Susan Maughlin Wood

Composer for Media and Concert Music

Seattle, WA USA

…is an award-winning independently contracting composer and artist seeking opportunities in film, educational apps, games and other media. While engaged in writing concert repertoire and chamber arrangements she is a visionary of passion projects including festival hits music video “Spectratta” (and its offshoot Butoh dance-fusion “Spectrutoh”) as well as documusic film “Coastal Fire: A Common Diary” which details the emotional fallout from the 2016 US presidential election on a personal and societal level, and which is every bit as relevant for the current election cycle. Susan holds a Master of Music in Film Composition from the Pacific NW Film Scoring Program at SFI, and served as Past President on the Board of Directors of the Seattle Composers Alliance.

Twitches in Anticipation

December 16, 2014  /  Susan MaughlinWood

An old song of mine, "Chameleon," is getting a lot of sudden attention, and I wish I knew what prompted it. Out of the ten songs on the album, this particular track is one of the more highly produced, with the most straightforward lyrics, so I suppose it makes sense in terms of commercial viability. There are other songs, though, that I want to brush off and say "Hey! Look at this pretty one! It's introspective and sensitive and lovely!" But anyway, something has picked it up and looked at it and other things are noticing and also looking at it, seemingly out of nowhere. I'm getting lots of NOI's for this one song (Notice of Intent to License) and so far it is not translating into concrete $ language in my account but it sure is entertaining and fun to speculate. There is apparently some streaming going on. Side note: I have a sudden urge to travel to Luxembourg. Apparently they love me!

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