Film composer Chris Hajian has made a living creating dozens of soundtracks for film, documentary and television for 25 years — an industry always beset with brutal competition, which has in recent years been many-times compounded by pressures faced by all media: copyright law that is stacked against artists, and digital technology that renders paying for music all but obsolete. Nielsen reports that on-demand streaming jumped 93 percent in 2015, when Roseanne Cash told PBS she was paid $104 for 600,000 downloads from sites like Pandora and Spotify.

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