Jonathan Zalben Gears for Multi DVD Releases

Online, August 11, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Original Scores by Jonathan Zalben:

There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane:
http://jonathanzalben.com/elements/audioreel/ZalbenADQ.html

Son of Morning:
http://jonathanzalben.com/elements/audioreel/ZalbenSOM.html

Still riding the success of There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane, HBO's highest rated documentary of the last five years, composer Jonathan Zalben is preparing for the DVD release of two more examples of his work.

First to stores is the DVD release of The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, the latest from celebrated Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock. The well-received documentary about branding, advertising and product placement comes to retail August 23.

Quickly following is the DVD premiere of Son of Morning, a satire on the modern media age from director Yaniv Raz in which a young copywriter becomes the most famous man on the planet, overnight, when he is mistaken as the next messiah. Son of Morning is scheduled for release September 13.

Still airing exclusively on HBO, There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane revisits the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler. Almost exactly two years before this documentary made its HBO debut, Schuler rose to infamy when she drove the wrong way on New York's Taconic Parkway for nearly two miles before smashing into an oncoming SUV leaving a devastating death tally of eight people including Schuler's own daughter. The film investigates the enduring mysteries of the incident in an effort to understand what went wrong.

Known for his long history of providing compelling music on both the big and small screens, Zalben's music has helped drive the action of films including Doubletime (Discovery) directed by Stephanie Jones; City of Borders (ITVS) directed by Yun Suh; Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain (HBO) directed by Mitch McCabe; and The Perfect Life directed by Sam Lee, which is part of the New York Public Library's Yip Harburg Collection.

In addition, the composer has written original music (and sometimes even played violin) for Gods of Circumstance (Cineville: John Schneider, Brian Krause), Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (Lionsgate / Xenon Pictures: Jason Alexander, Method Man, Billy Dee), Kissing Cousins (David Allen Grier, Jaleel White). In addition, he orchestrated the music for Repo: The Genetic Opera (Lionsgate / Twisted Pictures: Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega, Sarah Brightman, Anthony Head).

He has received grants from the Experimental TV Center through the New York State Council on the Arts, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Manhattan Community Arts Fund and Swing Space Program, US Navy, and the National Academy of Sciences. His multimedia work has been presented at the Boston Public Library during Boston Cyberarts, Art Without Walls in Central Park, Knitting Factory, PS122, HERE Art Center, Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church, and Galapagos Art Space. He was a research fellow at the US Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory and has also been in residence at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam.

Zalben received an MA in music composition and multimedia from New York University, a BA in music from Yale University, and studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College. His company First Frame Music provides music supervision for a wide range of films and also handles music licensing and score.

Zalben's music for film, theater, and television has been shown at Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, Berlin, LA Film Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, and Chicago SketchFest. His orchestral works have been performed by the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and the New York University Orchestra. Zalben holds a U.S. patent for a muffler design.

August, 2011
"There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane" airs in Aug on HBO
Morgan Spurlock's "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" DVD and digital release
"Bits and Pieces" debut compilation album digital release on iTunes
"Bellflower" DVD release 8/5
"Doubletime" digital release on iTunes

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