Recent News
OBT score at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival - May 27, 2010
Tom Phillips and OBT Music scored the American Experience film "Freedom Riders" for producer Stanley Nelson. The film made good use of a number of OBT music cues as well as a multitude of original cues for the 2 hour doc. The film was accepted into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it premiered and played to packed houses while garnering top shelf reviews. It will play nationally in theaters until January 2011 when it will air on PBS' American Experience. The film is about the bus trips into the deep South in 1961 by a courageous core of Black and White men and women to test the integration laws that supposedly did away with the Jim Crow era. The film chronicles the violence that unfortunately awaited them along the way. The score produced a number of pieces that are now included in the OBT Music library.
OBT Music Wins National Emmy - May 2, 2010
OBT Music and Tom Phillips scored the 2009 Outstanding Science and Nature Documentary Emmy winning film "5 Years on Mars", a National Geographic Channel film produced by veteran filmmaker Mark Davis. The film covers the two Mars Rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, that have lasted over 5 years, 4 and a half years longer than they were expected to last. The music score was about 25% straight from the library, 25% adapted from the library, and 50% originally composed. All of the originally composed pieces are now in the library, mostly in the Science Fiction and Film Score > Contemporary categories.
OBT Currently Scoring American Experience and Planetarium Projects - - August 30, 2010
Scores for the Boston Museum of Science and for American Experience are currently two production projects underway at OBT Music. Tom Martin and Tom Phillips are writing a signature theme for the Boston Museum of Science's newly rebuilt Planetarium. This signature presentation which will begin each show at the Planetarium is receiving an exciting score to accompany a journey from the Earth to deep outside our Galaxy. In addition, OBT Music will score the first feature presentation for the Planetarium exploring the Exoplanets, which will require an unusual musical approach to bring to life things that we can only imagine. Tom Phillips is currently scoring the American Experience (PBS) film called Dino Wars. Taking place in the late 1800's, it chronicles the two paleontologists Marsh and Cope whose discoveries ignited dinosaur mania throughout the world, but whose enmity for each other and subsequent "war" nearly derailed and threatened the science of evolution altogether.