Soundtrack

Soundcast Stereo episodes are a two channel, 30 minute conversation focused on a single topic from the world of film, television, or video game soundtracks.  Our beta-episode features ERIK WOODS (CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO), who joins Christopher Coleman to talk about the recent news that composer ALAN SILVESTRI will be composing the original scores for, what is anticipated to be, two of the biggest superhero films in history:  THE AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR PART 1 AND PART 2.

AS:...But even the Tesseract, which is kind of the energy underpinning the Marvel world, had its own theme. Which remained for The Avengers. It was established in Captain America. The way the world of scoring works is, they had that theme whether they had me or not. For instance, the Captain America theme. But I think it was because of the working relationship. They very definitely wanted thematic material for The Avengers, as you might imagine. So I think all things considered, it seemed to them to possibly be a good fit...

MP: That's what fascinates me: they've tried to fit all of these people in the same world and seemingly as a way of doing that, avoided developing themes for their heroes in individual movies. Captain America stands in opposition to that plan. I can hum the Cap theme. Not so for the rest of the Avengers. Was that a plan on Marvel's part to be able to bring them together? Was there ever pushback on introducing a theme for Captain America?

AS: Well, we had talked about the whole range. I think, just in theory, everyone agreed early on that the idea of everyone having their clearly definable theme would probably be more distracting than helpful. What we discovered in Captain America is that there is a blessing and a curse to a clearly definable theme. The blessing is, it's clearly definable. The curse is, it's clearly definable! And so, a little of it goes a long, long way.

You can grow tired very quickly of, every time you see someone, hearing, 'Ba ba-ba ba bum!' [Laughs] No. It's like, 'Oh my God I'll kill myself if I hear that again.' So, we kind of went through the experiment on Captain America. And we discovered that a little goes a long way. And you can reference the theme, you can be a little more abstract with it, and still retain a kind of presence with it. For instance, in The Avengers, the Captain America full-on theme really doesn't appear....

Read the full interview: 

http://whtc.com/news/articles/2012/may/11/avengers-composer-alan-silvestri-bringing-heroes-t/

Mondo and Hollywood Records are proud to present Bobby Tahouri's original score to the 2020 game Marvel's Avengers. Marvel's Avengers allows you to take control of earth's mightiest heroes in an all new original playable story. Crafting original music for these iconic characters is no easy task, but Bobby Tahouri (Rise

Erik Woods, Kristen Romanelli and Christopher Coleman tackle six stories from the world of soundtracks including:  John Williams retirement from Star Wars, The music in the Avengers:  Infinity War trailer, Jon Favreau's upcoming Star Wars TV Series and who should score it, His Dark Materials reboot for BBC One, The Ready Player One main theme by Alan Silvestri, and the release of the isolated score from Star Wars:  The Last Jedi.

A great Hollywood blockbuster score doesn't come around too often — after all, no one wants to spend $100 million or more then weave in a risky soundtrack that could derail an audiences reception. Thankfully, Marvel Studios went against the grain and let the legendary Alan Silvestri deliver a rousing, old school score for their 2011 period action adventure flick Captain America: The First Avenger. If there's anyone worth taking a gamble on, it's Silvestri, a two-time Oscar-nominated composer whose works can be heard in such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, The Abyss, The Quick and the Dead, Contact and the Back to the Future trilogy.