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  • Alternate Scores for Silent Films on Home Video

    Alternate Scores for Silent Films on Home Video

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    Ben Model
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    A couple weeks ago TCM aired The Love Light with Mary Pickford, and there was some Twitter chatter I picked up on about it referencing the score on it. This made me think about my now-defunct “altscore” site. It was a service loads of people thought was a great idea but which didn’t catch on.…

  • Another happy altscore.com customer

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    Ben Model

    Over the weekend, someone bought and downloaded my piano score MP3 that synchs with the Kino DVD/VHS of Sherlock Jr. with Buster Keaton. I opened my virtual mailbag this morning to find this kind note: I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your making the “Sherlock Jr.” piano score available. I watched…

  • 5 shows performed, 2 bass strings replaced, 1 recording for Kino

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    Ben Model

    July 12 – Weds and Thurs I played to Keaton’s The General, Lloyd’s The Freshman, and Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. in the Titus 1 theater at MoMA. The Miditzer theatre organ sounded great in there (T1 is the bigger of the three theaters at MoMA). Shows were well-attended, and I saw some familiar faces who brought…

  • Recording; Kirsanov prep

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    Ben Model

    July 3 – watched Menilmontant and Brumes d’automne this morning; these films are on one of the discs of Avante Garde, a multi-disc DVD set of experimental and avante garde art films in the Rohauer collection that came out a couple years ago. Watched them films with sound off, to better hear any music or…

  • last minute prep for Donnell show

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    Ben Model

    July 1: Took a little time this afternoon to take a second glance at the screener of De Luxe Annie with Norma Talmadge, which I’m accompanying tomorrow at the Donnell Media Center auditorium. The show is part of the “Meet the Music Makers” series curated by Joe Yransky (the “Y” is silent, FYI) which is…

  • altscore.com plugged on Bioscope blog

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    Ben Model

    There’s a nice write-up on my altscore.com site at the Bioscope blog, run by Luke McKernan. Click here to read it!

  • altscore.com site launched!

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    Ben Model

    This week I launched www.altscore.com, finally. I’ve had this idea for several months but have finally had the down time to build the site and record scores for it. The site is a place where people can purchase and download MP3’s of piano or organ scores by me for silent films they have on DVD.…