Welcome to the New Tim Davies web site

It has taken many years to get around to redoing this site but at last I have done it. I have spent several very frustrating days learning how all this works, again! A lot has changed in the world of web design since I made the old Timusic site. Who knew that frames were so naughty? Flash text, don't even think about it, it is a miracle the old site survived and was not shut down by the code police. This new one is so pure, none of them in sight. Please let me know if you find a wrong spelling or broken link

News

[6/14/09]
I am pleased to announce that I have just been commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to write a big band work. The piece will be premiered next year at the ISCM World Music days which are being held in Australia for the first time. I used to submit pieces every year and never once would they play one and now they are going to pay me to write a new piece, I guess some things just take time.
I recently completed work on the game Lost Planet 2 for Jamie Christopherson. We had a 95 piece orchestra at Fox and made some serious noise. Next up is God of War 3. For those who do not know of it, google it, it is a huge Sony game and the score for GOW2, which I also orchestrated and conducted, won lots of awards. I also noticed that Prototype, Infamous and the Sims 3 are call now out. I orchestrated and conducted Prototype, did SSD for Infamous and conducted The Sims 3. I have a few more library tracks that have just come out with X-ray Dog. You can hear some of them on the music page.

DIALMENTIA is out! Get it at Origin Records or on itunes

The new www.TimDaviesBigBand.com is up and ready to go! It is now the place to go for band info. There are tracks from all our recordings and scores to check out. Many thanks go to Paulina [Puniaf.com] and Ted for putting the site together for me, also thanks to Paulina for the great photos.

News Archive

[5/1/09]
I survived my trip to Australia, the bands were all great and we had a huge crowd at the Melbourne release party. Now I am getting ready for the Bakersfield Jazz Festival and our launch party at Typhoon and catching up on all the work I was supposed to do while I was partying in Oz! Hard at work on Lost Planet 2 right now and then once that is done I am onto God of War 3 for a few months. While in Oz I also managed to squeeze in some choir charts for Cris Velasco and Mike Reagan for a game called Darksiders and another transcription for the new Fox show Glee.

[4/25/09]
I am about to jump on the plane back to Australia! It is going to be a full on trip. The gigs are listed below but I am also doing lectures and taking bands at QLD con, VCA, AFTRAS, Sydney and Melbourne Army and Sydney Con. I am also working with several school bands in Melbourne who will then open the show for us. Blackburn will premiere a new piece "Sarahbande". As soon as I get back it is right back to work orchestrating the Lost Planet 2 game and then a big game for Sony to orchestrate and conduct. More details at a later date on that one.

[3/24/09]
March already. Was thinking it may have been a slow year but not so far. I just did some arrangements for Cee-lo Green and producer Salaam Remi. I thought Cee-lo sounded a bit like the guy from Gnarls Barkley, I forgot where I was for a minute, turns out he is the guy from Gnarls Barkley! I had some fun conducting an 87 piece orchestra last week at Fox for Stephen Trask's score to Cirque du Freak for Universal. I also did some orchestrations for Alex Heffes and Mark Kilian on State of Play and Marco Beltrami on Repo Mambo. I just finished a commission for the Loma Linda Academy and am currently working on one for Blackburn High in Melbourne.

[12/15/08]
It is almost the end of the year and I still have not finished the record, that is pretty bad. I have a good reason though, people keep paying me lots of money to do other things! As usual it has been an eclectic mix of projects. Pushing Daisies is in it's 2nd season. As well as orchestrating and conducting you can sometimes hear some jazz on the show and I either wrote it or arranged it. I also had some fun doing some barbershop music for a recent ep. I recently did another bunch of charts for producer Salaam Remi, that is always fun, he sends me a bed and I go to town with an orchestra over the top of it. I did a package of Symphonic Sound Design for the Sony game InFamous and conducted some strings for David Archuleta's new record. My tracks for Extreme Music and X-Ray Dog (track here) are out and last week I orchestrated and conducted the score to the new Monsters Versus Aliens game. But coolest of all was that I got a call to help out with the orchestrations for David Hirschfelder's score for Baz Luhrman's new film Australia, being from Australia, I just had to work on it!