the episode Nov. 19. Check out season 4 of CSI:NY on DVD at amazon.com and stay tuned to Season 5 of CSI:NY for more of Bill's score!
September 1, 2008: Bill recently completed the score for the upcoming film The Devil's Tomb, an action thriller directed by Jason Connery, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron Perlman, Ray Winstone, Taryn Manning, Henry Rollins, and Valerie Cruz in a film about an elite group of soldiers on a covert mission to retrieve a scientist from an underground lab. In the process they encounter an ancient evil. Read more about The Devil's Tomb and stay tuned here for more info as it becomes available.
August 1, 2008: Killer Tracks recently released "Video Game Trailers", a music library that includes new music by Bill Brown for licensing in film, trailers, television and games. APM and Electronic Arts have also recently made some of Bill's game music available for licensing. Check out The official EA/APM site for more details about licensing Bill's music from Command & Conquer: Generals and epic adventure music from The Lord Of The Rings video games.
September 7, 2007: Music4Games has a new feature about the development of Bill's music for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars including five new cues from the game in mp3 format and an exclusive link to the official Splash Damage / Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars music blog.
August 8, 2007: Check out Bill's new GSoundtracks interview, a conversation with Oliver Ittensohn of GSoundtraks.com about the new era of game music, season 4 of C.S.I. New York (CSI:NY is also available on DVD at Amazon.com), and Bill's most recent projects, including Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, featuring audio examples, and more!
May 31, 2007: Bill was recently honored to receive the BMI TV Music Award for CSI: NY season 3 at the BMI annual Film & Television Awards dinner held May 16, 2007 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Photo of Bill receiving award.
August 20, 2006: CSI:NY season 3 premieres on Wednesday, September 20th ~ Bill returns as the composer for an exciting new season of CSI:NY - stay tuned! And check out Bill's CSI Files interview from season 1 here. CSI: NY season 2 will be available on DVD this fall. New episodes of CSI:NY are available on iTunes.
August 31, 2005: New Music from The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Vivendi Universal/Sierra/Radical) has been posted. Music4Games has also posted an article about the Hulk:UD recording session with the Hollywood Studio Symphony. Bill's full score for Hulk:UD is now available on iTunes.
June 30, 2005: Bill is excited to announce he will be composing the music for season 2 of the hit TV series CSI: NY this fall. The second season begins September, 2005 on CBS. CSI: NY season 1 will be available on DVD this fall.
June 30, 2005: Bill was recently honored to receive the BMI TV Music Award for CSI: NY at the BMI annual Film & Television Awards dinner held May 18 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. .
June 30, 2005: Bill's "Rainbow Six" suite and music from "Ghost Recon" is scheduled to be performed live by the L.A. Philharmonic and choir at the VIDEO GAMES LIVE Concert at the Hollywood Bowl on July 6th 2005 and new tour dates have been added across the country. For tickets and more information visit http://www.videogameslive.com. Update: Bill is featured in a video from the concert.
June 30, 2005: PRESS RELEASE Quote: "Acclaimed composer Bill Brown created the impressive soundtrack for The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Vivendi Universal Games/Sierra Entertainment). Brown worked with the Hollywood Film Orchestra to perform the original score. Brown is currently the composer for the hit CBS television series, "CSI: NY," and his previous credits include composing and producing music for feature films such as 'Any Given Sunday', 'Ali' and 'Finding Forrester'." Photos have been added from the Hulk orchestra recording session and the percussion session.
June 30, 2005: Lineage 2: Chronicle 2 - Age of Splendor and Chronicle 3 - Rise of Darkness (NCsoft) have now been released. Samples of Bill's Chronicle 2 music recorded with live orchestra in Seattle are available for download on the official site. The Original Lineage 2 Soundtrack CD Bonus Disk is available for purchase from Bill's Store.
June 30, 2005: In February, 2005, Bill bid a fond farewell to his friends and colleagues at Soundelux DMG and started his own company, Bill Brown Music, Inc. Bill is now represented by Randy Gerston at First Artists Management, Los Angeles. Photos of Bill's new Studio.
December 1, 2004: The Lady Death Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD is now available for purchase, featuring 27 tracks (74 minutes) of music from the film, composed and produced by Bill Brown.
October 5, 2004: Bill is pleased to announce that he is the composer for CSI: NY, the new CBS television series which premiered on September 22, 2004. Emmy-award winner Gary Sinise headlines the newest spin-off of the hugely successful CSI franchise. Check your local listings for "Crime Scene Investigation: New York" showtimes.
October 5, 2004: Check out the GameSpot write-up about The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth (EALA) which features comments about the music from Audio Director Mical Pedriana. Pre-order the game from Bill's Store. The full score for The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth is available on iTunes.
October 5, 2004: Lady Death - The Motion Picture (ADV Films) is now available for purchase in DVD format from Bill's Store. Watch Bill's Store for the upcoming release of Bill's "Lady Death - The Motion Picture" Soundtrack.
July 26, 2004: View the newly released Film Trailer for Lady Death - The Motion Picture featuring Bill's music in high, medium or low bandwidth formats.
July 4, 2004: Lady Death - The Motion Picture (ADV Films) is expected to be released in October on DVD. The film is set to debut with a screening at Comic-Con in San Diego California on Friday July 23, 2004. Photos from Bill's Lady Death Choral session recorded at Signet Studios LA in May 2004 have just been posted and you can listen to a sampling of music from Bill's Lady Death score.
July 4, 2004: Lineage 2: Chronicle 1 - Harbingers of War (NCsoft) North American release was launched on June 28, 2004 and is available from Bill's Store along with the limited Bonus CD that features some of Bill's soundtrack. A photo from the recently completed Chronicle 2: Age of Splendor Orchestra recording session has also been posted, along with Bill's music track from the video trailer from Chronicle 2: Age of Splendor that was shown at E3-2004 in May. You can view the E3 trailer and others from Bill's Store page and watch for some of Bill's music from Chronicles 1 and 2 to be posted soon.
July 4, 2004: Music4Games has recently posted an article about the live orchestra session for Lineage II: Chronicle 1 - Harbingers of War (NCsoft) listing the production team and quoting Bill, An Yong Jin the Sound Director for the game and Stacey Yoon the Executive Creative Director on the experience.
May 4, 2004: Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (NCsoft), the much-anticipated prequel to the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Lineage, is now available in stores and for a limited time, the Bonus Disk which includes a sampling of the Lineage II soundtrack is also available at Bill's Store! Listen to a sampling of Bill's Lineage II music and view cinematic trailers.
March 14, 2004: New music from "Athena Sword", the first Expansion for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (UbiSoft) has just been posted. Athena Sword is now available in stores and at Bill's Web Store with free shipping.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 for Playstation 2 is also now available and the upcoming Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm, Command & Conquer: Generals for the Mac and other titles are also available for pre-order at Bill's Store.
March 14, 2004: We have just posted Bill's string arrangement titled Round 8 Strings which was featured in the film ALI Directed by Michael Mann (Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures). Bill's string arrangement was written for the song "Tomorrow" by Salif Keita and transitions from Bill's cue "Prequel Strings" through the song and into the end credits of the film. The recording was performed by the Hollywood orchestra at the Sony recording stage in Los Angeles, CA.
March 14, 2004: Another track from Bill's Command & Conquer: Generals (EA) soundtrack titled USA 8, has also been added. Generals received the 2003 Computer Strategy Game of the Year Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
March 14, 2004: Bill's score for Lineage II: the Chaotic Chronicle (NCsoft) has been nominated for the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) 2003 awards in the following categories:<
- Best Live Performance Recording
- Best Cinematic / Cut-Scene Audio
- Best Original Vocal Song - Choral
January 21, 2004: Bill is currently working on a new film titled Lady Death with Writer/Director/Producer Carl Macek ("Robotech The Movie") and Producer/Art Director Andy Orjela of ADV Films. Based on the popular comic book series of the same name, "Lady Death" is being produced as an all-digital, wide-screen, feature length film and is scheduled for release on DVD in October 2004.
January 21, 2004: For a limited time, Pre-order Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (NCsoft) from Bill's Store and receive a special bonus including the Original Soundtrack by Bill Brown, trailers, concept art, free shipping, access to the Lineage II North American Beta test and more. Listen to some of Bill's Lineage II music and view the cinematic trailers.
January 21, 2004: Bill will be speaking at the upcoming Game Developers Conference panel presentation titled The Virtual and Mixed Media Orchestra for Game Music in March along with fellow composers Doyle Donehoo, Jeremy Soule and Maarten Spruijt.
Attendees of this session are given a unique insight into the capabilities, options, tools and methods available to the modern day composer, from the computer based virtual orchestra to the mixture of the virtual and the live recorded orchestra, with the primary focus on orchestral game music. Pencil and paper composers to the technologist composer learn about the latest developments in software, hardware and sampleware products as well as learning about the marriage of music technology combined with recorded live musicians from some of the most knowledgeable practitioners of music technology in game music. The game producer and audio director gain knowledge about the capabilities and options in orchestral game music, as well as learning about the pro and con tradeoffs of various approaches to orchestral game music.
January 21, 2004: Bill appeared as a guest artist at the Native Instruments booth on the final day of the 2004 NAMM Show and had the opportunity to share his experiences in scoring for film, TV and games and also his favorite aspects of Native Instruments innovative synth and sampler technology. Update: A photo of Bill at NAMM has been added to the Photos Page.
January 21, 2004: Photos from Bill's recent wedding in Rancho Palos Verdes have been added to the Photos page.
