Jonah A. Lim, filmmaker and film professor at the Silliman University School of Communication, recently received the “Best Foreign Film” award for his film Kaibigan (that’s Tagalog for My Friend) at the 2005 WYSIWYG Film Festival. He shared the news with my wife and me via a phone call from the Philippines on Christmas Day.

Jonah gave me my introduction into the world of film scoring with two of his earlier works (Social Cancer and Rescue in F Minor). It is great to see him win this award (actually, I saw him with the award – since he sent photos via email). Congratulations to my good friend, Jonah!

Read more about the win and Professor Lim’s industry outlook here.

A few weeks back, I got a call from a delightful young woman named Tiffany who wondered what it is that I do. Now, I suppose, phonetically, ‘wrapmusic’ sounds almost indistinguishably similar to “rap music” - however, “wrapmusic” is music that comes after “wrap” - both in print and in process. And “wrap”, according to the industry and to Merriam Webster Online, is defined as to finish filming or videotaping . Adding music to a film or video project (visual media), is a post-production process.

So, what do I do? I compose music for visual media. Think “Howard Shore”, “John Debney”, or “Thomas Newman”, only with far-less name recognition and a much smaller résumé.