Exactly how long is 20 sec to wash your hands? The fabulous musicians of the @helixcollective.bsky.social brilliantly answered this question in 2020 with a series of 20-second-long pieces to listen to while following the anti-covid health guidelines. 🧵1/3

Happy #WonderWoman Day! (read more info about the music below👇) On Oct 21, 1941, Diana made her comic debut in All Star Comics no. 8, created by writer William Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peter. The music in this video is my EDM remix of #IsSheWithYou 🧵1/5

Memories of “Return of the Caped Crusaders” (an animated version of the classic ‘66 Batman TV show w/Adam West, Burt Ward & Julie Newmar providing voices!) in 2016. Lolita, Mike & I recorded the Neil Hefti-inspired score at the legendary Capitol Records with a killer band of LA’s finest! 🦇🎺

Michael, Lolita and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with the wonderful Randall Larson, chatting about our careers, life, collaboration, mentoring, and supporting one another throughout the years as we collectively and individually pursue our passions. Link in replies

25 years!!?! Thanks so much James Harvey for sharing the soundtrack release anniversary of my first big solo feature credit in LA. Grateful to Bruce Timm, Paul Dini & all at WBAnimation, Lolita, Mike & Larry for orchestration, all the talented musicians, and Rhino Records for releasing the CD!

This was my first job on BTAS! Shirley asked me to orchestrate the full score from her composer sketches as my audition to later write music for the show. She composed the most perfect demented sitcom theme for Baby-Doll 🤩 & tragic emotional finale. Thanks @worldsfinest.bsky.social for the post 🙏

How does coffee fit into being a film composer? For Coffee Day 2025, I’m sharing the answer with my video for Spitfire Audio’s Composer Day. Cheers! ☕️🤩 #FilmComposer #Composer #Coffee #CoffeeDay

Throwback—Every two years, the FAA requires a review to demonstrate I can fly the plane safely…and return it to the ground in no more than one piece 😂 Happy biennial flight review to my pilot friends also due for their BFR! Photos from Sep 28, 2021

It’s the time of year when a noticeable chill sets in the air, the leaves change colors and the Earth prepares for Winter. I'd like to invite you to listen to "Autumn Ruminations," the first movement of my Four Episodes for Piano and Orchestra based on the Four Seasons. 🧵1/5

I recently shared the premiere anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series, I had forgotten the broadcast premiere of my first solo episode (and first solo credit in LA!) was around this time as well! Sep 13, 1995. Thanks James Harvey for sharing the anniversary 🙏 cc: @worldsfinest.bsky.social

We’re goin’ live! Michael, Lolita and I will be on James Enstall’s GeekToMe Radio show tomorrow (Sun Sep 7) 7pm PT (LA) / 10pm ET (NY) time live on KTRS radio in St Louis & YouTube! Please join us—you can call in with your questions 🎙️📻 youtube.com/GeekToMeRadio

Happy 33rd Anniversary of the premiere of #BatmanTheAnimatedSeries! (Sep 5, 1992) I was still at the University of North Texas and it was essential watching in my dorm… the concept of having a career in Hollywood was a distant “some day/what if.” 🧵1/4

Big thanks to Randall Larson for including my score to #HowlAtTheDead in his most recent #Soundtrax article. It also has a great feature interview with Freddie Wiedmann about his epic #PrimitiveWar score—link below

Thanks for sharing the news, James! 🙏🙏🙏

#NewMusic 🚨 "Batman Beyond vol 3” Soundtrack drops Fri Sep 19, 2025! Featuring 90 never-before-released tracks by Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter from episodes including: 🧵 1/4

This is the 25th anniversary of my 1st solo credit on a studio project—#BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker. I recently sat down with radio host Robert Daniels to go through the soundtrack track-by-track w/details about the music as well as anecdotes about producing the score 🧵1/7

Q&A with yours truly for @dailydead.bsky.social! #HowlAtTheDead #NationalDogDay

“Our pets are trying to warn us” #HowlAtTheDead —a wonderful short film I had the privilege to score; written and directed by my good friend @greggbishop.bsky.social — has now been released into the wild! 🧵1/6 youtu.be/S-6i0pREUKg

“Our Pets Are Trying to Warn Us” in Chilling Teaser Trailer for Gregg Bishop’s HOWL AT THE DEAD, Premiering Online August 26th @greggbishop.bsky.social

Director Gregg Bishop’s award-winning #HowlAtTheDead premieres online Aug 26, 2025! 🐶👻 Grateful for the fabulous musicians of Helix Collective, FAMESProject and LA-based women’s chorus for lending your talents to my score

#FBF Playfest 2013 in Úbeda 🇪🇸w/Michael & Lolita. We shared the program with dear colleagues including the fabulous Akira Yamaoka (“Silent Hill”), who performed the guitar solos on my “Batman Beyond” suite for the concert. Akira and I met again at the BMI Awards this year!

Remembering Pandemic-era stay-at-home live-stream dance parties! Friends tuned in from California, Texas, NY, Toronto, UK, Spain, Poland, Latvia, China, Taiwan & Japan for a truly global hang to dance together during a time we rarely saw anyone in person 💃🕺🪩🌎🌍🌏 #DJ #EDM #HouseMusic #Techno

One of my favorite movies Miyazaki’s #SpiritedAway was released on Jul 20, 2001. While pondering where 24 years have gone by all too quickly, please enjoy Joe Hisaishi‘s beautiful theme “One Summer’s Day" (Complete version on my YouTube: youtu.be/I6j-GbYdljo )

Memory of working at the DreamWorks Animation 20th anniversary concert w/Zimmer, Gregson-Williams, Powell &the HollywoodBowlOrchestra. My computer generated the beats/clicks for the entire show to play along with the film clips. No clicks…the show stops! But no pressure, right??? 😅 Jul 19, 2014

These photos are from a song recording day with the voice cast of WB’s “Wacky Races”. Voice artists are hysterically funny and gathering a group in a room together is hilarity verging on dangerous! 🤣🤣🤣 Jul 16, 2016 cc: @lolitaritmanis.bsky.social

To fans of DC Comics, animation and particularly Batman: The Animated Series (BTAS), we would like to share the news of an extraordinary set of books by W.R. Miller. “Batman: The Animated Interviews” is a massive, multi-volume set—more than 3,600 pages! 🧵1/6

#NewProfilePic #composer #piano #filmcomposer #filmmusic #pianist #steinway

Do the similarities between Track 7 of Superman (2025) & Giacchino’s “Batman” theme mean the Matt Reeves version of the character will appear in the James Gunn DCU? I explore the theory in this video—What do you think? Does the music mean Bat-Pat will join the Gunnverse? #Superman #Batman #FilmScore

Thx Worlds Finest for sharing our Justice League Orig. Soundtrack album launch news! Lolita, Michael & I are thrilled this album is finally available to enjoy. For our American friends,happy Jul4—and to all, enjoy a superheroic weekend! Listen: album.link/JL-OSTvol1 cc: @lolitaritmanis.bsky.social

New Album Alert🚨(and one we’re very excited about!) “Justice League Orig Soundtrack—vol 1” drops next Fri Jul 4, 2025! The album features 99 tracks, incl 3 hrs of never-before-released music from the first season of the epic Warner Bros. animated series 1/3 cc: @lolitaritmanis.bsky.social

May20 is World Fiddle Day.Terra is a homeless girl w/special earth-moving powers who joins the Teen Titans. Terra’s theme incorporates Celtic elements, so I chose fiddle+Irish whistle to accompany this sequence. Terra’s story is tragic, but at least for an evening, everything in the world felt okay.

TeenTitans Sndtrk—vol.4 is out today on all major digital +streaming outlets! 99 tracks: 3hrs &45min (!!!) from season 4 including the epic 3-part The End—confronting relatable problems of what to do when your dad is a super demon intent to destroy the world! Listen here: album.link/TeenTitansOS...

So happy to be able to share this with everyone after so many years waiting… enjoy the listen and thanks so much for your support! 🙏🙏🙏 @aplreach.bsky.social

Thanks James Harvey at World’s Finest Online for the article about our upcoming Teen Titans soundtrack! @worldsfinest.bsky.social Read the article here: dcanimated.com/2025/04/teen... cc: @lolitaritmanis.bsky.social

New Album Alert!🚨 Teen Titans Soundtrack—vol. 4 drops next Fri, 25 Apr ’25. Featuring 99 tracks from fan-favorite Season 4 eps such as Birthmark, The Prophecy, Troq & The End (the massive 3-part epic battle against super demon—and Raven’s father—Trigon) (1/2) 🧵 cc: @lolitaritmanis.bsky.social

Today (April 18) is #SupermanDay —To celebrate, here is #ShirleyWalker ‘s iconic “Superman: The Animated Series” theme. Her three-note motif cleverly calls out “Su-per Man!” Do you know any other TV/Film themes that say the title or the main character’s name? (1/3)🧵

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a concept of what motivates human behavior, proposed by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow Many in LA are simply in survival mode, at level 2 at the most. Check in on your friends+family and make sure they’re ok. It really makes a difference to feel the support🙏

A total #lunareclipse in the US overnight, AKA the “blood moon.” The moon entered the Earth’s shadow to create a total lunar eclipse for the first time since November 2022, according to NASA. The moon turned deep shades of rusty red throughout the more than hourlong totality

#InternationalWomensDay 2025 I celebrate the strong, powerful women artists I’ve been surrounded by my entire career. You all are amazing—I’m grateful to know & support you as you share your gifts with the world! Here’s the theme to “Space: Above & Beyond” by my mentor, the legend Shirley Walker

Please join me in wishing a very happy birthday to Gregg Bishop, a director/writer/editor I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with since 2005. Which is amazing because we’re both still 29, right? Right??? 😂 have a great day, my friend! @greggbishop.bsky.social

Memories: One of the last things we did in public before the lockdowns! Michael & I joined @never5get.bsky.social for #StudioSoundtracks on @dublab.bsky.social radio to talk all things film scoring and share some of our music. Thanks Chandler and WhiteBearPR for having us on! Mar 5, 2020

Dusk in #LosAngeles #CaliforniaDreaming

I am mortified watching the disrespectful way the president & vice president are treating the leader of a sovereign country facing invasion, countless tragic deaths & cities reduced to rubble. You can disagree with policy, but the lack of respect and empathy is appalling.

I stand unequivocally with the people of Ukraine. I posted a piano performance of the Ukrainian National Hymn 3 years ago and on this anniversary my support is as strong as ever. In solidarity #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 (1/2) youtu.be/Vp1GUxktL8M

#HollywoodInBeijing scoring session, co-conducted/produced with Stephen Barton & mixed by Phil McGowan. The musicians played beautifully! For aspiring studio players, work on perfecting your sight reading—recording sessions are done at sight with no prior rehearsal. (1/2)

With Amazon taking full control of the #JamesBond franchise, I’m sure any product placement will be subtle, right???

Scoring session day at #HollywoodInBeijing. The orchestra will be here soon and we’ll be recording the participant’s cues. Grateful to collaborate with my co-mentors Stephen Barton and Phil McGowan at the workshop #filmcomposer #conductor #filmmusic #filmscore #filmscores

Continuing composition while in Beijing for director Manny Duran’s project #TheBadMan. Nearly done! By the way, an iPad connected with lightning cable makes a fantastic portable second monitor 💡 #filmcomposer #filmscore #filmmusic

Birthday Beijing-style! I’m currently in China as a mentor to the Hollywood in Beijing Composer Workshop & I’m grateful to Leo, Sookie, Yefan, co-mentor & all-around amazing human Stephen Barton & the workshop participants for throwing a wonderful celebration with cakes, candles & delicious BBQ.

Grateful for world-class musicians like Ashley Jarmack to bring the little notes on the page to roaring life creating music together for director Manny Duran’s new project #TheBadMan — we couldn’t be more thrilled with the results! (1/2)