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Jessica Curry, composer of the soundtrack for the award-winning indie hit Dear Esther, talks music, the problem with loops and the best accompaniment for milking a hippo. 
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Sep 12, 2012. Legendary composer Philip Glass reflects on his extraordinary artistic legacy at BAM.
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Pre concert talk hosted by Paul Wells with composer Howard Shore and conductor Erik Ochsner at Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Mentions THE HOBBIT and shares what some of his favorite themes from Fellowship of the Ring and what appeal he finds in scoring "darker" stories in film.
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Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Weird name, no? Well get used to it - you'll be hearing it a lot more when it crashes onto our screens later this year. A live action adaptation of Jean 'Moebius' Giraud's famous sci-fi comic book series 'Heavy Metal', Metal Hurlant Chronicles has snared an impressive cast for it's anthology of tales across space and time, including Rutger Hauer, James Masters, Joe Flanigan, and Michael Jai White. Kelly Brook also appears.
Musically Metal Hurlant Chronicles is in capable hands, with the BAFTA-winning Jesper Kyd (famous for his compositions on games such as Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Darksiders 2, and the Hitman series) conjuring up the score. Ahead of MHC's world premier at the San Diego Comic Con next month, DIY talked with Kyd about the challenges of creating the soundtrack for such an ambitious show...
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From his chart-topping tenures in Rabbitt and Yes to his scores for blockbuster films like Remember the Titans and National Treasure, 2012 Henry Mancini Award honoree Trevor Rabin has never been far from the limelight.
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Richard Adler, the composer and lyricist who co-wrote songs for the hit musicals “Damn Yankees” and “The Pajama Game”, as well as the hit songs “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Hernando’s Hideaway”, passed away at his Southhampton, New York home on Thursday. He was 90. In addition to composing and writing lyrics to a number of songs, Adler was also the mastermind behind the John F. Kennedy birthday celebration featuring Marilyn Munroe’s famous birthday number.
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BAFTA and Royal Albert Hall present Conversations with Screen Composers:
In this new series, major composers for film, television and video games join us in the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room. Using clips from their work, they’ll talk to broadcaster and promoter Tommy Pearson about the development of creative ideas in their music for the screen.
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We met with Prometheus’ composer for a chat about the score and he revealed some fascinating insights on being mentored by Hans Zimmer and working with Ridley Scott.
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“As a kid, I always had music going through my head…as long as I can remember, there was always music.” We are proud to present our Visions of Visionaries (VoV) with composer Max Richter, who, together with rAndom International and Wayne McGregor,…...
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Kim Planert, composer of 2012’s TV drama MISSING, provides Tracksounds with an insight into a European composer’s life in Hollywood and the link between the skies and scores.
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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.
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Composer Brian Tyler and director Sylvester Stallone talk about how the musical score for The Expendables was made in this documentary featurette.
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Geoff Zanelli interview: composer talks Disney’s “The Odd Life Of Timothy Green” - Beatweek Magazine
Emmy Award-winning composer, Geoff Zanelli, masterfully created the score for Disney’s upcoming fantasy drama directed by Peter Hedges, “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” starring Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton, out in theaters August 15th. “Because this movie, in the words of Peter, is about what children can teach you if you let them, it would’ve been hard for me to get in touch with the film if I wasn’t a father.” Zanelli further explains how important being a father of a two year-old daughter was to writing a score for a film about parenthood. “It’s like method acting, or method composing,” he adds. “And this is the first thing of mine that my daughter has really responded to.” He explains how fatherhood has changed him, “Had you asked me five years ago if I could’ve written the score for this film, I would’ve said yes without really knowing that I actually couldn’t have. The fact that I’m a father has had a huge impact on the score that I wrote. Fatherhood has made me much more in tune.”
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While our beloved crime dramedy was absent from this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Castle composer Robert Duncan was on hand for a lively discussion with fellow TV music masterminds, including iZLER from ABC's Revenge and Marc Shaiman from NBC's Smash. ...
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The composer will conduct the ASO in a live performance of his original score during a screening of the sci-fi classic, The Matrix.
Since its release in 1999, The Matrix—and nearly everything in it—has become an indelible part of pop culture. This weekend, composer Don Davis will conduct the Atlanta Symphony in a performance of his original score for The Matrix during a screening of the film in Symphony Hall. We caught up with Davis to ask a few questions about the challenge of creating the music for a sci-fi classic.
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Prokofiev's rich legacy -- from film scores to football scoresIrish IndependentIt's been a while since I hove to in Donetsk...
His output was considerable, with seven symphonies, a clutch of concertos, not to mention film scores to his name. And beyond them, Prokofiev reached into the cinema, influencing composers like John Williams. Home Alone, Hook, The Empire Strikes Back are all movies that feature music by Williams bearing the stamp of Ukraine. You could even consider Prokofiev's masterpiece a kind of prototype film score. Peter and the Wolf was conceived as symphonic fairytale, its characters each represented by an instrument, a young person's guide to the orchestra for the stage. It also inspired movie music, notably the 1983 comedy A Christmas Story.
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WhatCulture! recently sat down for an exclusive interview with renowned film composer Robert Folk. Best known for his work on ‘Beastmaster 2’, ‘The Neverending Story 2’, ‘Toy Soldiers’, ‘Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls’ and of course, ‘Police Academy’, the 63-year-old L.A based musician is spritely and charming. Folk, who was born in New York, has an East Coast accent with a soft warm roll in it; something which one comes to associate with the cultured and educated members of American society. Sporting a healthy glow, he sits in an office decorated with posters of the films he has previously scored – a customary sight amongst film professionals.
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Composer Patrick Doyle talks about Scoring Disney PIXAR's Brave and his inspiration for Merida's theme and the film musical message. From Disney and PIXAR co...
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The Audio Director on Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City talks about composing music for video games while answering BAFTA's Big Questions.
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By Paul Kilbey
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved, and I think that they helped shape my musical tastes and aesthetics more than most composers. I recall excitedly pre-ordering Greenwood’s first classical foray, the soundtrack to the film Bodysong, as soon as I found out about it back in 2003. And I was thrilled the following year by the announcement that he had been recruited to the position of Composer in Residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra. This was evidence, to my excitable teenage brain, that pop music was real, that it could achieve things, that my school music teacher was wrong. Pop music mattered. There was a composer in Radiohead.
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This past winter, we were able to attend a scoring session for Oscar-nominated composer John Powell's animated feature film project, Dr. Seuss's The Lorax.
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May 17th is Trent Reznor‘s 46th birthday. For those of you who are unaware of Trent’s work, he was the front man for Nine Inch Nails, which makes his Oscar for Best Soundtrack (The Social Network) even more impressive. If none of that matters to you, he also hates Fred Durst. There, now you should care about him. In celebration of his arrival into this twisted world, here are 46 other fun facts about Trent you might not have known about. (via Silverworld)
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Resistance: Burning Skies is coming on May 29th for the PlayStation Vita, and with the highly anticipated release of Aliens: Colonial Marines later this year, we decided to bring you a special treat: the inside scoop from the composer of both releases, Kevin Riepl.
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ScoreKeeper catches up with composer Danny Elfman, who talks about his super-busy schedule including: DARK SHADOWS and MEN IN BLACK 3
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