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Hi Film Score friends,
Since I left the soundtrack business a few years ago, I've been writing about the music that made me. Perhaps you’d like to check out how soundtracks changed my life—you may relate!
In addition, there's a link to Apple and Spotify playlists at the bottom of the post. @joesoundtrack
All stories can be found at this link: https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music
Part 01: The Music That Made Me (early influences)
Part 02: Listen to What You Watch (cartoon and TV themes)
Part 03: Switching on Soundtracks (discovering synthesizers)
Part 04: "Strangers In Paradise," or Collecting on a Budget (when LPs were too expensive)
Part 05: Monster-kid Melodies (scoring super-8 movies)
Part 06: Learning the Classics, Easy as R-C-A (Hello, Charles Gerhardt!)
Part 07: I Found It at the Movies (sex and soundtracks in the mid-70s)
Part 08: A Long Time Ago, in a City Far By the Bay (life gets very sci-fi)
Part 09: It Was the Best of Times, It Was blah, blah, blah... (The Early Eighties)
Part 10: Dark Days Are Made of This (MTV, Nuclear Winter and a New Hope)
Part 11: A New Source for Sound (The Dawn of CDs and return of Norman Bates)
Part 12: When Saturn Came Back (An amazing new record shop amidst the rubble)
Part 13: The Loneliness of the Soundtrack Listener (real life and scores collide)
Part 14: Connecting the Little Black Dots (Afternoons at Intrada)
Part 15: I Had It All Figured Out (Meeting that guy from Martha's Vineyard)
Part 16: Putting It Down On Paper (Going to work for FSM)
Part 17: Enter Through the Rear Door (Recording with the RSNO, part 1)
Part 18: The Most Profound Silence (Recording with the RSNO, part 2)
Part 19: Herrmann at Glasgow's Centre
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Joe Sikoryak was art director/designer/editor for 800 soundtrack CDs from 1997-2016. He’s worked with FSM, Intrada, Percepto and La-La Land as well as a number of composers. Joe is currently writing and drawing a graphic novel about the early days of genre conventions. You can follow #Joe_Sikoryak on Instagram and at www.joesikoryak.com
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Hi Film Score friends,
Since I left the soundtrack business a few years ago, I’ve begun writing and drawing comics. I've been posting weekly essays and drawings—and now it’s time to write about the music that made me. Perhaps you’d like to check out how soundtracks changed my life.
I’ll post the latest link every week, and I’d welcome your comments on the board or on my site. I hope you have a little fun reading along. Thanks for checking it out!
Part one: The Music That Made Me
https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/the-music-that-made-me
Beautiful! Look forward to reading more!
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Joe Sikoryak was art director/freelance designer for 800 soundtrack CDs from 1997-2016. He’s worked for FSM, Intrada, Percepto and La-La Land as well as a number of composers. Joe is currently at work on a graphic novel about the early days of genre conventions. You can follow him #Joesoundtrack on Instagram and at www.joesikoryak.com
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Beautiful! Look forward to reading more!
Thanks Mike! I'll have a second entry next Sunday.
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I've got another installment of my soundtrack memoir, perhaps you'd enjoy taking a look. Previous links are collected in the first post. Thanks!
Part two: Listen to What You Watch
https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/listen-to-what-you-watch
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Joe Sikoryak was art director/freelance designer for 800 soundtrack CDs from 1997-2016. He’s worked for FSM, Intrada, Percepto and La-La Land as well as a number of composers. Joe is currently at work on a graphic novel about the early days of genre conventions. You can follow him #Joesoundtrack on Instagram and at www.joesikoryak.com
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The fourth installment of "My Adventures in Underscore" has just dropped and you can find it here:
https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music
This week's tale is set in the early '70s when two bucks could buy a lot, but maybe not as many records as you'd like... so what's a nascent soundtracker to do?
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Yipes, how did I miss this the first time?
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Yipes, how did I miss this the first time?
Glad you made it this week, Sir David!
This week's entry is of a classical bent, with a little swashbuckling and great white sharks in the soundtrack mix. you can find all six quick reads here:
https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music
Thanks for taking a look!
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These are a total joy. Thank you!
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These are a total joy. Thank you!
Thanks so much for reading along, John!
Just wanted to say that future installments will be coming every other week. Watch for my (very) personal take on Sex and Soundtracks in the Seventies on July 1. And sooner or later, we'll get to meeting That Kid From Martha's Vineyard, Entering Intrada and other juicy bits.
Meantime, you can catch up on all the previous entries here:
https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music
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Hi gang! We're back with chapter seven of my soundtrack stories. This week explores sex and scary movies during the mid-seventies, with teenage awkwardness and lessons learned for good measure.
https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music
Perhaps you can relate... Thanks for reading!
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Yipes, how did I miss this the first time?
I missed it too. I just read the first installment, and my Dad had probably the same tape recorder, that I got to play with as a kid. It was a monophonic Webcor machine that closed up like a fat gray suitcase. Big square microphone, the whole bit. But I didn't start obsessively taping TV themes until he got me a cassette recorder.
I can see this is going to be a very relatable memoir here in the FSM community.
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Hi gang! We're back with chapter seven of my soundtrack stories. This week explores sex and scary movies during the mid-seventies, with teenage awkwardness and lessons learned for good measure.
https://www.joesikoryak.com/blog/categories/music
Perhaps you can relate... Thanks for reading!
I read this too fast. I thought it said "teenage stewardesses"! 
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Yipes, how did I miss this the first time?
I missed it too. I just read the first installment, and my Dad had probably the same tape recorder, that I got to play with as a kid. It was a monophonic Webcor machine that closed up like a fat gray suitcase.
I can see this is going to be a very relatable memoir here in the FSM community.
Thanks for reading, Zap! I aim to be relatable, just not always, to everyone...
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There needs to be more memoirs like this. It was a giddy time.
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