Chris Field (composer)

In 2020, Field released his third album "Beneath the Sun", an orchestral work which includes new music derived from his most popular film trailer themes, available on iTunes and all major platforms. Field released his second album "Personal Elegy", a rock album, in 2015. This album is classic rock, vintage rock, and retro seventies. The original music and lyrics are presented in a retrospective of classic rock styles, in high audio fidelity. This album is not available to the public but is for license only. The track "Movin'", about being tired of being in the same scene, and needing a change, has been licensed for a number of major television shows.

Field co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered the jazz album "Distance Traveled", in 2014, for David Becker Tribune. This album is available for sale in digital format on iTunes, cdbaby, and Amazon.

Field's trailer composition, "Acts of Courage" was made available to the public, for sale for the first time on the album "This Is Epic Music, Volume I", through Imperativa Records, in 2014. Prior to that time, Field's trailer compositions were never made available for sale. Since that time, X-Ray Dog has released its catalogue of Field's music to the public for sale. In 2017, the pieces "Act of Courage" and "The Vision", respectively, reached the number 1 and number 9 positions for top sales in the X-Ray Dog catalogue on iTunes.

Field released his debut album, "Sub-Conscious" in 2006; it was made available on iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon.com, and for retail sale. It received a positive reception, and his song "Floating" from the album reached spot number eight in the New Age genre for iTunes in Luxembourg on July 7, 2011. Sub-Conscious was awarded Best Neo-Classical Album, 2006, by New Age Reporter.

Field was raised in the San Fernando Valley. He played guitar in Los Angeles for a period of time as a young man. He contributed to productions including electric guitar, jazz, and rock music. He acquired his first computer about 1998, wherein he began to learn musical composition and production. He experimented by taking compositions from Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Prokofiev, and inputting them electronically into his computer. He noted in a 2006 interview that his wife Katie O'Brien Field helped with promotion of his music.

He met associate Mitch Lijewski through his guitar playing, and was introduced to Tim Stithem. Lijewski and Stithem started X-Ray Dog and he started contributing musical composition through work with this firm. Field has worked as a composer for theatrical trailers for films. His trailer musical composition work has included films such as X-Men, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, XXX, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Hotel Rwanda, Kinsey, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.{{cite news|url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/2006/summer/radar/chrisfield.html|accessdate=June 14, 2013|title=Picture This – Chris Field|first=Jim|last=Steinblatt|work=Playback Magazine|publisher=ASCAP: The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers|date=Summer 2006}}

His first musical composition for a movie trailer was for the film The Full Monty; he worked on this piece with friend Mark Griskey who was a fellow composer at X-Ray Dog. Field explained his thought process on the film trailer: "A trailer, is like a one-minute or whatever, mini movie that's got to have its own feeling and form to it — trailer music is very intense and gets right to the point. It sounds simple, but it's taken me some years to really figure out. I call it 'rock and roll orchestra' because it's got orchestral elements and, sometimes, a choir, but it also has a lot of rock elements like the drive, the drums and the way it just builds and builds."

His musical composition piece "Gothic Power" was used in trailers for The Lord of the Rings film series.{{cite news|url=http://www.trailermusicnews.com/2009/08/interview-chris-field/ |accessdate=July 16, 2013 |title=Interview with Chris Field |work=Trailer Music News |date=August 7, 2009 |first=Gergely |last=Vilaghy |publisher=www.trailermusicnews.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816032509/http://www.trailermusicnews.com/2009/08/interview-chris-field/ |archivedate=August 16, 2012 }} The debut of the first trailer in theaters was quite popular with fans.{{cite news|last=Hamm|first=Jennifer|title='Rings' vs. Rain – Frodo Fans Rally for Movie Trailer|work=Los Angeles Daily News|location=Los Angeles|publisher=MediaNews Group|date=January 13, 2001|page=6|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27RINGS%27+VS.+RAIN+FRODO+FANS+RALLY+FOR+MOVIE+TRAILER.-a083494512|accessdate=June 16, 2013|archive-date=October 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005005459/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27RINGS%27+VS.+RAIN+FRODO+FANS+RALLY+FOR+MOVIE+TRAILER.-a083494512|url-status=dead}} Subsequently, the piece was utilized by Ben Stiller in a fictional movie trailer for a film within a film in Tropic Thunder. He composed a piece called "The Vision" which incorporated string music; it was utilized for the end of the trailer for the 2007 film Atonement. Although uncredited on the film, Field's composition, "The Journey" is the music for the end credits of the 2006 DVD release of the movie The Secret.

Field released his debut album, Sub-Conscious, in 2006.{{AllMusic| class =album| id =mw0000723513| tab =releases| label =Sub-Conscious| accessdate =June 26, 2013}}{{cite book|first=Chris|last=Field|title=Sub-Conscious|date=March 14, 2006|publisher=Tosca Road Inc}} It featured orchestral music from the Northwest Sinfonia. He created the album as a way to branch out from theatrical trailer composition into work as a solo artist. Field utilizes Logic Pro and MIDI for his musical composition; after this process he delivers these files along with an MP3 to the individual in charge of orchestration, who uses Finale software to convert this to musical notation. The album was made available on iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon.com, and for retail sale].

The album received a positive review from Jamie Bonk of ZoneMusicReporter.com, who commented: "As far as debut albums are concerned, composer/producer/multi- instrumentalist Chris Field's Sub-Conscious is an outstanding record: great compositions and arrangements, first-rate performances and most importantly a defined point of view.".{{cite news|first=Jamie|last=Bonk|title=A Conversation With Chris Field|date=July 2006|url=http://www.zonemusicreporter.com/home/interview.asp?intrvw=48&intrvwpstn=4|accessdate=June 14, 2013|work=ZoneMusicReporter.com|publisher=Core Solutions, LLC}}

Sub-Conscious has since become a top seller and editor's pick in two categories on the cdbaby platform, with citations on the site as top seller editor's pick in both the Ambient and Neo-Classical genres at https://store.cdbaby.com/Picks/240 for Ambient and

https://store.cdbaby.com/Picks/586 for Neo-Classical.

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The following is a complete list of music Field has composed.{{cite news|url=http://www.chrisfieldmusic.com/chris-field-film-credits|accessdate=June 14, 2013|year=2013|title=Film Credits|work=Chris Field Music|publisher=www.chrisfieldmusic.com|first=Chris|last=Field|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005011518/http://www.chrisfieldmusic.com/chris-field-film-credits|archivedate=October 5, 2013|df=mdy-all}}

• Atonement (soundtrack)
• Neoclassical (New Age)
• Trailer music
• X-Ray Dog

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• {{cite news|first=Jamie|last=Bonk|title=A Conversation With Chris Field|date=July 2006|url=http://www.zonemusicreporter.com/home/interview.asp?intrvw=48&intrvwpstn=4|accessdate=June 14, 2013|work=ZoneMusicReporter.com|publisher=Core Solutions, LLC; www.zonemusicreporter.com}}
• {{cite news|last=Hamm|first=Jennifer|title='Rings' vs. Rain – Frodo Fans Rally for Movie Trailer|work=Los Angeles Daily News|location=Los Angeles|publisher=MediaNews Group|date=January 13, 2001|page=6|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27RINGS%27+VS.+RAIN+FRODO+FANS+RALLY+FOR+MOVIE+TRAILER.-a083494512|accessdate=June 16, 2013|archive-date=October 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005005459/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27RINGS%27+VS.+RAIN+FRODO+FANS+RALLY+FOR+MOVIE+TRAILER.-a083494512|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite news|url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/2006/summer/radar/chrisfield.html|accessdate=June 14, 2013|title=Picture This – Chris Field|first=Jim|last=Steinblatt|work=Playback Magazine|publisher=ASCAP: The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers|date=Summer 2006}}
• {{cite news|url=http://www.trailermusicnews.com/2009/08/interview-chris-field/ |accessdate=July 17, 2013 |title=Interview with Chris Field |work=Trailer Music News |date=August 7, 2009 |first=Gergely |last=Vilaghy |publisher=www.trailermusicnews.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816032509/http://www.trailermusicnews.com/2009/08/interview-chris-field/ |archivedate=August 16, 2012 }}

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• [http://vimeo.com/feelingarranger Chris Field], videos on Vimeo

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