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![[press release]](../../images/banner/press_release.gif)
BT'S STEALTH SCORE
FIRES DIRECT HIT
Collaborates with David Bowie for song on soundtrack
Score album in stores August 30 from Varese Sarabande
(Hollywood, CA) Versatile composer and electronica musician BT has reteamed with director Rob Cohen on Stealth, 2005's summer blockbuster from Columbia Pictures, in theaters July 29. Jamie Foxx, Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel star in the epic action thriller about a squadron of elite pilots out to neutralize an out of control drone fighter jet equipped with artificial intelligence. The score will set the tone for this summer's most vivid and intense action sequences. BT created an architecture of modernist orchestral music to fuel Stealth's thrill of speed, excitement of chase and ferocity of combat. The Stealth soundtrack was released July 12 on Sony Music, the score album will be in stores August 30 from Varese Sarabande.
Often composing in algorithmic codes and building instruments using a computer program to make cutting-edge treatments, BT combined both classical orchestral music with his signature electronica sound. "The exciting thing is getting to incorporate some of this musical technology," he says, "You have these real polarities, these big pieces of orchestral music versus this crazy punk-rock sounding code. I'm getting to cover a lot of musical ground, it's great." The score gives him an opportunity to reach into his diverse musical genius; although he is best known as a preeminent electronica artist and producer, on Stealth, he conducted an orchestra of 100 musicians. He also cowrote, produced and performed with icon David Bowie on the soundtrack cut "(She Can) Do That."
A gifted musician with several worldwide hit singles to his credit, BT was an inspired choice when Rob Cohen called on him to score The Fast and the Furious in 2001. With only a handful of scoring credits on his resume, it was a risk, but it paid off big for the movie, the director, and BT. His resume now includes distinctive scores for the actioner Driven, the hip suspense comedy Go, crime thriller Under Suspicion and the critically-acclaimed drama Monster.
Beginning his musical journey at a young age, BT attended the Washington Conservatory of Music and the Julliard Satellite Program where he studied counter point, composition and theory. When he graduated high school he was off to the Berklee College of Music where he studied, among other things, film scoring. His world-renowned album releases of the epic progressive masterpieces IMA and ESCM spawned a slew of top ten singles in England and numerous American Billboard #1 singles such as "Blue Skies" featuring Tori Amos. But it was the wildly diverse Movement in Still Life that got won him widespread recognition in the United States. Since that time he has also expanded his producing credits to include N'Sync's #1 hit single "Pop," as well as, two tracks for Britney Spears. His last album, Emotional Technology, featuring the hit "Simply Being Loved (Somnambulist)," is considered a milestone in electronic innovation.
Currently, BT is on a world tour, performing dates in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He is also scoring and overseeing production on Tommy Lee Goes to College, the NBC reality show he created, and composing for Marcos Siega's next feature film, Underclassman.
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