The Silent Film Music Podcast with Ben ModelThe Silent Film Music Podcast with Ben Modelep. 64: The Fierce Urgency of Silent Film Musicep. 63: Scoring Decisions and Transitionsep. 62: accompanying a Mary Pickford film on campus, Marcel Perez at the Silent Clowns, Monta Bell at MoMA, and moreep. 61: Improvising Themes for Re-Use and Developmentep. 60: Music on the Road: Late Summer – Autumn 2023ep. 59: San Francisco Silent Film Fest, Undercrank’s 10th Anniversary, Tom Mix, and Moreep. 58: “Potato Salad”, TCM Classic Film Festival, Ernie Kovacs, Undercrank Prods 10th Anniversaryep. 57: Recording silent film scores for Tom Mix and Rin Tin Tinep. 56: Back to scoring silent feature filmsep. 55: Music for unconventional silent films and other purposesep. 54: playing different theatre or pipe organs at shows in Oct & Nov 2022ep. 53: underscoring “Frankenstein” (1931), leitmotifs and how often to use them, listener questions, and more.ep. 52: William Perry interview (part 2) – MoMA, Lillian Gish, composing orchestrally for piano, and more.ep. 51: William Perry interview (part 1) – “The Silent Years”, MoMA, and more.ep. 50: Serial Queens, Kovacs Music Videos, and the Charming Raymond Griffithep. 49: Rudolph Valentino, Ernie Kovacs, Buster Keaton, and the Craft of Supporting Subtletiesep. 48: interview with Rick Benjamin, of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestraep. 47: accompanying The Patsy, The Cameraman, and Gilbert Gottfriedep. 46: Kansas Silent Film Festival…and Other In-Person Shows, plus some new Undercrank Projectsep. 45: Home Video Releases, Kickstarters, Marion Davies, Wesleyan and MoMAep. 08 (re-posted): “A Trip to the Moon” in Tromsø, an Organ in Oslo, live comedy show “Everybody Gets Cake”, Marcel Perezep. 07 (re-posted): News From the Road, “Peter Pan”, Hitchcock’s “Blackmail”, physical comedy show “Everybody Gets Cake”ep. 44: Exploring the Music of “City Lights”…From Inside the Scoreep. 06 (re-posted): Re-Starting the Podcast, Recap of 2014, “The Spice of the Program”, Marcel Perez on DVD, Arthur Kleiner, SFSMAep. 05 (re-posted): Marathon of shows, Music for Doug and Mary, Organ Benches and Piano Lightsep. 04 (re-posted): “Accidentally Preserved” Kickstarter, getting clues from film intros, return to Boiseep. 03 (re-posted): Two Silent Griffiths (Raymond and D.W.), Music for Weddings and Funerals, DVDs, Alternate Scoresep. 02 (re-posted): Unidentified films, DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments”, YouTube ethics, The Crowd, and moreep. 01: re-posting of premiere (2012) episodeep. 43: End of the Year 2021 Recap – Part 2ep. 42: End of the Year 2021 Recap – Part 1ep. 41: Live-Scoring for the Virtual Cinema (part 2)ep. 40: Live-Scoring for the Virtual Cinema (part 1)ep. 39: “Adventures in Sound!”ep. 38: scoring for scenes that suggest or specify a piece of music, and scoring a film from 1948ep. 37: Mostly Lost, Keaton’s The Cameraman and The General, an electric organ and Laurel & Hardyep. 36: scoring Robin Hood and a 1927 Carmen, using the orchestral and cartoony sounds of a theatre organ, more live-streamingep. 35: Pottery at the Met, Behind the Door in Nebraska, Eisenstein in Bklyn, Clair on Long Island, plus FAQep. 34: the Silent Comedy Watch Party, scoring Hitchcock, “Intrigue” and Nell Shipman, plus FAQep. 33: two takes on The Rink, organ as orchestra for a horse, melodies underscore Marion Daviesep. 32: meeting audience expectations, tips on choosing a comedy short, and a trip to Nebraskaep. 31: Scoring Dracula, Playing for Pat & Patachon, Reaching Younger Fansep. 30: How To Play the Piano or Organ for a Halloween Silent Movieep. 29: playing for scene breaks & film breaks, Lee Erwin’s Tootsie Oodles, how’d you get that gig? and moreep. 28: scoring Laurel & Hardy, Mostly Lost 7, Lois Weber on organ and moreep. 27: organ sounds from Norway and Idaho, a trip to Hollywood, and using main themesep. 26: reinterpreting 1929 Buster Keaton, playing into a film, anticipating mood transitionsep. 25: performances in Tromsø, mood demos, universality of laughs, fitting hits to music (or not), “Diane” in reel 5ep 24: Stuart Oderman, playing the numbers in Detroit, Show People, The Crowd, DVD newsep. 23: Tromsø, Kansas and Toronto Silent Film Festivals, Hindustan, W.C. Fields, being a 360 creator, Knighthood newsep 22: special “Cruel and Unusual Comedy” podcast episode #3ep 21: special “Cruel and Unusual Comedy” podcast episode #2ep 20: special “Cruel and Unusual Comedy” podcast episode #1coming in January 2017: 3 special episodes of the podcastepisode 19: a trip to Egypt?, Keaton and Lloyd in South Korea, prepping for a 1915 Swedish silentepisode 18: scoring The Bride’s Play, explaining the 1920s jokes, travel to South Korea and Norwayepisode 17: choosing music for a scene, Boise world premiere, Steamboat Bill Jr, Hammond theatre organepisode 16: Norwegian edition – Too Much Johnson, Roald Amundsen, Chaplin’s City Lightsepisode 15: Laurel & Hardy, orchestral Chaplin gig, scoring Technicolor at MoMAepisode 14: silence in the theater, Docks of NY, playing into the film, an orchestral organepisode 13: programming vs. what I like to play for, staying inside a character’s head, legacy piano at NYUepisode 12: cineconventions, music from out-of-print DVDS, being easy to work with, Marcel Perez reviewepisode 11: song cues gone wrong, scoring One Week, Lee Erwin, silents in schoolsepisode 10: presenting silent films to kids and to seniors, interview with Harry Weiss pt 2, listening to the audienceepisode 9: Boise Philharmonic, musical cross-cutting, interview with Harry Weiss pt 1, inspiration for main themes** coming in 2015…the podcast is back! **