December 31, 2001
Creative Soundscapes leaves 2001 with a bang having recently secured a number of new licenses of Cato's music for the marketing campaigns of major motion pictures. Universal Studios decided to market "Spy Game" in part by using the hard hitting techno piece "Stalker". Others include "Showtime" (Warner Bros.), "Texas Ranger" (Miramax), "The Phantom Menace" (LucasFilm Ltd. - additional cues), "Out Cold" (Disney/ Buena Vista) and more...

As we're entering a new year that shows great promise for the continued and expanding interest in the music of Cato and Creative Soundscapes, most major studios have already inquired about music for several of their upcoming features. In addition there are several exiting new original scoring projects in the pipeline. Creative Soundscapes and Cato have also decided to participate in a CD promo project by the Film Music Magazine where a 4 minute montage of our music will be included on a CD to be distributed extensively throughout the industry, including at the South By Southwest International Film Festival (March, 2002), the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (April, 2002) and the San Francisco International Film Festival (April, 2002). Please contact us if you want a copy of this montage.

September 19, 2001
Creative Soundscapes recently produced the music of composer Cato for the cutting edge feature length documentary "Modern Tribalism". MT, which deals with modern peoples newfound interest in ancient tribal rituals, required Cato to deliver a highly eclectic blend of electronica flavored world music, all of which is now available for (non-competitive) licensing from Creative Soundscapes for your production.

The film has already screened to rave reviews at the Atlanta Int'l Film Festival and at the San Francisco Digital Underground Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Saturday September 22 MT will screen locally at the Silverlake Film Festival, followed by screenings at the following festivals:

NEW YORK: INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILM MARKET
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 9:00 AM (yes, that's morning) Angelika Film Center, 18 West Houston Street at the corner of Mercer Theater 3 (http://www.ifp.org/ for info)

DENVER: DENVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 9:00PM Tivoli go to http://www.denverfilm.org or call 303.595.3456 to Purchase Tickets

HONOLULU: HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 2 - 11 (no screening date yet; check http://www.hiff.org for updates)

ST. LOUIS: ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 8 - 18 (probably screening the eve of Friday, November 16; check http://www.sliff.org/2001/films.html for hard date and details)

OJAI, CALIFORNIA: OJAI FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 8 - 12 (no screening date yet; check http://filmfestival.ojai.net for updates)

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO: SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
DECEMBER 5 - 9 (no screening date yet; check http://www.thesantafefilmfestival.com for details)

May 7, 2001
Composer Cato and Creative Soundscapes, Inc., in affiliation with Music Junkies, recently supplied the crucial last minute of musical underscore for the "The Mummy Returns" theatrical trailer, hitting theatres country-wide during the weeks before the films killer opening weekend. In fact, according to the Hollywood Reporter, "The Mummy Returns" tallied an impressive $68.14 million to claim the top spot and set the record for biggest nonholiday three-day weekend debut ever, ahead of "Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace" that previously held the top spot.