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HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR hears HEDDA, rages with zombies and electrifies the Bride of Frankenstein on a new Film Music Live!
Watch a new Film Music Live videocast as Oscar and Emmy winning composer HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR (Joker, Chernobyl) talks about putting a new spin on her sound with the jazzily sinister approach to Nia Da Costa’s daring update on HEDDA, as well as giving a sneak peak to her approach to the rage zombies of Da…
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ALEX SOMERS takes up co-musical residence with the RENTAL FAMILY
In a world desperate for connection, Japan (a country renowned for its eccentric social practices) just might have the most audacious agencies when it comes to hiring fake relatives, girlfriends, and just plain pretend acquaintances for special or long-term engagements. Such eye-raising monetary social engineering proves the gist for the uncommonly spiritual and poetically low-key…
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BRIAN TYLER is reborn from NOW YOU SEE ME to NUREMBERG on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch an extensive new Film Music Live videocast with BRIAN TYLER as he talks about creating the musical illusions for the hit NOW YOU SEE ME NOW YOU DON’T, digging deep into history to create the powerfully relevant score to NUREMBERG and his own life’s rebirth to add to his concert magnum opus ARE WE…
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Watch Fans of Film Music 16!
I moderated Peter Hackman’s 16th annual Fans of Film Music Event, featuring JAY CHATTAWAY (Invasion USA), DARA TAYLOR (Ironheart), JOHN DU PREZ (UHF), WILLIAM T. STROMBERG (Starship Troopers 2) and W.G. SNUFFY WALDEN (The West Wing)! Watch an enlightening panel of great composers talking about their craft HERE!
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Welcome back to FRIGHT NIGHT, for real!
Brad Fiedel says “Welcome back to FRIGHT NIGHT, for real,” and with new sonic blood that makes the Terminator composer’s classic horror score sing with spine-tingling electric violin like never before! Intrada’s new re-release, produced by Peter Hackman and Edwin Wendler. re-raises my liner notes back from the basement crypt with some new musings by…
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JEREMIAH FRAITES struts out of the composing gate with THE LONG WALK and DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE
No small number of alternative rock artists are making the transition to film scoring. And while some traditionalists might want to stop that march, it’s a do-or-die race that’s brings is a breath of fresh air to composing, especially when it comes to unconventional melody and ways of conveying emotion under stress. They’re two elements…
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MAC QUAYLE becomes a MONSTER on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Watch a new Film Music Live as MAC QUAYLE (American Horror Story, Mr. Robot, Leave the Wold Behind) talks about the method to his madness when it comes to scoring the most notorious O.G. serial killer of them all for Netflix’s axe and skin wearing hit MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY! It’s an illuminating reveal…
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The Bodies reappear for a 40th Anniversary re-issue of John Morris’ CLUE!
I’m glad to see along with Colonel Mustard in the study that my OG liner notes for John Morris’ wonderful score to CLUE haven’t been murdered, and indeed exhumed for this cult classic’s 40th anniversary edition. If you missed guessing the CD whodunnit the first time, here’s your chance for the correct answer with La-La…
