SCOREcast Podcast: Recent Episodes
Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston
SCOREcastOnline.com is Internet's leading destination for the professional film music community. The site was founded in 2006 by film composer Deane Ogden, and boasts a powerhouse editorial staff consisting of working film music professionals from all corners of the industry. The SCOREcast Podcast, the official podcast of SCOREcastOnline.com, is hosted by Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston, and reaches tens of thousands of listeners from around the globe, offering an insider's view into the business and art of composing music for film, television, and video games.
Brian's first outing as the show's new host brings noted film director Dax Phelan to the table.
On Deane's final episode as co-host, he and Brian discuss work/life priorities, film industry attitude problems, the Oscars®, and all things cool at this year's NAMM Show.
The boys revisit the long-debated controversy over composers working for free and paying out of their own pockets to score films.
Deane and Brian talk with Elisa C. Rice, scoring director at Hollywood Scoring, about women's inequality and issues of sexual abuse in Hollywood.
SCOREcast's new managing director Meena Shamaly sits down with "Genius" and "The Lego Batman Movie" composer Lorne Balfe.
Brian gets on the line with composer Michael Abels to talk about his blockbuster score to Jordan Peele's runaway-hit thriller "GET OUT".
Deane and Brian chat with Los Angeles composer Adam Gubman about composers potentially being devalued across the industry.
In the first episode of the new year, Deane and Brian hang out with Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation composer Joe Kraemer.
The boys devote their second Sacred Score Postmortem to a real-time rip-roaring ride through Silvestri's breathtaking action/adventure masterpiece BACK TO THE FUTURE.
The boys are back for a rich discussion on working for free, spending from your own pocket on production, and going the extra mile to accommodate collaborators.
Deane chats with the Sonokinetic crew about their brand new cinematic choir sample library, TUTTI VOX.
Deane chats with Neil Goldberg of Heavyocity, makers of the new sample library GRAVITY.
You asked. We answered. As many listener questions as we could get through in 90 minutes.
For the milestone of our 50th show, the boys host the 9th Annual SCOREcast NAMM Dinner in Los Angeles.
Deane talks with Scott Haskin, Anastasia Devana and Dov Waterman about their picks for the best tools, discoveries, tricks, scores, sounds, and business experiences of 2014.
Deane and Brian risk the wrath of the SCOREcast listener base to dissect and discuss James Horner's iconic 1982 score for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
Deane and Brian spend an hour dissecting strategies toward navigating the complex political landscape that is the professional composing career.
Hollywood Studio Symphony greats Amy Tatum, Belinda Broughton, Phil O'Connor and Rick Baptist join the boys for an epic chat on writing and recording for live orchestra.
Deane and Brian chat with acclaimed Hollywood composer and orchestrator Conrad Pope about his life in music, his working relationship with John Williams, and his experience on this summer's monster hit, Godzilla.
Deane and Brian hold court in discussion with guest composers Panos Kolias and Oliver Sadie on achieving balance between composing, raising kids, being with family and having a life of your own.
Days after learning that his "Best Original Song" Oscar nomination was rescinded, 10-time Emmy Award winning composer Bruce Broughton joins Deane and Brian for a discussion of the events.
Deane and Brian sit down with James Sizemore, Howard Shore's right-hand man since 2008, to talk through the evolution of the music for Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug".
Composers Éanán Patterson and Ryan Scully join Deane and Brian to pick through the current market of sample libraries in search of which essential tools every beginning composer should own.
In this special episode of the SCOREcast Podcast Show, Deane Ogden sits down with Rob Van den Berg and Son Thomsen, co-founders of Sonokinetic, for a peek inside their company.
Deane and Brian sit down with Hollywood orchestrator Tim Davies for an in-depth discussion on orchestrating for big-budget studio films and video games.
Deane and Brian take a look at the recent reboot of the Superman franchise, MAN OF STEEL, how Hans Zimmer must have been crazy to take on the challenge of following in John Williams' mighty footsteps... and how he pulled it off in spades. Listener mail, featured composer, film music business news and more... this is The SCOREcast Podcast Show!
Deane and Brian look at the state of the film music industry including recording in Los Angeles, Disney acquisitions, and the differences between composers and "film" composers. Plus, a tribute to the last great American film critic, Roger Ebert.
In our last show of 2012, Deane and Brian visit at length with Charlie Clouser of Nine Inch Nails fame and composer for the "Saw" franchise and the just released "The Collection".
Deane and Brian speak with Michael Barry and Michael Patti, co-founders of Cinesamples, about the recent decision by the American Federation of Musicians union to deny contracts to sample library producers.
Deane and Brian ring in six years on the air with premiere Los Angeles contractor Peter Rotter, whose mile-long resume features the majority of the biggest films of the last decade.
To kick off our 6th year at SCOREcast, the global SCO community put this video together to surprise our leadership team with an important announcement.
Deane Ogden sits down with five of film music's most successful female composers for a discussion on the business. This insightful panel of composers includes Pinar Toprak, Sharon Farber, Marie-Anne Fischer, Tina Guo, and Ceyda Pirali and covers topics ranging from segueing between the concert and film worlds and the changing landscape of gender concerns in the film industry.
Composers Pinar Toprak, Ceyda Pirali, Marie-Anne Fischer, Tina Guo, and Sharon Farber join Deane Ogden on this week's podcast!
Deane Ogden chats with Sonokinetic founder Rob Vandenberg about his newest creation, "Vivace".
Brian Ralston talks LA Scoring Strings creators Andrew Keresztes and Sebastian Katz into spilling the beans over the new LASS Version 2.0.
Veteran video game composer Tom Salta stops by to chat with the boys about the art and business of scoring video games during SCOREcast's 5th Anniversary episode.
In our first Q&A episode, we open up Twitter, Facebook, and a hangout on Google+ to hear what's on your mind about writing, producing, "politiking", and navigating the business.
A discussion with the music editing team behind the biggest movie of all-time, James Cameron's AVATAR.
Fresh off Universal's animated "Hop!", Christopher Lennertz stops by SCOREcast for a lengthy chat on how he juggles features, television, and video games.
Emmy Award-winning composer Richard Bellis hangs out with SCOREcast for an in-depth look at the state of the film music business.
Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston co-host an edition that is so crammed with new goodies you'll forget all about the fact that we've been in hiding for 10 months!
For our first show of 2010, SCOREcast contributing editor Randy Knaub fills in at the co-hosting chair for Lee Sanders. Deane and Randy give their Top Gear picks from their trip to the 2010 Winter NAMM Show and follow up on January's "Getting the Gig" discussions with their own insights.