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The podcast where composers share thoughts and stories about their original scores. In every episode, a composer tells the creation story of their music used in some of today's top film, television and video game soundtracks.
Scott Bomar is a Memphis based musician, Emmy Award-winning Film/TV composer and producer, songwriter and engineer of multiple Grammy winning and nominated recordings. Projects include the films Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, Mississippi Grind and Soul Men. Bomar produced and engineered Cyndi Lauper’s Grammy nominated album, Memphis Blues, at his Electraphonic Recording Studio and co-wrote the song, “The House Always Wins” on William Bell’s 2016 Grammy winning album, This is Where I Live. His most recent film project is for the Netflix film MY NAME IS DOLEMITE.
Based on the real-life story of Rudy Ray Moore, MY NAME IS DOLEMITE, stars Eddie Murphy and was premiered at the Toronoto Film Festival in September of 2019. The film centers on Filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, starting with the film "Dolemite" in 1975. The film was released on Netflix on October 25, 2019 and has received critical praise for Eddie Murphy's performance, including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor and Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical.
In this episode, Scott Bomar discusses his research into and how he paid homage to the blaxsploitation genre of the 1970s. Bomar details his inspiration from composers such as Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin and the performances of many instrumentalists who played on such famous films such as Shaft, Chuck Turner and Superfly. While revealing some of the musical connection to previous work he did for HUSTLE & FLOW, Scott Bomar shares how an encounter at the recording studio with another huge, musical influence, Isaac Hayes played out.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:21 - Put Your Weight on It
03:58 - I'm Gonna Kill Dolemite
05:51 - Sell It
07:46 - Scene 3
08:42 - Promote It
10:47 - The Phone Call
11:50 - New House Record
13:42 - Arrived
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for My Name is Dolemite was released by Milan Records on October 4, 2019, on digital and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can hear more music by Scott Bomar at his official site:
https://www.electraphonicrecording.com/ or you can follow him on Twitter @electraphonic.
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In our second of two episodes focusing on the music of Borderlands 3, we follow up the last episode (104) with Borderland 3's musical director (and co-composer) for the game's score, Raison Varner.
Finishing Move Inc. is an award winning production duo composing music and sound design for games, television, film and ad campaigns. Principal composers Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White craft emotionally connected sonics for the world’s finest brands and media. They've written music for games such as: Halo Wars 2: Awaking the Nightmare, Fractured Lands, and Crackdown 3, which they talked about in episode 69 of The Annotator. Their sound design work can be found in many popular film and television trailers such as: Terminator: Dark Fate, HBO's Watchmen, Mission: Impossible Fallout, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Mad Max Fury Road. Along with Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann, Finishing Move also worked on the original score for the video game BORDERLANDS 3.
Borderlands 3 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The game was released on September 13, 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh operating systems. It is the sequel to 2012’s Borderlands 2, and the fourth main entry in the Borderlands series.
In this episode FINISHING MOVE, composers Brian Lee White and Brian Trifon share their approach to writing music for a few select environments and boss battles from Borderlands 3. They talk about how employed a cello in a very unconventional way, how they wrote music that would allow it to scale up and change tone easily and the challenge they faced in writing compelling small elements for the game's interactive music system. Finally, they talk about working with and getting direction from music director, Raison Varner.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:47 - Conrad's Hold: Arrival
07:26 - Proving Grounds: Mystery
12:12 - Proving Grounds: Boss Battle
NOTES
Rainson Varner - Borderlands 3 (Ep. 104)
Finishing Move - Crackdown 3 (Ep. 69)
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Borderlands 3 was released by Laced Records on November 11, 2019, on digital and vinyl and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Finishing Move at their official site https://www.finishingmoveinc.com/ or follow them on Twitter: @BrianLeeWhite, @Trifonic, @Fnshing_Move
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RAISON VARNER is a composer, music director and sound designer who has worked on video games such as: PREY, RED FACTION GORILLA, ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES, and BATTLEBORN. He been directing music for the popular video game franchise BORDERLANDS since the very first game which was released back in 2009. He returns to direct and contribute original music for BORDERLANDS 3 this time with co-composers: Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann.
BORDERLANDS 3 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The game was released on September 13, 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh operating systems. It is the sequel to 2012's Borderlands 2, and the fourth main entry in the Borderlands series. At the hard edge of the galaxy lies a group of planets ruthlessly exploited by militarized corporations. Brimming with loot and violence, this is your home—the Borderlands. Now, a crazed cult known as The Children of the Vault has emerged and is spreading like an interstellar plague. Play solo or co-op as one of four unique Vault Hunters, score loads of loot, and save the galaxy from this fanatical threat.
In this episode, RAISON VARNER describes the complexities for writing a score for an RPG-shooter hybrid game and the conceptual approach he ended up taking. He reveals how one of the goals was to write music that created various potentially conflicting atmospheres and emotions for the player such as: awe, humor, and adrenaline-spiking-action. Lastly, he discusses a, one-time, low-priority piece that he wrote for the game, which ended up being one the most sought after tracks by players and fans.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:35 - The Arrival
05:31 - A Forgotten Space
08:55 - Digby Vermouth
13:31 - The Family Wants the Machine
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Borderlands 3 was released by Laced Records on November 11, 2019, on digital and vinyl and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music
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You can hear more music by Raison Varner at his official Soundcloud page or you can follow him on Twitter @raisonvarner.
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JOSEPH TRAPANESE is best known for his sleek score work for blockbuster films like TRON: LEGACY, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, OBLIVION and THE RAID series. As a composer, arranger, and producer for film, television, theater and video game music, he has collaborated with a number of mainstream musical acts such as Daft Punk, M83, Mike Shinoda, and Dr. Dre. His solo work also includes: Stuber, Arctic, Robin Hood, Only the Brave, Earth to Echo and two installments of the Divergent series. Now, a new live-action, "Lady and the Tramp," one of his latest works, was just released on the new streaming service, Disney+.
The 2019 “Lady and the Tramp,” a timeless retelling of the 1955 animated classic of a pampered house dog and a tough but lovable stray, who embark on an unexpected adventure and, despite their differences, grow closer and come to understand the value of home. The film is directed by Charlie Bean and written by Andrew Bujalski and Kari Granlund, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and was released on November 12, 2019.
In this episode, composer Joe Trapanese shares how he embraced the famous "Bella Notte" from the original "Lady and the Tramp" from 1955, while also writing his own original music and themes for this newest version. He reveals how he incorporated the original "Bella Notte," as well as creating his own, new arrangments of the unforgettably, romantic song. Trapanese also details a number of the key, original themes he wrote for the film and names a number of the talented musicians who performed them.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:40 - Main Title (Bella Notte)
04:57 - The Tramp
07:59 - Welcome to the Family
10:53 - Getting on the Boat
12:47 - Bella Notte
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Lady and the Tramp was released by Walt Disney Records on November 12, 2019, and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple
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You can find out more and hear more music by Joseph Trapanese at his official site, https://www.joecomposer.com/ or you can follow him on Twitter @joecomposer.
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Irish composer AMIE DOHERTY’s (Sundance Composer and Time Warner Foundation Composer Fellow) credits span a wide range of genres in both film and television. Some of her recent scores include the short-film "Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock," DreamWorks Animation’s short film Marooned; Emmy-nominated documentary Light In The Water. Amie's recent orchestration and conducting work includes Star Trek: Discovery, Lucy In The Sky, The Umbrella Academy, Fargo and FX's Legion, Starz's Counterpart, and Netflix's Altered Carbon. In June 2018, she had the pleasure to work with rapper 50 cent, conducting an orchestra, choir and band at the world famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City for a performance at the premiere of his hit show Power. The streaming series, UNDONE, is one of Doherty’s most recent scoring projects.
Undone is an American adult animated comedy-drama web television series created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy and starring Rosa Salazar. This half-hour, genre-bending, program explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma, a twenty-eight-year-old living in San Antonio, Texas. After getting into a car accident and nearly dying, Alma finds she has a new relationship to time. She develops this new ability in order to find out the truth about her father’s death. UNDONE premiered on September 13, 2019, on Amazon Prime Video, and is Amazon's first original animated series.
In this episode, Amie Doherty takes us through several key tracks from the original Amazon series. She reveals how she was not only inspired by the visual artistry of the show but how this affected her choices in scoring each episode. At the same time she details some of the themes she wrote and techniques she employed to convey the sci-fi, mystical, and intimate family aspects to the series.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:17 - A Life Without Limitations
03:32 - The Monotony of Life
04:09 - Trick or Treating
05:31 - Caught in a Weird Loop
06:51 - The Life You Were Living
09:56 - Doing the Rounds
11:31 - Quantum Charis
12:48 - Large Ventricles
16:05 - Learning English
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Undone was released by Lakeshore Records on September 13, 2019, and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes, or streaming on Spotify and Apple
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Amie Doherty at her official site, https://www.amiedoherty.com/
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TOM HEDDEN is an experienced composer and music producer. His powerful scores are woven into the fabric of American Culture. They are mainstays in stadiums, TV shows, advertising, websites, video games, Halls of Fame and feature films. You have likely heard his music written for the sports world including: The NFL Pre-Game Anthem, The NFL League Theme "Sprint Right," the main theme for "American Triumvirate for the Golf Channel, and the Reebok Crossfit Anthem. Hedden’s music has garnered the recognition of some of the industry’s most coveted awards, including: 5 Emmy Awards (11 Nominations), a Clio, an ADDY and twice, SESAC’s television composer of the year.
In 1994 the National Football League celebrated its 75th birthday. Narrated by John Mahoney, 75 Seasons tells the story of professional football in America from 1920 to 1994. From the earliest days of the league during the roaring 20s to the more brutal game that it evolved into after WWII to the rise of star players such as Homer Jones, Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown and Joe Namath all the through to the evolution of the game becoming the most popular team sport in the USA at the end of the 20th century.
In this episode, composer Tom Hedden revisits his now-classic music from the NFL Film's documentary, "75 Seasons: The Story of the NFL." Hedden shares how he came onto this project, even being chosen over more prominent Hollywood composers. He reveals how he wrote for descriptions and not to picture ... and how this greatly impacted the final music suite. Hedden also discusses how and why he used the 5/4 rhythm for a particular section, the personal reason why he chose to include the bagpipes and which section of the orchestra had the greatest challenge with the piece.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:25 - Open
05:08 - Finding Daylight
06:34 - Keepers of the Flame
07:57 - Finale
OTHER TRACKS
00:11 - Intro music
01:10 - Arda's Theme
12:41 - Crazy Legs
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for 75 Seasons Suite was released on September 14, 2004, on the Autumn Thunder: 40 Years NFL Films Music Original Soundtrack from Cherry Lane Music and can be purchased at Amazon.com.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Tom Hedden at his official site, http://www.tomhedden.com/.
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DAVID ROBIDOUX is a multiple Emmy Award winning composer for TV, Film and Interactive Media. He has composed more than 100 scores for TV, musically branded the NFL, NASCAR, Boxing and Golf, written over 50 national TV opening themes and over 3000 compositions used throughout TV, film and media. He has won 15 Emmy Awards for Original Music and been nominated for more than 40. His music compositions include the Official Theme of the Super Bowl, EA Madden, MLB Thursday Night Baseball, HBO Hard Knocks, the Official Theme of NASCAR, the Official Theme of the NFL, NBC Turning Point, and Showtime Sports Theme to name a few. One of David Robidoux's most recent and high-profile projects is once again for the National Football League.
To commemorate its centennial season, the National Football League has launched 'NFL100,' a year-long celebration to bring generations of football fans, players, communities, and all 32 clubs together for a unique line-up of programming and activities. The NFL 100th Anniversary Theme was composed by David Robidoux to celebrate the 100th Season of the NFL. The theme is currently being used in programming throughout the NFL Network, ESPN, NBC, CBS, FOX. Robidoux composed a library of over 30 versions of the theme including one specifically to air at the beginning and end of every NFL game broadcast on all of the major networks.
In this extended episode, David Robidoux talks about his history of writing music for NFL Films and the unique challenges that come with writing a commemorative theme, as opposed to writing film scores. He vividly describes his writing process for this theme which eventually became four foundational motifs. Robidoux introduces and lightly explores each of these four main motifs before demonstrating several different arrangements of the four to cover the gamut of emotional and narrative range of the NFL’s centennial campaign.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:41 - NFL 100th Anniversary Suite
12:17 - Celebratory motif
12:48 - Action/ Triumph motif
13:11 - Toughness theme
13:47 - The Struggle theme
14:33 - Celebratory theme with nostalgia
15:18 - 4 motifs with struggle stories
19:09 - Action arrangement
21:21 - Legends and stories utilizing for more motifs
23:34 - Culminations
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for NFL 100th Anniversary Suite was released on September 1, 2019, by NFL films and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by David Robidoux at his official site, www.davidrobidoux.com
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As we’ve reached our 100th episode, I’d like to thank all of the composers who have taken the time to share their stories and detailed insights about their compositions. Their words always shed new light upon their artwork which so often labors so intensely and effectively behind the bright images of the screen. A special thank you to the many PR agents who do so much to help facilitate the participation of many of our composer-guests. And thank you to all of our listeners around the world, who listen each week, share your feedback about the show, and are helping the audience to grow.
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WILBERT ROGET, II is a veteran composer in the video game industry. He joined LucasArts as a staff composer in 2008, where he scored several games in the Star Wars universe, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: First Assault. He later became a freelance writer, scoring Call of Duty: WWII, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and the most recent entry into the Mortal Kombat game universe, MORTAL KOMBAT 11 is among his most recent projects. His scores have earned him several awards and nominations from the Game Audio Network Guild, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (D.I.C.E. Awards), and others.
Mortal Kombat 11 was released in April 2019 from NetherRealm Studios for the Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Windows. In it, the story continues as Raiden’s defeat of the evil Elder God, Shinnok, has drawn the ire of Kronika, the Keeper of Time, and upset her desired balance between good and evil. To restore stability in the realms, Kronika has only one option – rewind time to its beginning and restart history. Through the immersive story mode, players take on the role of various fighters from past and present Mortal Kombat eras, who must join forces to defeat Shao Khan’s Outworld armies and solve the temporal crisis at stake.
In this episode, Wilber Roget opens up his score for Mortal Kombat 11 and shares how he helped to define the protagnist forces versus the antagonist by utilizing acoustic East Asian instrumentation versus electronic performances of Middle Eastern influenced music respectively. He also delves into exactly how he reflected the crucial narrative element of time in his original score. And throughout this episode, Roget spotlights a number of the talented musicians that he helped to bring his score for Mortal Kombat 11 to life.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:31 - A Matter of Time
06:22 - Time Quake
08:21 - Sins of the Father
10:47 - Kitana Kahn
13:03 - Ad Agnorsis
15:26 - Showdown
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Mortal Kombat 11 was released on June 28, 2019, by Water Tower Music and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Wilbert Roget, II at his official site,
http://www.rogetmusic.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @wilbertroget
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Tim Wynn is a California based composer for feature films, television series, documentaries and video games. He studied at the USC School of Music under Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, Buddy Baker and Jerry Goldsmith. Some of his career highlights include feature films: To Save A Life , Starving Games, and Descendant. He’s composed for video games: XCOM 2, Darkness II, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Madden NFL 25, and for TV shows: Mech-X4, Supernatural, and The Deep End.
Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein's FREAKS portrays the story of 7-year-old Chloe, who lives in both fear under her father's (Emile Hirsch) protective and paranoid control, and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat - or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger (Bruce Dern) offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real. The film was released on September 13, 2019.
In this episode, composer Tim Wynn opens up six tracks from his original score. He reveals his musical ideas behind several of the main character themes and even how one theme, originally written for one character was eventually used for another. Tim shares which piece convinced him that a live orchestra was going to be needed for this score and lastly how having two directors on a film can lead to unique musical challenges for the composer.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:13 - Freaks
04:07 - To the Park
05:41 - Time Bubble
07:08 - She Looks Like An Angel
08:16 - Eleanor Reed
10:48 - Hell Fire
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Freaks was released on September 6, 2019, by Moviescore Media and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more and hear more music by Tim Wynn at his official site,
http://timwynn.net/ and you can follow him on Twitter @timwynn_
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GEOFF KNORR is an award-winning composer of music for media and the concert hall. He has worked as a composer, orchestrator, sound designer, and mixing engineer on many video game titles, including Civilization VI, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Civilization V, among others. His recent work on the Civilization series has garnered numerous industry nominations and awards. Notably, the soundtrack for Civilization: Beyond Earth won the 2014 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media award.
Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is the second official expansion pack for the turn-based strategy video game Civilization VI from Firaxis Games, released 2KGames. It was released on February 14, 2019 for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. In Gathering Storm, the world around you is more alive than ever before. In the game, you chart a path to victory for your people by developing new advanced technologies and engineering projects and negotiating with the global community in the World Congress on critical issues. Civilization VI: Gathering Storm introduces eight new civilizations and nine new leaders. Seven new world wonders can be constructed, as well as a variety of new units, districts, buildings, and improvements.
In this episode Geoff Knorr takes us on a deep dive into the development of the thematic music he wrote for two of the eight civilizations introduced into the world of Civilization VI: his music for the Ottoman Empire and his music for the Maori people of New Zealand. But before this, Knorr shares some crucial details about the expansion and some of the overall goals for the music of Gathering Storm, including the epic opening cinematic.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:43 - Main Titles
05:15 - The Ottoman Empire
08:35 - The Maori
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Seis Manos was released on February 14, 2019, by 2K Games and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more and hear more music by Geoff Knorr at his official site,
http://www.geoffknorr.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @geoffknorr
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KEVIN MANTHEI has been working in the film, television and game arena for over 18 years. He has worked as the series composer on over half a dozen animated TV shows and several animated features, and composed over 60 game soundtracks. He studied with composer Jerry Goldsmith and has worked alongside of one-time, fellow students Christophe Beck and Marco Beltrami. He has written original music for BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER and GENERATOR REX. He has also written video game scores such as TRON: EVOLUTION, STAR TREK ONLINE and CHAMPIONS ONLINE. It was his work for video games that helped bring him to the attention of Jhonen Vasquez who hired Manthei to score 26 episodes of cult animated series INVADER ZIM.
INVADER ZIM: ENTER THE FLORPUS is an American, animated, science-fiction, comedy film written by Jhonen Vasquez. It continues the original animated television series, Invader Zim, which originally aired on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons from 2001 to 2002. The new film was released on Netflix on August 16, 2019. In the film, Zim suddenly reappears to begin Phase 2 of his evil alien plan to conquer Earth, while his longtime nemesis Dib sets out to unmask him once and for all.
In this episode, composer Kevin Manthei talks about returning to the Invader Zim franchise after 20 years. He discloses some of the challenges he faced in returning like: being respectful to his original score for the tv series while also adding something new. He reveals just how collaboratively he worked with creator/director Jhonen Vasquez; how Bram Stoker's Dracula influenced a portion of the music and how an early version of a particular piece was compared, by the director, to John Williams' Home Alone.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:34 - Space Looked Back
03:57 - Discovering Dib & Main Titles
07:22 - Floopsy Bloops Smoopsy SRC
08:19 - Epic Montage
12:30 - Peace is Nice
15:16 - Schmorpus Hole
18;22 - Dibs Epic Chase
20:59 - End Credits
SOUNDTRACK
You can listen to the original score for Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus at Kevin Manthei’s Soundcloud page.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can find out more and hear more music by Kevin Manthei at his official site,
https://www.kmmproductions.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @kevinmanthei
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CARL THIEL is an award winning composer and producer who splits time between Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Born into a European family and raised in Mexico City, he was exposed to a rich and wide variety of cultural experiences and musical styles from a very early age. At age 6, he began taking classical piano lessons under the tutelage of Carlos Alcaráz -from the National Conservatory of Music- and within a couple of years, he was already improvising and composing his own music.
Just a few of Carl Thiel's recent projects include: "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series”, “The Teller and the Truth”, Rooster Teeth's sci-fi comedy "Lazer Team 2", and "Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy". He recently completed the score to "Seis Manos", an exciting new Netflix original Animé series, produced by the same team that brought you "Castlevania".
SEIS MANOS is an American adult animated web television series created by Brad Graeber and Álvaro Rodríguez. The story is set in the fictional town of San Simon in 1970 Mexico, where three orphaned martial arts warriors join forces with a DEA agent and Mexican Federale to avenge the death of their beloved mentor. The series debuted on NETFLIX on October 3, 2019.
In this episode, Carl Thiel shares what techniques and instruments he used to musically blend Chinese and Mexican cultures together in his original score. He also dives into several key character themes and action sequences and details a number of the unique instruments he employs to help create, what he calls, a "melting pot" of a score.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:25 - Seis Manos - Main Titles
03:43 - Be a Flower, Be Nothing
05:28 - Brister
06:40 - Serrano's Demise
11:17 - Chi Sau Training
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for Seis Manos was released on October 4, 2019, by Milan Records and can be purchased at Amazon.com, iTunes or streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can find out more and hear more music by Carl Thiel at his official site, https://carlthiel.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @cutmasta
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EMILY RICE is a British born composer for film and TV, who started her musical life as a cellist playing in orchestras and rock bands. Rice has previously served as assistant to several elite film composers including Brian Tyler, James Newton Howard and Laura Karpman, and was a writing assistant to Junkie XL. Her music can be heard in Hollywood blockbusters such as Tomb Raider and Alita: Battle Angel, and she has garnered several orchestration credits including The Mummy, Altered Carbon and Star Trek: Discovery. Rice recently completed scoring her first TV show, for the Netflix series The I-Land, which will be was released September 12, 2019.
The I-Land is an American science fiction thriller web television miniseries created by Anthony Salter. The series stars Kate Bosworth and in the show, ten people wake up on the beach of what appears to be a deserted tropical island. None of them have any memory of who they are or how they got there, and each takes on the name that is printed on their clothes tags. They set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover the world is not as it seems.
In this episode, Emily Rice talks about having her score for The I-Land walk a delicate balance somewhere between music and sound design. She reveals how she crafted her score to touch on the various elements of the series: the humans, the mysterious, and the sci-fi. Rice also reveals how an old song from "Bonnie & Clyde" becomes one of the many heavily processed sources in her original work.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:07 - The Raft
06:09 - The Storm
07:49 - The I-Land Pays You Back
09:12 - The Burial
11:22 - KC's Trauma & Crime
15:45 - Taylor I-Land No Chickens
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for THE I-LAND is not currently available for purchase.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can find out more and hear more music by Emily Rice at her official site, https://emilyricemusic.com and you can follow him on Twitter @emricemusic
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DIDIER LEAN RACHOU is an award winning composer whose feature film credits include POWDER BLUE, HOW TO ROB A BANK, MOVING McALLISTER, and MGM’s HER BEST MOVE. Rachou is also the composer of both the 16-time Emmy winning series DEADLIEST CATCH and GOLD RUSH (Discovery). In May 2017, Didier took home his 13th ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, not only winning a Most Performed Themes and Underscore award for the 5th year in a row, but also winning this year’s prestigious ASCAP Composers’ Choice Television Composer of the Year award.
DEADLIEST CATCH is a documentary television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab, queen crab, opilio crab and bairdi crab fishing seasons. It's the world's deadliest job-where a man could die every week-the most macho of manly occupations: the Alaskan crab fisherman. Deadliest Catch premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005, and the show currently airs worldwide.
In this episode, composer Didier Lean Rachou, after just completing his work on season 15, shares just how musically rewarding his experience on DEADLIEST CATCH has been because of the wide range of musical styles he's been asked to implement since joining the program in 2012. He talks about the ongoing challenge of bringing these intense,life-and-death stories from the Bering Sea to the small screen. Rachou reveals just how working on this reality-tv-program has personally impacted him, as the people at the heart of the show are in very real real danger and don't always return home.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:28 - Intrepid
02:52 - Earl of War
05:49 - Captains
07:35 - Circle Back
09:35 - F/V Destination Open
13:09 - Dutch Harbor Percussion
15:30 - Reflections
17:32 - Good Fishing
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for DEADLIEST CATCH is not currently available for purchase.
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You can find out more and hear more music by Didier Lean Rachou at his official site, http://didierleanrachou.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @didiermusique
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BEN FOSTER is a four-times BAFTA-nominated composer with extensive credits in major productions across a variety of genres. He has composed over 200 episodes of scripted television. Ben worked with David Arnold on Amazon/ BBC One’s hugely acclaimed Good Omens, providing additional music for the series, and arranged the songs of Elton John for Dexter Fletcher’s film Rocketman. As an arranger and conductor he has worked with composers such as John Williams, Jóhann Jóhannson, Will Gregory, Mica Levi and Marc Streitenfeld. He also arranged and conducted the music for 110 episodes of Doctor Who.
NICK FOSTER is a multiple BAFTA-winning composer, arranger and producer of music for television, commercials and film. Working both solo and in collaboration from Air Studios, London, Nick has made his name composing scores for television shows in the UK and US including: Timewasters, Bounty Hunters, the Derren Brown specials (including the recent Netflix specials, Sacrifice and The Push), The A List, Cuckoo, the Emmy-winning Hank Zipzer for the BBC.
Ben and Nick Foster have collaborated on the original music for 78 episodes of the animated series, THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO (ITV) for which they have been nominated for BAFTA, Music and Sound and British Academy Awards.
Thunderbirds Are Go is a British animated science fiction television programme produced by ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures. It is a remake of the Supermarionation series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson that follows the exploits of International Rescue (IR), a life-saving organization equipped with technologically-advanced land, sea, air and space rescue crafts; these are headed by a fleet of five vehicles named the Thunderbirds that are launched from IR's secret island base in the Pacific Ocean. The main characters are the five Tracy brothers, who pilot the Thunderbird machines. Thunderbirds Are Go premiered on 4 April 2015 and is currently in its third series.
In this episode of the Annotator, the brothers Foster open up their original score for series 2 of THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO. They discuss their unique treatment of Barry Gray's original theme as a part of their audition for the project. Not only do they reveal how they incorporated some of Barry Gray's original instrumentation and style but also how and when they departed from it. Lastly, the two share how they specifically chose to utilize a large symphonic orchestra for this score with the idea of exposing young children to such music and hopefully introducing the idea of being involved with music in some way.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
03:22 - TV-21
05:09 - Thunderbirds March
05:54 - Surveyor Located
07:45 - Ray Mechas
09:52 - The Mechanic
11:21 - International Rescue vs The Mechanic
14:30 - The Jeff Tracy Fix
16:37 - I Am The Mechanic
17:51 - Thunderbirds March (Minor Version)
OTHER TRACKS
18:47 - Lovely Day for a Massive Drone Malfunction
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released on August 30, 2019 by Silva Screen Records and can be purchased on Amazon.com , iTunes, and streamed Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can find out more and hear more music by Ben Foster at Cool Music Limited and Nick Foster at his official site https://www.nickfostermusic.com/. You can follow them on Twitter @benfostermusic and @nickfostermusic
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AUSTIN WINTORY has built his career on exploring and curiosity. He began his obsession with composing back when he was ten years old, when he discovered Jerry Goldsmith’s scores to Patton and A Patch of Blue. He has composed music for video games such as the multi-award winning Journey from ThatGameCompany, for Stoic Studio's THE BANNER SAGA, and Squid Studio's ABZU AND Ubisofts ASSASSIN'S CREED: SYNDICATE. Additionally, he has written over 50 original scores for film including his first, the Sundance-Festival-winning CAPTAIN ABU RAED. Outside of games, Austin also maintains a busy concert composing schedule, with regular appearances throughout the world. Austin Wintory's most recent original score is for the interactive murder mystery game, ERICA, developed by Flavourworks and released by Sony Entertainment.
In the game, you become Erica, a brave young lady plagued with nightmares of your father's murder. With the traumatic events that have haunted you as a child dragged back into the light of the present day via grisly new clues, it's up to you to unearth the shocking truth behind this devastating tragedy. Every choice you make influences how the game develops, with multiple endings awaiting you at the finale of the emotional branching narrative.
In this episode, Austin Wintory takes us beneath the murder-mystery of ERICA to reveal some of the intricate details of creating an original score for this extremely interactive game. He shares how key themes are combined and contrasted, throughout the game, based on the players choices and the resulting atmospheric and even narrative effects. Austin Wintory also unveils how he came to utilize Delphic maxims as lyrics within his score.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:49 - Introduction and background
04:44 - Main Theme/ Know Thyself
07:01 - The Aria for Delphi
08:50 - A Lost Home
09:48 - They are Going to Lie to You
13:46 - Another World Beneath
17:21 - Respect the Oracle
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for Erica was released by Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe on August 20, 2019 and is available digitally on Amazon.com and iTunes. You can stream the soundtrack on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Austin Wintory at his official site https://www.austinwintory.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @awintory
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CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ has written music for some of the world’s greatest storytellers. Whether for Seth Rogen as a hot dog saving the world in Sausage Party, the lush orchestral melodies of Steven Spielberg’s Medal of Honor series or futuristic dystopian Americana for J.J. Abrams’ Revolution, this classic eclectic ability has now become his signature. Lennertz has teamed up with legendary artists like Grammy winners Arturo Sandoval and Dave Grusin, The RZA, and Sheila E. as well as members of Pearl Jam, No Doubt, The Beastie Boys, Dave Matthews Band, Jurassic 5, and Jane’s Addiction. Collaborations with directors Tim Story, John Favreau, and Ben Stiller as well as producers Doug Liman, Ed Norton, McG, and Joel Silver, and many others have led to a stream of box office successes.
This is Lennertz's third time on the podcast, having previously shared his musical story behind his work on SMURFS: THE LOST CITY and Netflix's LOST IN SPACE. He returns to The Annotator to open up one of his most recent projects - his original score for the Amazon Prime series: THE BOYS.
THE BOYS is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about “The Seven,” and their formidable Vought backing. All 8 episodes were released on Amazon Prime on July 26, 2019.
In this episode, Christopher Lennertz dissects the many exotic components that he’s combined to create the distinctive sound for THE BOYS including: wratchets, breathing, rubbing hands, indian singing bowls and knitting needles. He details how he developed this gritty, garage-rock feel as well as invoking other musical-styles to convey significant moments in the series and to represent some of the key characters in THEY BOYS.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:33 - Translucent Alive
03:47 - Butcher
06:23 - Starlight
07:36 - Hijacking
09:47 - Translucent Explodes
12:10 - Hughie Trashes Room
13:38 - Homelanders Speech
15:15 - Frenchies First Kill
16:50 - Robin's Memory
18:47 - Homelander and Stillwell
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released on July 26, 2019 by Madison Gate Records and can be purchased digitally on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Christopher Lennertz at his official site http://christopherlennertz.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @clennertz.
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David Stone Hamilton is a classically trained film composer based in Los Angeles, known for his emotionally-charged scores and his unique approach to film music, integrating a wide range of musical styles, from rock to electronic to orchestral, throughout his work. Hamilton's projects include music for Dateline NBC, Ancient Aliens, Last Call with Carson Daly, and films such as 88, and The Jurassic Games. He recently scored the the sci-fi-horror film DARK ENCOUNTER which premiered at FrightFest in August 2019. Another recent project was his original score for the sci-fi, feature film SOLIS from writer/ director Carl Strathie.
SOLIS is the emotional story of human survival, where engineer, Dr. Troy Holloway wakes up to find himself trapped aboard an escape pod which is drifting towards the sun. With an ever depleting supply of oxygen and doomed trajectory towards the Sun, a rescue party sets out to save Holloway before it is too late.
In this episode, composer David Stone Hamilton talks about how he looked to match the classic, analog sci-fi aesthetic of the film through his live orchestral score, how Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams and Don Davis influenced him on the project and how the original sketch he wrote was used on set by the director to assist the actors.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:23 - Main Title
04:21 - Coolant Chamber
07:30 - Death
10:00 - Sketch
11:54 - Best Odds I've Had All Day
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for Solis was released by Moviescore Media on June 14, 2019 and is available digitally on Amazon.com and iTunes. You can purchase the score on compact disc at MoviescoreMedia.com and you can stream the soundtrack on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can find out more and hear more music by David Stone Hamilton at his official site http://davidstonehamilton.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @dstonehamilton
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Ronit Kirchman is a composer, music producer, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. She composes music for film and television, theater and dance, multimedia installations, and the concert stage. Ronit's widely varied film scores include the feature films Zen and the Art of Dying, Finding Neighbors, The Skin I'm In, The Golden Age of Fish, Say You Love Me, and Brooklyn. Ronit is the composer for the riveting Golden Globe-nominated dramatic series The Sinner. In response to its hit ratings and critical acclaim, The Sinner was renewed for a second season.
USA Network’s drama THE SINNER returned for it’s second limited season in Summer 2018. The eight-episode season once again lures Detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) back to his hometown in rural New York to assess an unsettling and heart wrenching crime -- parents murdered by their 11-year-old son, with no apparent motive. As Ambrose realizes there’s nothing ordinary about the boy or where he came from, the investigation pulls him into the hidden darkness of his hometown.
In this episode, Ronit Kirchman returns to the Annotator to share the story behind her original music for season 2 of THE SINNER. She shares about the opportunities and challenges that working on an anthology series provides, while elaborating on the need for new themes and tone that are specific for this season's story. At the same time, she reveals how she finds opportunities for subtle connections to the previous season.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
03:03 - Two Deaths
06:03 - Juvie
07:44 - Sacrificial Calf
10:22 - Hooded Marin
14:01 - The Falls
18:46 - End Credits
Be sure to check out episode 33 of The Annotator where Ronit Kirchman first introduced us to her work for work for the Sinner in season one.
SOUNDTRACK
No information regarding an official release of the original score is currently available.
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Jacob Yoffee is the Resident Composer for the American Studio Orchestra and is scoring Disney’s hit series ‘Andi Mack‘ He has worked on the trailer campaigns for Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald, Ready Player One Star Wars : The Force Awakens,, Star Wars : The Last Jedi & Rogue One : A Star Wars Story. He has scored over 25 feature length films including: Pawn,You Can’t Say No, and A Resurrection.
Roahn Hylton, known as "First Born", is a Hip-Hop, R&B, and Pop music producer from Houston, Texas. Roahn Hylton was a co-producer with Kane Beatz on Nicki Minaj’s "Super Bass". Hylton has also worked with Flo Rida, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, Ludacris, Ariana Grande, The Game, and New Boys.
The Amazon series FREE MEEK marks the fourth musical collaboration between Jacob Yoffee and Roahn Hylton.
FREE MEEK is a 5 part docu-series from Amazon Studios. The series shows Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill’s 2017 arrest for probation violations and the outrage it sparked. In this series, a re-investigation of his original case explores allegations of police corruption as Meek becomes the face of a justice reform movement.
In this episode, Yoffee and Hylton, while detailing Meek Mill's roller-coaster story, reveal their own story of discovery and creation for the series' music. They discuss the tonal range of the score and the things that helped influence that range. They share some of the many challenges they faced on the project including: musically telling Mill's story from multiple perspectives, fusing hip hop with symphonic music and helping to provide musical energy to the series while maintaining the crucial human element of the story.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:37 - Perseverence
05:07 - The Raid
07:06 - News Recap
07:37 - Teeth of the System
1032 - Come Back Stronger
11:47 - 19 Charges
13:48 - Groundswell
SOUNDTRACK
No information regarding an official release of the original score is currently available.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can find out more and hear more music by Jacob Yoffee at his official site http://jacobyoffeemusic.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @yoffeej . You can also follow Roahn Hylton on Twitter @fbthemastermind
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Jim Fowler has written music and created sound for theatre, film, animation and games since 2002. He has orchestrated for the BAFTA award winning score of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and, in 2018, arranged and orchestrated "PlayStation in Concert" for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As staff composer and orchestrator at Sony PlayStation, Fowler worked on projects such as: Wonderbook: Book of Spells (part of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World) & LittleBigPlanet.
Joe Thwaites is currently working at Sony Playstation as a composer and is writing the music for a number of Playstation VR titles. He has contributed to projects such as Killzone: Mercenary, PotterMore, The Book of Spells and Book of Potions from J.K. Rowling.
One of the duos most recent collaborations is for the Playstation VR game, BLOOD & TRUTH.
On May 28, 2019, BLOOD & TRUTH, developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment’s London Studios, was released for PlayStation VR and in the game you become an elite Special Forces soldier, Ryan Marks. Full of epic gun play and explosive set pieces, this exhilarating adventure fires you into a desperate mission to save Marks’ loved ones from a cold-blooded criminal overlord. This is hard-hitting shooter contains all the explosive action and drama of a Hollywood blockbuster and was inspired by PlayStation VR Worlds’ massively popular ‘The London Heist’ experience.
In this episode, composers Jim Fowler and Joe Thwaites detail their experience in writing and adjusting several key themes for the game and how those themes became the starting point for rest of the music created. They discuss how they were looking to capture the "sound of London" and this led them to incorporating GRIME music into the score and working with artists such as Zdot and Kamakaze.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:32 - Ryan's Den / Menu
05:00 - Full Marks
08:11 - Pedal to the Metal
09:15 - Swimming with Marks
12:04 - For Your Eyes, Tony
13:35 - London Streets
16:20 - Blood & Truth
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for Blood & Truth was released on may 28, 2019 by Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. You can purchase both on digital and on vinyl at Amazon.com , iTunes, and stream it on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more and hear more music by Joe Thwaites and Jim Fowler at their official sites: his official site https://www.jimfowlermusic.com/ and http://joesound.co.uk/ or follow them on twitter @jimfowlermusic and @joethwaites.
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Nathan Whitehead's work as a composer, arranger, and producer spans genres from the comedies Keanu and Killing Hasselhoff to the action thrillers The Purge: Election Year and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Recently he completed scoring the Sony PlayStation video game Days Gone.
Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game set in a harsh wilderness two years after a devastating global pandemic. Play as Deacon St. John, a Drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live.
At its core, Days Gone is about survivors and what makes them human: desperation, loss, madness, betrayal, friendship, brotherhood, regret, love – and hope. It’s about how even when confronted with such enormous tragedy they find a reason to live. Hope never dies.
In this episode, composer Nathan Whitehead walks us through five key pieces from his DAYS GONE score. He talks about the challenges he faced in nailing the right "tone" that would accurately represent, not only the complexities of narrative but the complexities of the game's key characters. Nathan Whitehead also reveals how he was chosen to be score the project and which of his previous scores initially caught the ear of the game's creative director, John Garvin.
SPOILER WARNING for the game DAYS GONE.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:01 - Please, Let Us Take Care of You (The Purge: Anarchy)
08:26 - Days Gone
13:22 - The Freakshow
17:11 - We've All Done Things
20:38 - Rest in Peace
24:05 - Never Give Up
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for Days Gone was released on April 19, 2019 by Sony Classical. You can purchase it on Amazon.com , iTunes, and stream it on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more and hear more music by Nathan Whitehead at his official site https://nathanwhitehead.com/ or follow him on twitter @nathanwhitehead.
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With over 60 credits to his name, Adrian’s feature film work includes The Scarehouse, Definition of Fear and Taken Too Far. His television credits include themes for Daily Planet (Discovery), orchestral cues for The CFL and International Hockey (TSN), as well as music for Canada’s long running national morning show, Canada AM (CTV). One of his recent projects is for the feature film LAST CALL, directed by Gavin Michael Booth.
Last Call is a real-time split-screen feature film shot in two, true single takes and premiered at Dances with Films at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, June 18th. The film follows a suicidal alcoholic on the anniversary of his son’s death. When he attempts to call a crisis hotline, a misdial connects him with a single mother working as the night janitor at a local community college. The split screen feature showcases both characters in real-time as they navigate a life-changing conversation.
In this episode, composer Adrian Ellis walks us through the challenges he faced in writing an original score for a single-take-film. Matching the novel approach of the film, Ellis shares how and why he ended up recording the score in a single-take as well and in front of a live audience. He opens up a number of the original themes, discusses his instrumentation, and reveals some of his influences like Arvo Part and Jonny Greenwood. Adrian Ellis shares how the score’s musicians had a more physically demanding performance while also having a unique emotional experience while performing the score.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:10 - The Long Walk Home I - Beth's Theme
05:30 - The Long Walk Home III - Scott's Theme
08:45 - The Long Walk Home II - Main Theme
11:37 - I Know
13:39 - Don't Hang Up
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for Last Call has not been officially released, but you can listen to 11 tracks from the score on Adrian Ellis soundcloud page.
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e.hillman (also known as Eric Hillman) is a composer/producer and songwriter based Wisconsin. Born into a strong classically-trained musical family, Eric began singing and playing piano at the age of 5. He began composing at the age of 12 and by 16 knew that he wanted to score for picture. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music with a degree in Film Scoring, he moved to Chicago, where he, alongside his life-long music partner Brian Holl, laid the ground work for the acclaimed recording project Foreign Fields. E. Hillman returned to his home studio in Nashville to begin work on the score for ASHEN, an open-world action adventure game developed by the New Zealand based studio, A44.
Released in December 2018, ASHEN is a 3rd-person, skill-based, action RPG about guiding your wanderer in search of a place to call home. There is no sun and the natural light that exists comes from eruptions that cover the land in ash. In the game, you fight alongside others, forge friendships and defeat the creatures of shadow determined to cast the world back into darkness. You explore mysterious dungeons, fight epic bosses and explore diverse regions filled with gorgeous vistas and mythical creatures. In this new era of light, you must protect the Ashen and destroy the hungering shadows once and for all.
In this episode e.hillman, shares his first-time-experience in working in the video games industry. He reveals the context and evolution of his music for Ashen and his unique approach in representing the post-apocalyptic-world of the game. Hillman shares why he chose to remove nearly all melody from the score and elaborates on how his instrumentation also reflects the players progress in the game.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:43 - Ashen
07:19 - Vagrant's Rest (A Place to Call Home)
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Sissna, Spinner of Shadows
12:17 - The Whispers
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for Ashen was released on January 18, 2019 by Annapurna Interactive. You can purchase the soundtrack on Amazon.com and on iTunes or stream it on Spotify or Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by E. Hillman at his official site https://edothillman.com/ or follow her on twitter @edothillman
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Royal Television Society nominated Carly Paradis is a film and TV composer, songwriter and pianist, whose credits include the BBC series LINE OF DUTY, Sky Atlantic’s SICK NOTE and PBS Masterpiece/ITV’s PRIME SUSPECT 1973. Her music has also been used in trailers for True Detective, Homeland and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. She tours live with Clint Mansell and she played piano on Mansell’s soundtrack to MOON and recently, she wrote the original score for the Netflix original series THE INNOCENTS which won her a Hollywood Music in Media Award for best song in a TV show or miniseries in November 2018.
THE INNOCENTS tells the story of teenagers Harry and June, who run away from their repressive families to be together and are derailed by an extraordinary discovery - June’s ability to shape-shift. As the star-crossed lovers struggle to control this strange new power, a mysterious professor reveals that June is not alone: there are more shifters out there like her. Created and written by Hania Elkington and Simon Duric, who also executive produce, The Innocents stars Sorcha Groundsell as June, Percelle Ascott as Harry and Guy Pearce as Halvorson.
In this episode, Carly Paradis talks about working with the London Contemporary Orchestra and how her score touches on the series' many themes of: love, family and identity. The London-based composer shares how she drew upon her own experience in Going from child to adult to write music to represent the series' lead character. She also reveals some of the musical details behind some of the most dramatically intense moments of the series and score. Finally, Carly Paradis shares how the deeply personal and powerful song, "The Innocents," sung by the Norwegian artist "EERA." evolved into a last minute powerhouse and came to represent the core essence of the 8 episode season.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:40 - The Last Letter I'll Ever Leave You
05:25 - The Innocents (Opening Theme)
06:33 - Check Upstairs
07:27 - June, It's Time to Get Up
07:55 - First Shift
08:14 - Turquoise Nails
09:25 - The Innocents (feat. EERA and the London Contemporary Orchestra)
OTHER TRACKS
01:37 - Love is Your Trigger
NOTES
Carly Paradis will be performing a suite of The Innocents music at the BBC Proms sci-fi concert at Royal Albert Hall with London Contemporary Orchestra and EERA (August 7th 2019).
SOUNDTRACK
The Innocents score is not available commercially, but 'The Innocents' (Feat. EERA and London Contemporary Orchestra) will be released on Carly's upcoming 3rd solo album 'Nothing is Something' late summer/early fall 2019.
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Chad Hobson's diverse talents as a composer and performer have prompted collaborations with many prestigious figures in the film industry. He arranged and played Asian ethnic instruments, supported by a full orchestra, for James McTeigue and the Wachowskis' Ninja Assassin. He also provided vocals and choral arrangements for the classically scored The Young Victoria, produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Emily Blunt. Some of his recent projects include two-time BAFTA and Grierson award-winning The Paedophille Hunter directed by Dan Reed, the BBC's BAFTA award-winning series Our War, and the powerful drama A Song For Jenny, directed by Brian Percival and starring Emily Watson. He also wrote the original score for the controversial HBO documentary, LEAVING NEVERLAND.
Leaving Neverland is a two-part documentary exploring the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James Safechuck, at age 10, and Wade Robson, at age 7, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 40, and Robson, now 36, as well as members of their family, the film crafts a portrait of sustained abuse, exploring the complicated feelings that led both men to confront their experiences after both had children of their own. Produced and directed by Dan Reed, the documentary recently had its world premiere in the Special Events section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
In this episode, Chad Hobson reveals how he looked to show a "magical quality" of the two victims and their fateful meeting of Michael Jackson and the over-arching metaphor he used to service as a guide for the tone of his score. Hobson discusses the challenge, choices and goals of writing an actual theme to represent the "abuse," but, at last, why he didn't write a theme for Michael Jackson.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:36 - Meeting Michael
04:37 - Room at the Hilton
07:12 - Magical Moment
08:46 - The Invitation
11:17 - Magical Valley
OTHER TRACKS
00:11 - Trip to Hawaii
SOUNDTRACK
The official soundtrack was released digitally on April 1, 2019 by Redrocca Records. It can be purchased on Amazon.com or on iTunes and can be streamed on Spotify or Apple Music.
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Matt Morton is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer/producer from Columbus, Ohio. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, and vocalist for The Shantee (rock band), and has recorded several albums and opened for bands including George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, Blues Traveler, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, the Neville Brothers, Widespread Panic, and The National. His feature-length scores include 'Scaring the Fish', John Urbano's Panama documentary 'Beauty of the Fight', the Emmy-winning Sundance documentary 'Dinosaur 13', and his latest documentary score is for 'Apollo 11'.
APOLLO 11 is director/producer Todd Douglas Miller’s epic feature documentary capturing the tense, exhilarating days and hours of humanity’s first landing on the moon debuted in IMAX theaters on March 1, 2019 and for television on Sunday, June 23 on CNN. Primarily comprised from newly-discovered 70mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of audio recordings, Miller and his team worked closely with the National Archives and NASA to locate, digitize, and restore all sources of material related to the Apollo 11 mission. The result, ‘APOLLO 11,’ offers viewers a singular, immersive experience of the original Apollo 11 mission, with unmatched image clarity and pristine sound.
In this episode, we recognize the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission as Matt Morton reveals both inspirations and challenges of scoring the epic documentary. He talks about his desire to use and feature sounds, instruments and effects only available at the time of the Apollo 11 launch in 1969. Morton reveals some of the challenges he faced upon making this decision on how to reach his goal of authenticity. He also dives into some of his escapades in adding echo and a unique rhythm he developed for a climactic track "We Must Be Bold."
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:35 - The Burdens and the Hopes
13:58 - Transearth Injection
16:19 - We Must be Bold
NOTES
CNN will have encore showings of APOLLO 11 on Saturday, June 29 and Saturday, July 20, at 9:00 PM ET.
SOUNDTRACK
The official soundtrack was released digitally on March 8, 2019 by Milan Records and will see a physical CD release on June 28, 2019. It can be purchased on Amazon.com or on iTunes and can be streamed on Spotify or Apple Music. The soundtrack will be released on vinyl LP on July 19th, the day before the 50th anniversary of the first moon-landing.
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Henri-Pierre Pellegrin, aka H-Pi, is a french composer/producer and sound designer. From 2005 to 2009, He was an in-house Composer/Sound Designer at Gameloft. He then he joined Game Audio Factory team in 2010, and eventually became a freelancer in 2015. He is best known for his work in Video Games and television including: video games Trackmania and Brave Frontier: The Last Summoner for which he made his first appearance on The Annotator in ep. 52. H-Pi has written two original scores for the Styx franchise: STYX: MASTER OF SHADOWS in 2015 and Styx: Shards of Darkness in 2017.
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements developed by Cyanide Studio for PC and was released on October 7, 2014. Styx is a Goblin two centuries old... the very first of all the Goblins, he's a master in the arts of stealth, theft, and murder. In the depths of the Tower of Akenash, where Humans and Elves hide and protect the sacred Tree, which is the source of a very precious Amber, is the best chance Styx has of quickly amassing a small fortune and, perhaps, discover more about his true origins along the way.
In this episode, H-Pi reveals details from his original score for the STYX: MASTERS OF SHADOWS including some of his diverse inspirations such as: fellow French video game composer, Olivier Deriviere, the Finnish symphonic metal band, Apocalyptica, Shostakovich and singer/song-writer Amy Winehouse. He also reveals how he came to work with Sinfonia of Pop Orchestra on this project and how playing his main theme for STYX on his in-laws grand piano ended up inspiring a bonus track for the game.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:19 - Prelude
03:10 - Styx Master of Shadows (Title Theme)
05:28 - Hideout
06:41 - The Atrium - Part I
1)34 - Heights of Akenash - Part II
13:17 - Exit Music
SOUNDTRACK
The official soundtrack was released on March 23, 2015 by the Game Audio Factory. It can be purchased on Bandcamp, Amazon.com or on iTunes and can be streamed on Spotify or Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by H-Pi at his official site http://hpisound.com or follow him on twitter @hpisound
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Justin Melland is Los Angeles based award winning film composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has written original scores for THE KILL TEAM, Showtime's DARK NET; and the Emmy award winning film IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST. He has also scored documentaries such as the HBO documentary THE DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER, Netflix's EXTREMIS. Most recently he scored the Starz original series WRONG MAN and Netflix's Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes with two time Emmy Award winning director Joe Berlinger.
The four-part series, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES brings the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the light for the very first time and invades our psyche in a fresh yet terrifying way through exclusive, never-before-heard interviews from the “Jack the Ripper of the United States,” himself. This unique and gripping docuseries focuses on the man whose personality, good looks and social graces defied the serial-killer stereotype, allowing him to hide in plain sight as he committed the brutal sex-crime slayings of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978. While on trial, Bundy received extraordinary adoration from American women, which made his gruesome crimes doubly haunting, even in an era of anything-goes mayhem. More than 100 hours of interviews were used to create this four-part series and the first episode aired on January 24, 2019. The series has has seen a massive audience in its first 35 days, vaulting into the #2 position of all Netflix original series releases since Nielsen measurement began (trailing only season 2 of “Stranger Things.”)
In this episode, Justin Melland opens upon about his own personal, childhood fears of Ted Bundy and he reveals how tapping into those fears and helped him compose the music for the series and even take musical risks he might not have otherwise. Melland shares his "favorite sound in the world" and how he was able to work this sound into his score. Lastly, the composer details how, fueled by 80s-nostalgia, he wrote a love-song for a killer.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:50 - I Didn't Know What the Hell I was Doing
05:17 - Fulfilled
07:45 - Ted
10:51 - Is it Love?
SOUNDTRACK
No soundtrack release information is currently available.
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Rozen (aka Daniel Jimenez) is a Los Angeles based composer/arranger. His recent work includes an extensive repertoire of video game arrangements from franchises such as, Hearthstone, Metroid, Kingdom Hearts, and The Legend of Zelda. Rozen was nominated for his first G.A.N.G. award for Best Game Music Cover/Remix in 2016, for his cover single of “Vault 111” from Fallout 4, and his track “Liberi Fatali: Fated Children” won a G.A.N.G. award for Best Game Music Cover/Remix in 2017. His most recent album release “CHILDREN OF TERMINA has been awarded for Best Album – Fan Arranged” in VGMO’s Annual Game Music Awards 2018.
CHILDREN OF TERMINA is an in-depth musical exploration of the lore behind the action-adventure game release in 2000 by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The release of Children of Termina follows the hugely-successful Sins of Hyrule and Ballads of Hyrule with powerful orchestral arrangements that revisit key moments and mysteries of Termina.
In this episode, Rozen dramatically describes his all-new arrangements of music from Majora’s Mask and how he created the ominous, yet beautiful blend of symphonic, synth, and sound design for Children of Termina. He also describes some of the original music he composed for the release, his inspirations for it, and how, through this release, he sought to bring gamers back to their memories of playing the original video game.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:40 - The World that Ends in 3 Days
04:55 - Stone Tower Temple
09:49 - Clock Town
13:32 - I Shall Consume Everything
OTHER TRACKS
00:04 - Termina Field
16:10 - Termina Field
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released by the Materia Collective on November 30, 2018 and is available on CD, vinyl and digitally on Bandcamp. You can also find it on Amazon.com, itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Rozen at his official site https://rozen.audio/ or follow him on Twitter @rozendj
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Nainita Desai is a British composer and sound designer who has scored countless bespoke scores for film and TV including: BBC, HBO, ITV and C4. She has studied the sitar, piano, guitar, tabla and violin. She has worked with artists such as Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor. Some of her recent scoring projects include the WWII thriller, ENEMY WITHIN, the psychological horror film DARKNESS VISIBLE and THE LIFE AFTER. Another recent project is for the 2018 film UNTAMED ROMANIA, the most successful non-fiction film in Romania. It premiered at the Transylvania Film Festival 2018.
UNTAMED ROMANIA is a film that reveals the beauty of the European country as it is, raw, magical but fragile at the same time. The film focuses on the beautiful unspoiled lands tucked within the country but moreover on the numerous forms of wildlife that live there and how their lives are dictated by the seasons. It is a never ending battle for survival and Untamed Romania tells their stories. The film will made its international debut on 18th of March in Washington, at an ecological film festival and on 12th of April in London, at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) gala.
In this episode, Nainita Desai talks about the unique challenges and opportunities afforded to her through UNTAMED ROMANIA - writing her first score for a large scale orchestra. Desai discusses in detail how she reveals the characters of the animals through her musical themes and, in contrast, how the music she wrote for the various landscapes depicted was directly influenced by those landscapes themselves. Finally, she reveals which piece was the most difficult and how Untamed Romania was different from all of the other documentary scores she has written before.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:59 - Main Theme
06:00 - Fire Salamander
08:21 - Bear Mischief
09:20 - Catch the Mayfly
10:36 - Wild Boar and Wolves
13:43 - A Chrysalis Awakens
15:47 - Golden Eagle
18:06 - Autumn Approaches
SOUNDTRACK
A soundtrack release is imminent, but an official release date has yet to be announced.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Nainita Desai at their official site http://nainitadesai.com/ or follow her on Twitter @nainitadesai
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In 2010, John Murphy, composer of memorable film scores such as 28 Days Later, Kick-Ass, and Sunshine, stepped away from the film music world for an 8-year hiatus. The British film composer is a self-taught multi-instrumental musician who began in the 1980s, working notably with The Lotus Eaters, Thomas Lang, and Claudia Brücken. He then went on to collaborate numerous times with directors such as: Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, Michael Mann, Matthew Vaughn, and Stephen Frears. John Murphy returned to the world of scoring to picture with Andrew Davies' non-musical adaptation of LES MISERABLES.
Screenwriter, Andrew Davies, would bring the Victor Hugo masterpiece to television in a six-part adaptation, premiering on BBC in 2018 and then on PBS in the USA on April 18, 2019.
Dominic West stars as fugitive Jean Valjean, with David Oyelowo as his pursuer Inspector Javert and Lily Collins as the luckless single mother Fantine. Love, death, and the struggle for social justice in early 19th-century France feature in this beautifully faithful retelling of one of the world’s most beloved stories.
In this episode of the Annotator, John Murphy shares how this adaptation of the book, not being a musical immediately affected the tone of his score. He vividly describes how he chose to approach several key themes and character moments from the series, how he he played cello for the very first time on this score, and how his composing process for this project made him feel like organizer and minimalist extraordinaire Marie Kondo.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:34- Tension
05:11 - Les Miserables
06:26 - Fantine's Descent
08:06 - Relentless
09:48 - The Morning After
11:34 - Javert on the Bridge
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released digitally May 3, 2019 by Lakeshare Records and can be purchased from Amazon.com and iTunes and streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Cody Matthew Johnson is a multi-media composer, music producer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist. While obtaining his Bachelor of Music in Composition Scoring for Visual Media, he began to work alongside critically acclaimed composer Jeff Rona (“Far Cry 4”, “God of War III”) composing additional music, producing, and mixing a variety of TV, film and game projects. He is credited on scores for TNT’s “Claws”, Sony’s PSN debut series “Powers”, and a variety of feature films and documentaries.
Johnson first caught Capcom’s attention with his remixes of classic Capcom and Marvel character theme songs for “Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite”, including “Devil May Cry 3”, “Spider-Man”, “Captain America”, “Mega Man”, and “Ghosts n’ Goblins.”
In this episode, we continue our exploration some of the music from Devil May Cry 5 - the latest in the Devil May Cry video game franchise directed by Hideaki Itsuno. In episode 73, we heard from composer Jeff Rona and his work on the piece, "Crimson Tide" representing one of game's demon hunters, "V," and now we hear from Cody Matthew Johnson who shares his story about the new theme for another of the game's demon hunters "Dante."
Cody Matthew Johnson talks about how he came onto the project and what it was like to write music for a character that he had previously remixed. He describes how he approached writing his piece for a series which had already established a strong musical history. Like Rona, he talks about the difference in how the music is used in the game itself as opposed to the piece on the soundtrack.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:14- Subhuman
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was release on March 20, 2019 by Capcom and can be purchased from Amazon.com and iTunes and streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
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JEFF RONA is an accomplished and award-winning contemporary composer for film, TV, and video games, as well as a recording artist and producer. He has collaborated with Philip Glass, Mark Isham, Lisa Gerrard, Basil Poledouris, Hans Zimmer and Cliff Martinez. Among his numerous credits as composer is the groundbreaking television series “Homicide: Life On The Street” as well as multiple AAA video games such as: “God of War 3”, “Far Cry 4”, “Marvel vs Capcom Infinite”, “Transformers”, “Resident Evil 2”, One of his most recent video game projects has been for “Devil May Cry 5,” which released in March 2019.
Devil May Cry 5 is a brand new entry in the legendary over-the-top action series. In the game, years have passed since the legions of hell have set foot in this world, but now a new demonic invasion has begun, and humanity’s last hope will rest in the hands of three lone demon hunters, each offering a radically different play style. United by fate and a thirst for vengeance, these demon hunters will have to face their demons if they hope to survive.
In this episode, Jeff Rona talks about the challenge he faced in writing a distinct theme for one of the main characters of DEVIL MAY CRY 5, called "V," and how that theme is presented and used very differently in the game versus in the soundtrack release. He also shares how one of the biggest challenges for the piece was not only writing the lyrics but finding the right style and vocalist to perform it.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
01:45 - Crimson Cloud
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was release on March 20, 2019 by Capcom and can be purchased from Amazon.com and iTunes and streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Emmy Award-winning composers Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter, collectively known as Dynamic Music Partners, have created hundreds of hours of music for a numerous TV series, independent films, video games and live performance events. Together, they have collectively earned twenty-eight Emmy Award nominations and six Annie Award nominations as composers for Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, Batman: The Brave And The Bold, Justice League, Teen Titans, Batman Beyond, The Zeta Project and The New Batman Superman Adventures. One of their most recent projects has been writing original music for the Marvel animated special: MARVEL RISING: CHASING GHOSTS.
Premiering on January 16, 2019 on the Marvel HQ Youtube channel, MARVEL RISING: CHASING GHOSTS is a 22-minute, animated special. Marvel Rising series is a mini-series franchise, which debuted in 2018 and is produced by Marvel Animation based on characters from Marvel Comics. The series focuses on a diverse team of teenage superheroes, known as the Secret Warriors, who band together to defend the world against various threats. CHASING GHOSTS follows Ghost-Spider who teams up with the Secret Warriors to bring down the villains Sheath and Exile once and for all.
In this episode, the Dynamic Music Partners walk us through their scoring process for Chasing Ghosts. They discuss how being involved in the ground-breaking project ended up influencing the sound of their score. Finally, Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter reveal how they approached writing music for the characters and environments and how they are very intentional in their "musical manipulation" throughout.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:08 - Main Titles
02:55 - Selection 2
05:19 - Selection 3
05:52 - Selection 4
06:57 - Selection 5
07:34 - Selection 6
07:51 - Selection 7
11:13 - Selection 8
13:25 - Selection 9
SOUNDTRACK
No information regarding an official soundtrack release is currently available.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by the Dynamic Music Partners at their official site http://www.dynamicmusicpartners.com/ You can follow each of them on twitter @MMMccuistion , @LRitmanis, @utadeer.
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Canadian composer, Andrew Lockington, has composed original scores for feature films such as Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Journey to the Mysterious Island. Additionally, he has scored “City of Ember,” “The Space Between Us” and “Rampage” which he discussed on The Annotator episode 34. One of his most recent projects has been scoring the original television series FRONTIER.
FRONTIER is a Canadian historical period drama television series co-created by Brad Peyton, Rob Blackie, and Peter Blackie. The series chronicles the North American fur trade in late 1700s Canada, and follows Declan Harp (Jason Momoa), a part-Irish, part-Cree outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada, which has become corrupt and engages in illegal activities to enrich itself.
In this episode, Andrew Lockington breaks down his main title, several key musical pieces from the series and the thematic development over the course of Frontier. He reveals how he chose to specifically and delicately handle the numerous cultural and historical elements of the score; employing them to produce a more modern-contemporary score than one might have anticipated. In contrast, Lockington also talks about how he found spots in the series for larger, orchestral moments.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:18 - Main Titles
03:19 - Selection 2
04:35 - Selection 3
08:15 - Selection 4
12:25 - Selection 5
14:15 - Selection 6
16:27 - Selection 7
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for FRONTIER was released by Lakeshore Records on January 25, 2019 and is available from Amazon.com and itunes. You can also stream the score on Spotify and Apple Music.
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The Blasting Company is a band of multi-instrumentalists known for their specialty in a multitude of musical genres, past and present. Founded as a street band in Nashville by brothers Joshua Kaufman and Justin Rubenstein, the band eventually landed in Los Angeles where they were quickly introduced to the world film and television. Early ventures into film scores include songs written for Burlesque and Five-Year Engagement, but they are probably best known for their score on the Emmy-winning animated series, Over the Garden Wall. The score garnered millions of views by fans on YouTube, prompting Mondo Records to release the first ever vinyl soundtrack of a Cartoon Network show.
Their latest series is Costume Quest, released by Amazon on March 8th of 2019. Costume Quest is based on the popular video game series by Double Fine Productions and the world originally created by Tasha Sounart. The show features four kids facing off against the dark forces lurking in the shadows of their sleepy town of Auburn Pines. To overcome obstacles and achieve their goals, they must learn to unlock and master the magical powers of super-normal costumes-with each costume comes a new set of transformations and powers.
In this episode, Joshua Kaufman and Justin Rubenstein take us through the development of their catchy main theme for COSTUME QUEST. They share eight versions of their theme, from their original sketches through to the final iteration and in between they vividly describe the process of writing, receiving feedback from the show runners, and finally implementing that feedback.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
03:02 - Piano sketch
04:20 - Version 1
05:18 - Version 2
06:51 - Version 3
08:50 - Version 4
10:24 - Version 5
11:54 - Version 6
12:50 - Final Version
OTHER TRACKS
00:54 - "Team Elephant"
01:49 - "Let's Catch Up"
14:07 - "End Credits"
14:31 - "Team Elephant"
SOUNDTRACK
No information about an official release of the soundtrack is currently available.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by The Blasting Company at their official site https://www.blastingcompany.com/ or follow them on Twitter: @blastingcompany
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Finishing Move is an award winning production company composing music and sound design for games, television, film and ad campaigns. Principal composers Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White craft emotionally connected sonics for the world’s finest brands and media.
Finishing Move have written music from video games such as: Halo Wars 2 franchise, the Anki Overdrive game series, Massive Chalice and Dropchord. They have also contributed to films such as Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Catch and Release, and Stealth.
Crackdown 3 from Xbox Game Studios is a 2019 video game developed by Sumo Digital, Cloudgine, Reagent Games, Certain Affinity, Ruffian Games. In the game you play a super-powered Agent in the a sandbox of mayhem and destruction.
You can explore the heights of a futuristic city, race through the streets in a transforming vehicle, and use your powerful abilities to stop a ruthless criminal empire. Crackdown 3 delivers cooperative mayhem and an all-new multiplayer mode where destruction is your ultimate weapon powered by Microsoft Cloud.
In this episode, Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White reveal the origin story behind their production team, Finishing Move. They talk about how and why, for Crackdown 3, they wrote full tracks first and extracted the needed musical stingers to be used throughout the game from those full pieces. Finishing Move take us deep into four tracks from Crackdown 3 including the headline track "Jaxon's Jam" and reveal where you can find a special version of the track within the game.
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:49 - "Chimera Dawn" / Starting Finishing Move /
04:13 - "Nimbus"
07:51 - "Djimon Keita"
10:43 - "Skills for Kills"
14:45 - "Jaxon's Jam"
OTHER TRACKS
16:29 - "Rexa Kahn"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on February 15, 2019 by Microsoft Studios Music. You can purchase them at Amazon.com, iTunes and stream them on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Finishing Move at their official site https://www.finishingmoveinc.com/ or follow them on Twitter: @BrianLeeWhite, @Trifonic, @Fnshing_Move
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Composer Frederik Wiedmann, who has composed original scores for over 40 projects, including animated films and TV shows such as: SON OF BATMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE: FLASHPOINT and the GREEN LANTERN animated series, returns to continue his musical story behind The Dragon Prince.
In our last episode, Wiedmann shared about how he originally came onto the Netflix project, his unique musical approach, making eclectic instrument choices from around the world, and the fan reaction to his season 1 score.
In this episode, Frederik Wiedmann shares how decided to build on the musical foundation that was laid for season one. He reveals how he employs and develops two important, character, thematic elements from season 1 and lastly, his lofty musical goals for the climactic piece in the season 2 finale of The Dragon Prince.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
04:35 - "Encounter at the Breach"
07:16 - "The Letter"
09:14 - "How May I Serve You?"
11:09 - "Into Your Heart and Mind"
12:56 - "Wings"
OTHER TRACKS
00:05 - "In the Moon Temple"
01:35 - "Only Human"
15:35 - "Lady Justice: The Queens of Dure"
17:29 - "I Can't Let You Go"
If you haven’t already, please listen to our previous episode (67), where Frederik Wiedmann talks about his work on season one of THE DRAGON PRINCE.
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on February 22, 2019 by Lakeshore Records. You can purchase it at Amazon.com, iTunes and stream it on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Frederik Wiedmann at his official site http://www.frederikwiedmann.com/ or follow him on Twitter @freddiewiedmann
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Frederik Wiedmann has composed for over 40 projects spanning multiple genres. He has written music for films such as HANGMAN (starring Al Pacino), Stoic (with Antonio Banderas) and the civil war epic FIELD OF LOST SHOES. He has also written original scores for countless DC animated shows and features such as: GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX, SON OF BATMAN and many others. One of his latest musical projects is for Netflix’s popular original animated series, THE DRAGON PRINCE.
Netflix debuted its exclusive series in late 2018. The story is set in the magical land of Xadia, where magic comes from six primal sources: the sun, moon, stars, sky, earth and ocean. When humans create a seventh -- dark magic -- war is sparked between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms. Three children from opposite sides of the conflict discover a secret that could change everything and decide to join forces and go on an epic journey. That trek could be their only hope of ending the war and restoring peace to both worlds.
In this episode, Frederik Wiedmann talks about what project opened the door for him into the world of animation and eventually to THE DRAGON PRINCE. He also reveals the importance of the series’ main theme and the palette of instruments he would use to convey this fantastic world. Lastly, he walks us through one of his original demo-pieces and the climactic piece for season one.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
04:19 - "Long Ago, In Xadia"
07:45 - "Not That Simple"
09:47 - "Fading Quickly"
OTHER TRACKS
00:13 - "The Dragon Prince (Main Theme)"
00:42 - "Mercy"
01:55 - "My Heart for Xadia"
02:17 - "Azymondias"
13:58 - "Brothers"
14:53 - "Azymondias"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on February 22, 2019 by Lakeshore Records. You can purchase it at Amazon.com, iTunes and stream it on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Yves Gourmeur started playing piano at age 6 and the trumpet at 8. At 17 he began playing as a bar pianist. He abandoned the idea of becoming a a solo pianist while he as a lecturer at the Royal Conservatory of Mons in Belgium and began to perform classical, Cuban, instrumental theater and jazz.
Among his compositions for media, he has written the original scores for the films: "Meprises" Misconceptions, "Lombre de lui-meme" The Shadow of Himself and for TV "Geronimo Stilton" season 3. One of his most recent film scores is for the 2018 film, THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT.
The Hummingbird Project is a 2018 Canadian-Belgium drama thriller film, written and directed by Kim Nguyen produced by Pierre Even at Item 7. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, and Salma Hayek. In the film, a pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal. The Hummingbird Project had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 15, 2019, by The Orchard and March 22, 2019 in Canada by Elevation Pictures.
In this episode, YVES GOURMEUR shares how he approached scoring this film before having seen a single frame of film and the results after his pre-liminary scoring work was matched up to the edited film. He also talks about why he chose acoustic instruments over synths ... even for a film that features a lot of communication technology. Lastly, he reveals how he stealthily employed some sound processing to provide some subtle audio special effects without sacrificing the organic nature of the instrument.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:48 - "Main Theme
04:26 - "Suspend Time"
05:21 - "The River (Part 2)"
06:00 - "The River (Par 1)"
06:39 - "Underground"
07:50 - "A Suspicious Man"
08:27 - "Get in the Car (excerpt)"
09:52- "Pure Inspiration"
11:27 - "Relaxing"
13:16 - "Phone Call"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score is scheduled for release on March 15, 2019 by Atlantic Screen Music.
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Brian Ralston, who has worked as a composer for 15 years, studied film music composition and conducting under film/TV composer Jeff Haskell at the University of Arizona, and completed graduate level work in the Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television program from the University of Southern California. Ralston’s early aspirations for scoring films began in junior high school when he began re-scoring films using an old keyboard and VHS player. He took a particular interest in the work of American composer James Horner. Horner’s ability to create a captivating, infectious melody through his interpretation of what was on screen, inspired Ralston to pursue his career in film music composition. Ralston’s scoring projects includes the feature film “Awaken,” the syfy feature “Planet of the Sharks” and the score for 20th Century Fox’s “Crooked Arrows” starring Brandon Routh and Gil Birmingham, directed by Steve Rash. Brian Ralston's most recent project is for the dramatic love story, BEING ROSE.
The film is written and directed by Rod McCall, stars Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin and Pam Grier. “Being Rose” follows the story of a widowed ex-cop who discovers that she may have a life threatening illness and decides to go on a solo road trip in a motorized wheelchair. On her journey, Rose meets and falls in love with a charming cowboy, who has to come to a crossroads of his own. Rose soon discovers more than just the simple beauty of New Mexico.
In this episode, Brian Ralston takes us through nine tracks from his score for BEING ROSE: sharing how he had to manage not being able to record with any of his musicians simultaneously in the same room; how he used specific instruments to represent the two main characters as well as the two main threads of the film: the love story and central character's spiritual journey.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:57 - "Prelude"
03:57 - "The Journey Begins"
07:15 - "Falling in Love"
09:27 - "Leaving Something Behind"
11:15 - "I'm Dying God Damn it."
14:00 - "Roses' Instructions"
15:14 - "Max Misses Rose"
16:11 - "September/ The Long Car Ride"
19:13 - "The Journey Ends"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on January 29, 2019 from Note For Note Entertainment and is available at Amazon.com, iTunes and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Cris Velasco is an American composer who has worked on video game franchises including Fortnite, Resident Evil, Overwatch, Assassin’s Creed, Warhammer, Mass Effect and God of War, and television series such as HULU’s Dimension 404 and Freakish. He recently returned to the DARKSIDERS franchise to compose the original score for the third game in the popular series.
In DARKSIDERS III players return to an apocalyptic planet Earth, in a hack-n-slash action-adventure. In the game, players take on the role of FURY, the fiercest of the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The expansive Darksiders III game world is presented as an open-ended, living, free-form planet Earth, dilapidated by war and decay, and overrun by nature. FURY will traverse back and forth between environments, battling other-worldly creatures and unlocking puzzles while advancing the Darksiders story.
In this episode, composer Cris Velasco talks about returning to the franchise after co-composing the score for the first Darksiders game. He shares how the main theme organically developed through the selection of key lead instruments as well as with the lead vocalist from the band Niyaz, representing the protagonist, Fury. Velasco also also shares: how and why he chose the waltz to form the backbone for a key boss-fight cue, the delicate conversation he had hiring a vocalist to do heavy-breathing for the score without revealing its context, and, for another boss-fight, how, after missing his window to record with a choir, he was still able to instrumentally convey the religious aspects of the confrontation.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:39 - "Main Theme" (Darksiders)
04:01 - "Main Theme/ Fury's Theme"
06:40 - "Lust"
10:44 - "Pride"
13:50 - "Maker's Hideout"
OTHER TRACKS
00:05 - "Requiem Aeternaum"
02:12 - "Soul Gathering"
16:52 - "Abraxis"
NOTES
Post-recording, Cris Velasco was able to recall the woodwind instrumentalist he referred to at 14:46. His name is Sandro Friedrich from Switzerland.
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released with the collectors edition of the game, and a full soundtrack release is eminent.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Cris Velasco at his official site crisvelasco.com or follow him on twitter @monarchaudio
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Hannes De Maeyer is one of Belgium's most versatile composers - his scores ranging from electronic to symphonic instrumentation. Hannes has collaborated with Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah on three feature film projects: “Image,” “Black,” which won the Discovery Award at the 40th Toronto Film Festivali in 2015 and their third feature, Gangsta (Patser). Hannes De Maeyer recently completed his original score for a brand new entry in the popular German series, “Immenhof.”
IMMENHOF - DAS ABENTEUER EINES SOMMERS (THE ADVENTURE OF A SUMMER) is the long-awaited, family-film directed by Sharon von Wietersheim. The film tells the story of three sisters: Lou, Charly and Emmie, who, after the death of their father, have to try and run the family's horse farm between them. In the film, the sisters have to overcome numerous challenges in order to keep their beloved farm. 'Immenhof - Das Abenteuer eines Sommers' is preceded by several films taking place at the Immenhof horse farm, the first film going all the way back to 1955. It was followed by four other films before ZDF produced an entire 'Immenhof' TV series in the 1990s.
In this episode, Hannes De Maeyer opens up his score for Immenhof and how he musically communicated the feelings and ideas of loss, compassion, perseverance and love. While bringing us through some of the film’s main story-points, De Maeyer dissects a number of his prominent themes and describes how they are employed with a variety of different tones and in different settings throughout the film.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:48 - "Main Theme"
05:17 - "Lou and the Herd"
06:19 - "Happy Life in Immenhof"
07:00 - "Selling Food"
08:04 - "Transferring Holly"
09:54 - "Freeing Holly"
11:00 - "Lou is Sad"
12:02 - "Videos of Her Father"
15:17 - "Race"
16:58 - "Fixing the Problem"
18:27 - "Holly Is Pregnant"
21:23 - "We Meet Again"
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released on January 21, 2019 by Alhambra Records. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Hannes De Maeyer at http://postbillspr.com/hannes-de-maeyer
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Kristina A. Bishoff is a composer and 3-time nominee for Best Music at the Utah Film/Music Awards. She's written music for Salt Lake Pops, Pretty Darn Funny web-series and, as a part of the group THE BLACK PIPER, she wrote music for Kaladin, a book soundtrack that raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter. It was this experience that, in part, inspired her to pursue her own book soundtrack project for GREEN RIDER.
Green Rider is the first book in a series by Kirsten Britain. Published by Daw books, it was nominated for a Crawford Award in 1999 and has become a New York Times best selling series. It is a classic quest tale set in a medieval fantasy world and it begins when protagonist Karigan, is expelled from school. On her way home from school, she encounters one of the magically bound Green Riders, who carries a vital message for King Zachary. The rider, having been mortally wounded, convinces Karigan to complete his mission and deliver the messages ... and thus becoming a Green Rider.
In this episode, Kristina Bishoff talks about her unique challenges in writing her score, both as a composer and a mother of two young children. She explores several of her inspirations and motivations behind several of her key themes and the instrumental palette she chose to help accentuate the reader's experience. She also shares the story of writing a theme (on one-hand) as a part of a stretch-goal from the $100,000 Kickstarter campaign she ran to fund this project.
ANNOTATED SEGMENTS
02:01 - Introduction - the life-changing passion project
03:14 - "Green Rider"
03:28 - "Escape from Selium"
06:00 - "Welcome Rider"
11:32 - "Journey North"
OTHER TRACKS
00:18 - "Rider Barracks"
12:45 - "Rider Barracks"
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released in late 2018. You can find it on CDBaby, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Kristina A. Bishoff at his official site https://www.kristinaabishoff.com/ or follow her on twitter @kabishoff
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Stefano Lentini is a music composer based in Rome, Italy. He has produced music extensively for film, television and documentary. As a multi-instrumentalist, Lentini is known for blending classical music with folk and electronic influences through the use of multitrack recording.
Vents Magazine has called Lentini "a new star" while Il Manifesto and Rolling Stone have called his music "Extraordinary" and "A journey into the dark side of the human mind" respectively.
His debut classical album, FURY, released on November 16, 2018 on Coloora Record and is an indie-classic project with symphonic and progressive influences. It’s a mostly instrumental concept album which has roots in the exploration of anger as a neglected feeling and the search of its meaning.
In this bonus episode, Stefano Lentini talks about the motivation and message behind the music contained on the album 'FURY' and he shares how his music was written to not only to reflect on how humans deal with the emotion of fury, but also on it’s impact upon politics and the world at large. Lentini shares about some key collaborations on the album musically, but also visually. Returning to his work for La Porta Rossa, Lentini concludes by opening up about one last collaboration - working with English songwriter, Charlie Winston, on the song “It’s Not Impossible,” which was used as the main title of the Italian TV series.
Listen to Stefano Lentini’s early Annotator episode (ep. 60), where he talks further about his music used in La Porta Rossa and also in Wong Kar Wai’s “THE GRANDMASTER”
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:23 - "R73" (Fury) by Stefano Lentini
03:25 - "Fury" (Fury) by Stefano Lentini
05:37 - "Suite After the Furies" (Fury) by Stefano Lentini
09:48 - "It's Not Impossible" (La Porta Rossa) by Stefano Lentini feat. Charlie Winston
SOUNDTRACK
His latest album “Fury” was released November 16, 2018. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Stefano Lentini at his official site http://stefanlentini.net.
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Lasse Enersen is a Finnish composer who studied composing in the Sibelius-Academy 2001-2004. He has also assisted film composers (Alexandre Desplat, Abel Korzeniowski, Heitor Pereira). Enersen started his film composer career working on numerous international documentary feature films, but his first fiction feature film credit came with Tuntematon Sotilas/ Unknown Soldier by Aku Louhimies, which became the biggest box office hit in Finland in 60 years.
TUNTEMATON SOTILAS/ UNKNOWN SOLDIER is the story of an infantry unit’s tour of duty that lasts for more than three years during the Finnish Continuation War. The film is based on the classic novel by VÄINÖ LINNA. The film is the story of four young Finnish soldiers, and their brothers-in-arms and shows how friendship, humour, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and back from war. This telling of the story demonstrates how the war changed the lives of each of the soldiers, of those on the home front, and ultimately their entire nation.
In this episode, Lasse Enersen shares several behind-the-scenes stories about his composing and the recording of his original score. He talks about how his unique approach to this score was influenced by an Irish hardanger d’amore player and Finnish lullabies. He also discusses how he sought to ironically capture beauty in a story about war and how the most popular piece of his score was one he wrote in just 15 minutes. Lastly, Lasse Enersen shares the story of how he ended up having three, custom decca mics created for the recording of this score.
ANNOTATED SEGMENTS - Suite from Tuntematon Sotilas
02:20 - Hardanger, Nature and Lullabies
06:01 - Scoring a movie of war and of men
09:54 - Great beauty
12:27 - A Finnish Orchestra and Decca Mics
16:04 - Catharsis and Freedom
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack to Tuntematon Sotilas was released in October of 2017. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Lasse Enersen at his official site http://lasseenersen.com or follow him on Twitter @lassenersen
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Stefano Lentini is a music composer based in Rome, Italy. He has produced music extensively for film, television and documentary. As a multi-instrumentalist, Lentini is known for blending classical music with folk and electronic influences through the use of multi-track recording. His main combinations include acoustic guitars in a John Renbourn’s fingerpicking style with electric bass, piano and string orchestrations. He additionally mixes sampler and synth sonorities with electric guitars. Some of his other film work include music for “The Nest of the Turtledove, The Ballerina, Shooting Silvio, and Grazing the Wall.
In this episode, Stefano Lentini talks about his unusual path to writing music for film and television starting with a piece he wrote for the Italian television series, LA PORTA ROSSA (which was nominated for Best Soundtrack at the Fimucite Film Festival. He then reveals how he was able to get the Stabat Mater he composed to be used in Wong Kar Wai’s 2013 feature film THE GRANDMASTER. And coming in a BONUS EPISODE of The Annotator, you will hear Lentini talk about several pieces of his 2018 release, “Fury.”
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
01:37 - "La Porta Rossa"
04:48 - "Stabat Mater" - The Grandmaster
07:38 - "Stabat Mater" for Violin and String Orchestra
OTHER TRACKS
09:56 - "R73" - Fury
SOUNDTRACK
His latest album “Fury” was released November 6, 2018. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music.
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Los Angeles-based, Multi award winning Composer Steve Horner writes and produces exceptional music in a diverse array of forms and genres. His music has been heard in Film Trailers for Paramount, Lionsgate, Relativity Media and Netflix. Steve has also created custom music and sound design for: Verizon, Intel, Nokia, Boeing, NBC Universal,Target, AMC Theaters, Best Buy, Activision, and many others. He recently created the score for the Animated Short "One Small Step" which just finished an impressive, award winning festival run including two for Best Original Score.
ONE SMALL STEP is an animated short from Taiko Studios co-written and co-directed by Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas.
The animated short is about a young, Chinese-American girl, Luna, who dreams of becoming an astronaut. From the day she witnesses a rocket launching into space on TV, Luna is driven to reach for the stars. In the big city, Luna lives with her loving father Chu, who supports her with a humble shoe repair business he runs out of his garage. As Luna grows up, she enters college, facing adversity of all kinds in pursuit of her dreams. ONE SMALL STEP has already received 29 festival awards and 2 grand jury awards and 69 official selections!
In this episode, composer Steve Horner and co-director, Andrew Chesworth, talk about ONE SMALL STEP, their third collaborative effort for an animated short. They discuss both their sources of inspiration for the music (like Disney's animated features from the 1930s and 40s.) and also their goals for the short and just how important setting those goals were to the entire process. They also discuss how much more important the score becomes for this short which has almost no dialogue and why and how they chose to NOT score certain moments in the short.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:46 - Introduction - Collaborators
04:42 - Inspiration and Presence
07:26 - Commentary - Sound Design and Main Theme
10:24 - Montage Timing and Silence
12:31 - Re-introducing the Music
13:40 - The Realization of the Dream
14:26 - The End Credit Theme
NOTES
You can watch the short, ONE SMALL STEP, on Youtube.
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on November 8, 2018. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music. https://amzn.to/2M7Ekj4
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Steve Horner at his official site http://www.hornermusic.com/ or follow him on twitter @hornermusic
You can follow Andrew Chesworth (Director) at @A_Chesworth
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Award-winning composer Winifred Phillips has more than 13 years of experience in the game industry and a long list of video game credits that include titles from five of the biggest franchises in gaming: Assassin’s Creed, LittleBigPlanet, Total War, God of War, and The Sims. In addition, she has written scores for Homefront: The Revolution, the virtual reality game Dragon Front, The Da Vinci Code, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Speed Racer, Shrek the Third, and Spore Hero. One of her recent game projects has been for the VR game SCRAPER: FIRST STRIKE.
Scraper: First Strike is the first episode of a planned five-part VR sci-tech shooter with RPG and exploration elements. It will take the player on a journey through a new IP with fully developed characters, story arcs, and a world filled with unique and exciting environments. In SCRAPER: First Strike, the player takes on the role of Casey Maxwell, a Modified Hover Pod pilot, and a member of the Human Resistance Force (HRF). Your mission is to help the HRF take back Reactor Building 3, restore power to the secret military base, and drive back the Humech robots that have seized New Austin.
In this episode of The Annotator, Winifred Phillips talks about her journey to and through her original score for SCRAPER: FIRST STRIKE. She explains how she represents both the human side and artificial side of the conflict through her choices in instrumentation and provides a detailed, musical exploration for each of the five tracks from the game's original soundtrack presented here.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:00 - Joining the project
02:16 - "First Strike"
04:36 - "Human Resistance-Force"
06:25 - "Underground Network"
08:21 - "Humechs Attack"
10:59 - "The Humechs"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released by Labrodex Inc on STEAM.
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Ian Honeyman is a prolific film composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist. He plays a wide variety of instruments including violin, guitar, piano, unusual instruments from around the world and some which he built himself, which contribute to his unique sound. Formally trained in composition at Peabody Conservatory, he combines classical skills, cutting edge production and a focus on using live musicians to create unforgettable film scores.
He has contributed music films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Poseidon, Miami Vice, Constantine and TMNT. On his own, Ian has scored feature films such as the Disney film Lilly the Witch: the Dragon and the Magic Book, Operation Endgame, and Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, One of Ian’s most recent original scores is for AN INTERVIEW WITH GOD, starring Academy Award nominee David Strathairn.
The film centers around the character of journalist Paul Asher who, while covering the war in Afghanistan captured some of the best stories of his young career. But that endeavor ends up costing him so much more than he ever could have calculated. Upon returning home, Paul struggles to deal with the after-effects of his experiences, a failing marriage, and his dying faith. Not knowing where to turn, Paul dives deeply into the story of a lifetime—an interview with a mysterious man claiming to be God.
In this episode, Ian Honeyman shares about how he managed writing and recording this score with a tight turn-around time. While balancing his deadline, Honeyman also reveals how he still managed to give his score a unique, organic sound through resourceful decisions like employing his wife for vocal work as well as a Mongolian horse-head fiddle which was given to him by the Chinese, metal band, Voodoo Kung fu!
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
01:56 - "Humanity"
04:09 - "Separate Ways"
06:47 - "Ghost Bike"
07:50 - "Bridge to God"
10:10 - "Long Walk Home"
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 -“Shattered”
12:05 - “Going to the Interview”
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released by HSI Records on November 13, 2018. You can find it on Amazon.com , iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Nitin Sawhney is one the most distinctive and versatile musical voices around today. In 2017 he received the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award. His diverse expertise has established him as a world-class orchestral composer, producer, songwriter, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist. He has worked with and for artists such as Paul McCartney, Sting, A.R. Rahman, Brian Eno and Sinead O'Connor.
Sawhney has scored over 50 titles including: Channel 4's "Second Generation", BBC series "Wonders of the Monsoon" and Mira Nair's "The Namesake" He has also written the original scores to the video games: HEAVENLY SWORD and ENSLAVED: ODYSSEY TO THE WEST. He worked with actor/director Andy Serkis on his 2017 film "Breathe" with Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy, as well as on his latest effort for the Netflix film, "Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle"
Andy Serkis reinvents Rudyard Kipling’s beloved masterpiece, in which a boy who would become a legend, wants nothing more than to find a home. Torn between two worlds, that of the jungle and that of humankind, Mowgli must navigate the inherent dangers in each on a journey to discover who he really is. The film stars Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Freida Pinto, Matthew Rhys and Naomie Harris with newcomer Rohan Chand as "Mowgli".
In this episode, Nitin Sawhney opens up his score for Mowgli revealing how his main theme was written to reflect the essence of the titular character. Sawhney also shares how many of his intricate pieces were written, orchestrated, and performed to convey Mowgli's inward search and outward hero's journey, which both ultimately lead to his self-discovery.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:42 - "The Wolf Boy"
04:04 - "You Belong"
06:10 - "Baghera's Visit"
11:04 - "Holi Festival"
13:00 - "Challenging Khan/The Fight/ There’s The Hunter"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released by Water Tower Music on 11/30/18 both digitally and on CD. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Daniel Pemberton is an Ivor Novello winning and multi-BAFTA nominated composer who has credits include: Danny Boyle's (Steve Jobs), Ridley Scott's (All The Money In The World, The Counsellor), Aaron Sorkin's (Molly’s Game), Darren Aronofsky's (One Strange Rock), Ocean’s 8, Guy Ritchie's (The Man From UNCLE) and, in episode 1 of The Annotator he opened up his score for Ritche’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”. Pemberton’s most recent score is for the feature film SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style. Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask. The film features the voices of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, Zoë Kravitz, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn with Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn and Liev Schreiber.
In this episode, Daniel Pemberton unties his musical web of themes; instruments and "Technics" he used for Into the Spider-Verse. He dives deep into his unique utilization of the hip-hop staple of record-scratching, where HE employs Londoner DJ Blakey and his multifaceted scratching abilities in a multi-layered recording process that may also be a first. He also talks about writing this score both in London but also, due to the ongoing collaborative nature of the project, in Los Angeles. There, he found himself in a small bit of space in the Sony Animation studio, from where he would complete the score as the production period of the film wound to a close.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:04 - "Into the Spider-verse"
05:08 - "Only One Spider-Man"
10:01 - "Visions Brooklyn"
12:00 - "Catch the S Train"
14:25 - "Aunt May and Spider Shed"
18:33 - "Spider-Man Loves You"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released by Sony Music on 12/17/18 both digitally and on CD. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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British film composer Rolfe Kent, who has scored more than 50 films, including: Up in the Air, Sideways, About Schmidt, Election, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde II, Wedding Crashers, and Thank You for Smoking. Kent also composed the Emmy-nominated main title theme for the Showtime hit, Dexter. In 2012, he received the Richard Kirk award for career achievement.
One of Kent's most recent projects is the original score for the feature film STAN & OLLIE. The film follows the story of the famous comedic dynamic duo, Laurel and Hardy; their success and the harsh struggles they faced in their careers.
The 2018 biographical comedy-drama is directed by Jon S. Baird from a screenplay by Jeff Pope. The film stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It premiered in October 2018 at the BFI London Film Festival and is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 28, 2018 and on January 11, 2019 in the United Kingdom.
In this episode, Rolfe Kent reveals how he worked with director Jon Baird on finding the balance in the score between evoking the sound of the silent-movie-era but also a contemporary elements as well. Kent also talks about how he juxtaposed specific, orchestral instruments to vividly contrast the characters of Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy in his music.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:34 - "Main Titles"
03:45 - "Studio Safari"
06:52 - "Desk Bell"
08:10 - "The Split"
10:24 - "The Hard Slog Around the UK"
11:50 - "Train to London"
13:05 - "From the Savoy to Miffin"
14:27 - "Dejected Abbott and Costello"
16:27 - "The Last Show/ Final Dance
SOUNDTRACK
No soundtrack release information is currently available.
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Ethan Gold is an art rock performer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He performs under his name, as well as under his synth pop moniker Vyprz. While moonlighting as bass player and resident musician in his brother Ari’s celebrity-driven folk party band the Honey Brothers, he scored his twin’s debut film "Adventures of Power". Most recently, Gold released his soundtrack of original songs and score to his brother’s second feature, THE SONG OF SWAY LAKE.
This award-winning feature film, tells the story of a young record collector who, after his father’s suicide, goes to his family’s lake house to claim a valuable jazz recording. While he is there, encounters with his estranged grandmother and a neighbor dredge up years of family suffering. The film released in September of 2018 and was produced and directed by Ari Gold.
In this episode, composer ETHAN GOLD talks about how he, in addition to writing the film's original score, came to write key songs for the film to replace the temp music from the 30s and 40s. He also reveals for the first time, the name of a mysterious instrument he employs; one that no one has been able to guess thus far. Lastly, Gold shares how his suffering a serious head injury during his writing process came to significantly impact the instrumentation and tone of his final score.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:21- "Pure Water Opening"
03:35 - "Sway Lake (Big Band Version)"
05:48 - "Blood in the Water"
06:52 - "Dust"
07:23 - "Hidden in the Attic"
09:39 - "Ghost in the Mirror"
10:14 - "Sway Lake Finale"
12:40 - "Sway Lake (Lost Record Version)
15:57 - "Orphan Finale"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was release on September 21, 2018 by Lakeshore Records. The score is available on Amazon.com , itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Ethan Gold at his official site https://ethangold.com/ or follow him on twitter @ethangold
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Henri-Pierre Pellegrin, aka H-Pi or HPi, is a french composer/producer and sound designer, best known for his work in video games (STYX 1 & 2, Trackmania). He as worked in-house composer with Gameloft and also the Game Audio Factory. A fragment of his work is used in the movie ELLE by Paul Verhoeven. BRAVE FRONTIER: THE LAST SUMMONER is one of H-Pi’s most recent video game projects.
Brave Frontier: The Last Summoner is an original, full-fledged mobile JRPG set in the Brave Frontier extended universe. You embark on a fantastic adventure in a new branch of the story set a thousand years after Brave Frontier, leaving Grand Gaia behind. In this standalone adventure, players will meet a new cast of characters as they unravel the mysteries of a new world. This new addition to the Brave Frontier franchise was crafted with a splendid state-of-the-art HD 2D design, bringing all character artworks to life like never before.
In this episode, H-Pi, talks about his score's connections to the original Brave Frontier, and shares a curious story regarding the score’s lead violinist, who's surname was one of most famous names in the world of Japanese gaming - "Kojima." Lastly, Henri-Pierre reveals the origin behind the his pseudonym, H-Pi.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:19 - "Opening Theme"
03:41 - "Elemental Fury"
04:52 - "Generals of Faith"
07:43 - "Pilgrims of Faraway"
10:19 - "Soul Crystal Cave"
OTHER TRACKS
00:07 - "Disciples of Summoner"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was release on September 17, 2018 by G4F Records. The score is available on Bandcamp, Amazon.com , itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by H-Pi at his official site http://hpisound.com or follow him on twitter @hpisound
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Nathan Barr, who began his career with Hans Zimmer, has composed music for more than 30 feature films in addition to his television experience. Has scored all seven seasons of HBO’s Emmy-winning series, TRUE BLOOD. He has worked with Alan Ball, gore-horror master Eli Roth, and many other highly respected directors. Roth and Barr have collaborated on HEMLOCK GROVE and five films: GRINDHOUSE, HOSTEL, HOSTEL 2, CABIN FEVER, THE LAST EXORCISM. In one of Nathan Barr's most recent projects, the composer reteams with director Eli Roth for the feature film adaption of John Bellair's children's classic, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS.
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
In this episode, Nathan Barr talks about recording this score in his own new studio, including a 1928 Wurlitzer theater organ he had restored over four years. He talks about how this film became a great showcase for the inclusion his newly restored organ and how this score ended up being his most traditional score to date. While diving into the thematic development for principle characters of Lewis and Jonathan, Barr reveals the challenges of writing a horror-score for an Eli Roth film where children, instead of adults, were the target audience.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
04:15 - "New Zebedee"
08:18 - "Jonathan with Ax"
09:48 - "Backyard Magic"
11:35 - "Raising Isaac"
14:18 - "Nickolodeon"
18:18 - "Automotans Attack"
19:12 - "Insect Book"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was release on September 21, 2018 by Back Lot Music. The score is available on Amazon.com , itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Anne Chmelewsky is a composer and writer for screen and stage. She has writing music for Mark Weeden's feature film Only People (2018), Sofian Khan's Do We Belong (The Atlantic Selects 2018) and An Act of Worship, (Field of Vision 2017), as well as the Emmy & Golden Globes nominated Derek (dir. Ricky Gervais, Netflix / C4). One of Anne Chmelewsky’s most recent projects has been for the feature film, WHERE HANDS TOUCH, which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2018 and is directed by Amma Asante.
The film is set in 1944, where a 15-year-old girl, daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets a member of the Hitler Youth. They become bound by the realization of the horrors being committed around them.
In this episode, Anne Chmelewsky talks about how she captured the two most important ideas of the film within her score: identity and love; not only writing individual themes for each but composing a delicate yet powerful interaction between the two. She also reveals how some efficient use of left-over time in a string recording session ended up helping to get her hired onto this important feature film project.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:03- "View from the Street"
03:57 - "Where Hands Touch"
06:23 - "Hidden"
08:06 - "End Titles"
12:15 - "We're All Cowards"
13:35 - "We Have to Survive"
18:10 - "Together"
OTHER TRACKS
00:03 - "Prologue - Journey to Berlin"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was release on September 28, 2018 by Varese Sarabande Records. The score is available on Amazon.com , itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Anne Chmelewsky at her official site http://annechmelewsky.com/ or follow her on twitter @Anne_C_sky
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Toby Chu is a Chinese American film composer and over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs. His works include “Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return,” “Surf’s Up 2: WaveMania” He is also scoring NBC’s “The Brave,” and the Freeform original series “Beyond.”
Toby collaborated with Daft Punk, arranging and orchestrating “Adagio for Tron” on the “Tron: Legacy” soundtrack. His credits also include musical contributions to "Man on Fire," “Déjà Vu,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “Domino,” and “Team America: World Police.” Toby recently wrote the score to Pixar’s animated short "Bao."
In “Bao,” an aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly dumpling boy. Mom excitedly welcomes this new bundle of joy into her life, but Dumpling starts growing up fast, and Mom must come to the bittersweet revelation that nothing stays cute and small forever. This short film from Pixar Animation Studios and director Domee Shi explores the ups and downs of the parent-child relationship through the colorful, rich, and tasty lens of the Chinese immigrant community in Canada.
In this episode of The Annotator, Toby Chu walks us through his entire score for the six-minute-thirty-three-second-short giving us insight into how his score largely represents the story arc of the Mom. He shares about how he made use of both Western and Eastern orchestration and how his choices not only reflect the push and pull between two cultures but also the ups and downs of some mother-son relationships.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:47- "Bao"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was release on June 15, 2018 by Walt Disney Records. The score is available on Amazon.com, itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Daniel Hart is a performer and composer from Dallas, Texas, who has toured and recorded with bands like St. Vincent, The Polyphonic Spree, Broken Social Scene, Other Lives, and countless others.
In recent years, Hart has been composing music for film and TV. His feature film debut, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, garnered him critical praise, and Filmmaker Magazine named him one of 2013’s 25 Faces of Independent Film. Hart has scored a dozen feature films over the last four years, including Disney’s Pete’s Dragon and the Natalie Portman-produced documentary Eating Animals. He also composed the music for Showtime's SMILF and Fox’s TV show The Exorcist. In 2017, Daniel Hart composed the original score to A GHOST STORY, released by A24.
David Lowry (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon) wrote and directed A GHOST STORY, starring Academy Award winner, Casey Affleck, and Academy Award nominee, Rooney Mara. The film is about a recently deceased person who returns to his suburban home, as a ghost, to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state, he has become unstuck in time and forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
In this episode, Daniel Hart reveals how a number of key themes came to him by watching early footage of the film repeatedly, how he found himself being recorded playing solo cello for the first time, and how his song, “I Get Overwhelmed” originally written and performed for and by his band Dark Rooms, became a part of A GHOST STORY and how it ended up providing several key elements of the score
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:42- "Little Notes"
05:44- "Post Pie"
06:46 - "The Secret in the Wall"
10:43 - "Vivientes Elim"
14:13 - "I Get Overwhelmed"
OTHER TRACKS
00:03 - "Safe Safe Safe"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was release on July 6, 2017 by Milan Records. The score is available on Amazon.com, itunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Daniel Hart at his official site https://www.danielhartmusic.com/
You can follow Daniel Hart on Twitter @danielmwenda
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Michael Yezerski is a four-time Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) nominated composer. He has worked on numerous Australian television productions such as: MR IN-BETWEEN, A PLACE TO CALL HOME, WANTED, and WOLF CREEK. He has also scored feature films such as THE BLACK BALLOON and THE DEVIL’S CANDY. One of his most recent feature film projects was for BLINDSPOTTING.
Blindspotting was co-written by longtime friends and collaborators, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, who also star in this film featuring a wildly entertaining story about friendship and the intersection of race and class set against the backdrop of Oakland. Bursting with energy, style, and humor, and infused with the spirit of rap, hip hop, and spoken word, Blindspotting, boldly directed by Carlos López Estrada in his feature film debut, is a provocative hometown love letter that glistens with humanity.
In this episode, Michael Yezerski shares the story behind the creation of the first piece of music he wrote for the film which was created to simply rediscover the sound of Oakland, California. He also details how his score was uniquely positioned to continually build tension and and delicately transition scenes from dialogue to spoken-word. Finally, Yezerski also describes the two main thematic and tonal threads he created for this uniquely conceived and told story.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:05- "The Streets of Oakland"
03:33- "Beauty Shop"
06:013 - "Blindspotting"
08:51 - "After the Dead"
10:48 - "Oakland Fox"
11:40 - "Martyrs"
12:58 - "Lifted"
14:17 - "Stalker"
SOUNDTRACK
No soundtrack release information is currently available.
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You can find out more about and hear more music by Michael Yezerski at his official site http://michaelyezerski.com. You can follow Michael Yezerski on Twitter @michaelyezerski
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Dominic Lewis, composer on: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, Disney XD’s upcoming “Duck Tales," and on the first two seasons of Amazon’s THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE returns to score season 3 of the popular streaming series.
The Man in the High Castle is based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel and explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Season three of the Emmy award-winning series finds Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) grappling with her destiny after seeking safety in the Neutral Zone. Realizing that their fates are intertwined, she works with Trade Minister Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) to interpret the mystery of the last remaining films. Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle debuted on October 5, 2018 exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Video platform.
In the last episode of The Annotator, Lewis opened up his work for seasons 1 and 2, but here he reveals how his score for season 3 has continued to evolve while still making subtle references to thematic material introduced in the earlier seasons. Dominic Lewis talks through three pieces he wrote for season 3. He opens up on how he continues to develop thematic material introduced in previous seasons and finally, in his climactic piece of the season 3 finale, he details a number of components and processes he utilized to evoke a sense of mystery and danger.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
01:45- "Trudy Suite"
03:40- "Scrap Metal"
05:23 - "Frank and Inspector Kido"
09:20 - "The Bunker"
SOUNDTRACK
The soundtrack was released by Varese Sarabande on February 9, 2019. It is available at Amazon.com, iTunes, Spotify, and Apple Music.
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Dominic Lewis is a British-born composer and has written original scores for Peter Rabbit, Rough Night and Money Monster. He is slated to score Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Disney XD’s revitalized “Duck Tales.” He has also contributed music to high-profile projects such as: How to Train Your Dragon, Rango, Kung Fu Panda 2, Captain Phillips, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
One of Lewis’ more recent projects has been for Amazon’s Emmy winning series, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. The series debuted on Amazon’s Prime Video platform in January 2015 and is now in its third season.
The Man in the High Castle is based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel. It is executive produced by Ridley Scott and Frank Spotnitz. The series explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
In this episode, Lewis talks about the origins of the series’ unnerving title theme and how he came to the surprising use of a song from the musical Cabaret in season 2. He also shares about a number of his original themes for the series’ main characters and how they evolved over the course of the first two seasons.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:00- "Edelweiss" (Season 1, Track 1)
03:21- "Attentater" - (Season 1, Track 6)
05:49 - "Unofficial Treaties" (Season 1, Track 9)
07:34 - "Julianna's Letter" (Season 2, Track 2)
11:25 - "Kotimichi" (Season 2, Track 8)
13:38 - "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" (Season 2, Track 15)
OTHER TRACKS
16:08 - "Cherry Blossoms"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for season 1 was released on January 13, 2015, and season two on December 30, 2016 by Varese Sarabande. They can be found on digitally on Amazon.com , itunes.com, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can follow Dominic Lewis on Twitter @Domlewismx
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C Andrew Rohrmann (aka SCNTFC) is a composer and sound designer based in Seattle, Washington. Starting his career writing music for advertising, he shortly moved into other forms of media; from television to film, and from film to video games. His work for TV and film include: "Wildlife Detectives" and "The Call of The Wolfman," while his music for video games include titles such as: Virtual Virtual Reality, Oxenfree, Peggle 2 and Mr. Robot: Exfiltration. One of his more recent video game projects is OLD MAN'S JOURNEY developed by Broken Rules based in Vienna, Austria.
Old Man’s Journey is a soul-searching adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, the player embarks on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving. A visual narrative about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, you uncover stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. The game was released in May of 2017 and is available for iOS devices, Android, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and Steam.
In this episode, serving as both composer and sound designer, SCNTFC talks about how he came to score this project, how he wanted to blur the lines between diegetic and non-diegetic music and sound, why he chose to record himself on instruments he wasn't the most proficient at playing. And how his music not only follows the titular old man, but ends up propelling him forward through the game's story.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
03:03- How SCNTFC was hired for Old Man's Journey
04:34- "Oceanside" - the music of the journey
11:31 "Two Towers, Stonewall, The Bridge"
OTHER TRACKS
00:07 - "Carry Me Far"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was released on May 17, 2017. It can be found on digitally on Bandcamp, Steam, Amazon.com, itunes.com, Spotify and Apple Music. IAM8Bit has also released the soundtrack on vinyl.
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You can find more music and more about C Andrew Rohrmann at his official site http://cargocollective.com/scntfc or follow him on Twitter @scntfc
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Darren Fung is one of Canada’s most successful film and TV composers. His diverse credits include a recreation of Canada's beloved Hockey Theme for CTV and TSN and the theme music for CTV’s flagship morning news show Canada AM. He scored the The Great Human Odyssey, a mini-series that explores the roots of human kind for which he received a nomination in the Best Documentary Score from the International Film Critics Association. Most recently Darren Fung scored the new CBC documentary series, EQUUS - STORY OF THE HORSE.
In Equus, Anthropologist-turned-filmmaker Niobe Thompson takes viewers on an epic journey across eleven countries on three continents and back in time to the mysterious beginnings of the horse-human relationship. Over three spectacular hours of cutting-edge science and gripping adventure, Thompson explores the evolution of horsepower, discovers how our ancestors tamed the horse and learns fascinating new insights into the body and mind of this unique animal.
In this episode, Darren Fung talks about working with director Niobe Thompson again and how they worked hard to provide a different musical experience from their previous collaboration on THE GREAT HUMAN ODYSSEY. Fung also reveals how this project changed his opinion on concert organs, what the director labeled as the score’s “propellant”, and how he created an exotic, Kazakstanian feel despite not having those traditional instruments at his disposal.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:10- "Horse"
04:33- "Like Specs of Sand"
08:54- "Man Chases Woman"
10:01- "Far Different"
11:40- "A Human Story is a Horse Story"
OTHER TRACKS
01:32 - "Trust"
13:06 - "A World Without Humans"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was released by Milan Records on September 21, 2018. It can be found on Amazon.com, itunes.com, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can follow him on Twitter @stickyrice
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Jason Graves is renowned for his textural concept scores and innovative orchestration in cinematic narrative games such as Tomb Raider, The Order: 1886, Dead Space, and Lone Echo, for which he made his first appearance on The Annotator (Episode 13). One of Graves' most recent projects has been for VR video game, MOSS from Polyarc.
In Moss, players guide a young mouse hero named Quill on an epic journey while also manipulating the field of play as their own character and key ally to Quill. Moss brings together classic components of a great game – characters, combat, and exploration – with the exciting, interactive opportunities of virtual reality.
In this episode, Jason Graves shares about how both his and Polyarc’s greatest desire was for the player to make a true emotional connection with the game, including through Jason’s original music. Jason also talks about how he was first introduced to the Malukah, who has performed on three of his game scores, but Moss finally being his opportunity to take full advantage of her mesmerizing talents.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:20- "Dear Reader"
08:07- "Cinder Skies"
13:30- "Legends Old and New"
19:28- "Home to Me"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack was released by Materia Collective on August 3, 2018. It can be found on Bandcamp, Amazon.com, itunes.com, Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Jason Graves at his official site: http://www.jasongraves.com/. You can also follow him on Twitter @jgmusic
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Neal Acree is a BAFTA nominated film, television and video game composer whose work includes the massively popular game franchises World of Warcraft, Overwatch, StarCraft, Diablo, Revelation Online, and television shows like Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Michael Tuller is a film/television composer, synth programmer and multi-instrumentalist. He has worked with artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Enimen, Jane's Addiction, Madonna, and Kid Rock.
ANIMAL WORLD is a Chinese film directed by HAN YAN, adapted from a Japanese manga by Nobuyuki Fukumoto about A man, Zheng Kaisi, finds himself deep in debt. He is coerced to board a ship called the DESTINY that hosts a mysterious and risky gambling party. If he wins an apparently simple game, his debt will be canceled.
In this episode, Neal Acree and Michael Tuller reveal how working together on this project resulted in music they describe as NIN meets Lawrence of Arabia! They also open up about how collaborating on this particularly challenging score found them exploring ideas they never would have had they been writing solo and how the theme from Rocky and a famous Chinese Folk song forced them to change direction.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:15- "I am Crazy"
04:52- "The Chase"
08:13- "Dream"
09:17- "Getting Out"
10:48- "Setting Things Right"
12:55 - "Last Round"
16:31 - "The Loan"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for ANIMAL WORLD was released on June 22, 2018 by Velvet Machine Records & Genkaku No Oto and can be found on Amazon.com, iTunes, and is streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Neal Acree at his official site: http://nealacree.com/ or follow him on twitter @neal_acree. You can also follow Michael Tuller on Twitter @AETHRmusic.
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Tom Hodge and Franz Kirmann have had a long standing collaborative relationship. As Piano Interrupted, they have released three albums, Landscapes of the Unfinished, Two by Four and The Unified Field on experimental German label, Denovali Records. More recently, together Tom and Franz composed the score for brand new eight-part BBC / AMC drama McMafia starring James Norton, the first episode of which aired on BBC One on New Year's Day 2018 in the UK, and 26th February on AMC in the US.
In this episode, the duo discusses how they came to write a more classic piece for the McMafia main titles after having written a number of demos that were more in line with their established pulsing, electronic sound. They share about how their discussions with the director James Watkins helped to shape their final composition and how, in the end, the actual main titles sequence of the series was edited to fit their piece.
ANNOTATED SEGMENTS
01:17- Origins of the main title with "McMafia Main Title theme"
03:12- "Demo 1 - Ekongting Song"
04:12- "Demo 2 - Fifteen Shades of Saraba"
04:56- The final version
06:36- "McMafia Main Title theme"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for MCMAFIA is available on Amazon.com, iTunes, and is streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann at their official sites: https://www.tomhodge.com/ and https://www.franzkirmann.com/ or you can follow them on Twitter at @tom_hodge or @franzkirmann.
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Adam Lastiwka is a Canadian-born film and television composer who has scored over five hundred episodes of popular shows airing on networks such as The History Channel, Discovery, Food Network, Syfy and NatGeo. He is best known for his work on the globally-renowned Netflix series ‘Travelers’ from ‘Stargate’ creator Brad Wright, and the Emmy-nominated CBC series ‘Interrupt this Program’.
TRAVELERS is set hundreds of years from now, when the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions.
In this episode, Adam Lastiwka talks about he tried to extrapolate what music would sound like in the future performed by a homgenized people who, while remaining musical, actually played traditional instruments incorrectly. He also shares some of his inspirations for his score and how he wrote music that would help reveal setting, time, and character.
ANNOTATED SEGMENTS
02:23 - Show concept w/ track "Protocol"
06:08 - "Arrival"
04:26 - "Chronocide"
06:08 - "Arrival"
08:25 - "Phillucinating"
11:08 - "Trevor Does Transdifferentiation"
12:54 - "Close Call"
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for TRAVELERS is available on Amazon.com, iTunes, and is streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Adam Lastiwks at his official site: http://www.adamlastiwka.com.
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Steven Burke is a composer and sound designer who has worked on video game projects for Nintendo, Microsoft, and Rare Ltd. Some of his music credits include: Yooka-Laylee, How We Soar and Kameo: Elements of Power. He also created some of the most recognizable game music, listened to by millions of gamers around world - music and sound effects for the dashboards of the Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and the Xbox One game consoles.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was unveiled on May 12, 2005 and has since gone on to sell some 84 million units! The Xbox One succeeded the Xbox 360, as the third Xbox console, and was first announced in My 2013. Estimates say that by the March 2018, some 39 million Xbox One units had been sold.
In this episode, Steve Burke shares the story and process behind the music and sound effects he created for the Xbox 360 dashboard. He reveals some of his original musical sketches created to be used during avatar setup and customization. He also talks about returning in 2009 to do the music for the Xbox 360 Kinect update and how, while under an already tight deadline, not even a dangerous coup in the country he was currently residing in could prevent him from finishing the project!
ANNOTATED SEGMENTS
02:11 - Avatar Begins (Xbox 360 Avatars Suite)
03:01 - Early sketches (Xbox 360 Avatars Suite)
04:00 - Working on the main theme (Xbox 360 Avatars Suite)
05:27 - Sting stories (Xbox 360 Avatars Suite)
06:49 - Kinect, Coup, and Keyboard (Xbox 360 Avatars Suite)
14:23 - Sound Effects and the Xbox One (Xbox 360/One Avatars Suite)
SOUNDTRACK
This music is not commercially available.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Steve Burke at his official site: http://steveburkemusic.com. Follow him on Twitter @steveburkemusic
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Ian Hultquist is an American composer of original scores for films, documentaries and television shows. Sofia Hultquist, is an Italian composer and performer that writes and creates music for film, fashion and media. Together, the husband and wife team have collaborated on scores for films such as: "The First Monday in May" "The Gospel According to Andre" and the feature length documentary, "Love & Bananas."
LOVE & BANANAS chronicles the mission of actor/director Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist Lek Chailert, who cross 480 miles of Thailand to rescue Noi Na, a 70-year old partially blind trekking elephant, and bring her to freedom. This documentary looks to expose the cruel secret that every Asian elephant has had to endure to become a service animal; a process known as Pajan (aka The Crush Box). LOVE & BANANAS aims to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can be done to prevent the extinction of Asian elephants.
In this episode, Ian and Sofia Hultquist talk about how they utilized elephant sounds, recorded during filming, within their score; how the a central character, Lek Chailert, her story and love for elephants influenced their music; and how they creatively dealt with temp music used in early edits of the film.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:22 - "Pajan"
04:27 - "Lek's Theme"
07:39 - "The Road"
10:22 - "The Homecoming"
13:33 - "Part of the Heard"
OTHER TRACKS
15:47 - "Welcome to Thailand"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on April 27, 2018 on the Hultquist’s own label, Little Twig Records, and is available digitally on Amazon.com (https://amzn.to/2vnpVs5), iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Ian and Sofia Hultquist at their official sites: ianhultquist.com and sofiahultquist.com. Follow them on twitter at @ihultquist or @drumandlace
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Jesse Harlin has been a composer for video games for over 15 years. His music has been played by the London Philharmonic at Abbey Road’s Studio 1, but has also has his music blasted among crowds in New York’s Times Square. He is an interactive music designer building music systems with some of the top audio engineers in the industry. Some video game titles to his credit include: THE FORCE UNLEASHED, MONKEY ISLAND 2, STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC and MAFIA III. One of his most recent original scores has been for the video game, YOKU’S ISLAND EXPRESS.
Yoku’s Island Express, a pinball platform adventure game, launched on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch™ and PC on May 29th 2018 from Team17 and developer Villa Gorilla. Yoku, the dung beetle, has arrived on Mokumana Island to take over the role of postmaster and he’s ready for the easy life, soaking up the sun and delivering parcels on a tropical paradise! However, an ancient island deity is trapped in a restless sleep - and it’s all down to Yoku to traverse the island using a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration.
In this episode Jesse Harlin talks about how he focused creating strange and unique instrumentation mixtures in the score: from odd toy sound pairings to percussion via beat-boxing, mixed with soft female vocal work + turntablism … run through ring modulators. He also talks about his use of language as the score starts in French but morphs into Polynesian-like-skatting to other spontaneous sounds he formed into fictional vocabulary.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:13 - "Welcome to Mokumana Beach"
05:44 - "Welcome to the Space Monks"
09:46 - "What Lies Beneath"
OTHER TRACKS
00:09 - "The Slug Gardener"
13:18 - "Gorilla Woods"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on May 28, 2018 and is available digitally on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Jesse Harlin on his official site: http://dunderpatemusic.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @oogew
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Disasterpeace (aka Rich Vreeland) has over 50 albums to its credit. He has composed scores for video games such as: Puzzle Agent and Puzzle Agent 2, Fez, for film such as: It Follows and Under the Silver Lake and for television he has written music for Adventure Time and the soon to be released DIY.
Disasterpeace wrote the original score for the massively popular video game, HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER which released on March 31, 2016 from developer Heart Machine.
The game is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Hyper Light Drifter features intense action, other-worldly environments and a captivating storyline. Our Hero is haunted by an insatiable illness, traveling further into the lands of Buried Time, hoping to discover a way to quiet the vicious disease much like its creator, Alex Preston, who suffers of a heart disease, major source of inspiration for this game. It has been called "a surreal, indie Zelda" by Kotaku and "decadent, cryptic and classy" by Polygon
In this episode DISASTERPEACE takes us through his music for the game's brief intro cinematic. Not once or twice, but three times ... each time unveiling a different handful of audio elements from this deeply layered score filled with musical motifs, sound design, and audio easter eggs.
ANNOTATED TRACKS AND SEGMENTS
02:14 - Piano Sketches
03:40 - Vignette - Visions
04:35 - Main motif
05:06 - Intro. Cinematic / Vignette - Visions #1 (Motifs, Prometheus chord, chug chug, sheen of noise)
08:10 - Intro. Cinematic / Vignette - Visions #2 (Sound design, musical narrative)
10:48 - Deep Drums
11:50 - Snack Jack
13:11 - Intro. Cinematic / Vignette - Visions #3 (Palette library)
OTHER TRACKS
14:49 - The Abyss
SOUNDTRACK
The original score was released on April 12, 2016 and is available digitally on Bandcamp (http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/hyper-light-drifter), Amazon.com (https://amzn.to/2LsXQsF), iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple music.
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You can also hear more music and find out more about Andrew Lockington on his official site: http://disasterpeace.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @disasterpeace
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Canadian-born composer, Andrew Lockington has composed original scores for feature films such as: ‘SAN ANDREAS’, the Golden Globe nominated “FRANKIE AND ALICE” starring Halle Berry,“PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS”, “JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH”, and “CITY OF EMBER”, “THE SPACE BETWEEN US” and the Netflix series “FRONTIER”
He recently scored the 2018, American, sci-fi monster film, RAMPAGE - directed by Brad Peyton. The film is loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It follows a primatologist named Davis Okoye who must team up with George, an albino gorilla who turns into a raging creature of enormous size as a result of a rogue experiment, to stop two other mutated animals from destroying Chicago. It is the third collaboration between Peyton and Johnson, following Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) and San Andreas (2015).
In this episode, Andrew lockington opens up his score for RAMPAGE, sharing with us how he looked to nature to inform his approach, specifically studying gorillas and other apes and the sounds they make. He also studied African music and choir which eventually lead him to employing the African Childrens Choir and, finally, he discusses how he employed electronic elements into his score to connect the film to its video game roots.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:12 - Space
03:30 - Gorillas
05:18 - Pavo
06:27 - Wyoming
07:41 - Cornfield
11:00 - Chicago
13:56 - Requiem
17:03 - Rampage
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The original score was released by Water Tower Music on April 13, 2018 and is available digitally on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple music.
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Ronit Kirchman is a composer, music producer, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. She composes music for film and television, theater and dance, multimedia installations, and the concert stage. Her widely varied film scores include the feature films Zen and the Art of Dying, Finding Neighbors, and The Skin I'm In, as well as The Golden Age of Fish, Say You Love Me, and Gowanus, Brooklyn among many others. Ronit is the composer for the riveting Golden Globe-nominated dramatic series The Sinner (USA Network).
THE SINNER is an eight episode close-ended series, The Sinner follows a young mother (Jessica Biel) who, when overcome by an inexplicable fit of rage, commits a startling act of violence and to her horror has no idea why. The event launches an inverted and utterly surprising crime thriller whose driving force is not the “who” or the “what” -- but the “why” -- as an investigator (Bill Pullman) finds himself obsessed with uncovering the woman's buried motive. Together they travel a harrowing journey into the depths of her psyche and the violent secrets hidden in her past.
In this episode, Ronit Kirchman gives us a detailed breakdown of her music for THE SINNER. She reveals how she wrote the score to help define the very nature of the show as well as the psychology of the series main character. You'll hear how she balances deeper and darker colorations in her music with subtle religious references and lastly action vibes carried by propulsive synths and beats.
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02:05 - Swim
04:37 - Shallow Grave
07:34 - I Love Jesus
09:48 - Determination
10:47 - Simmering
12:52 - APB
14:11 - The Stairway Down
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for season one has been released by Lakeshore Records and is available digitally on amazon.com, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple music.
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Zach co-composed and oversaw all music production for YouTube Red's first developed sitcom, Sing It!, created by YouTube superstars, Benny and Rafi fine. He again collaborated with the Fine Bros for 2017's feature film, F The Prom. He also wrote the theme song for USA Network's NFL Football Fanatic. In parallel to his composing career, Zach creates 1980's inspired electronic music under the pseudonym D/A/D.
Composer Leo Birenberg’S music is featured in Fox’s celebrated hybrid animation series Son of Zorn. Leo has also been a frequent collaborator of composer Christophe Beck, working as a writer, arranger, and producer and has contributed additional music to a number of films, including Frozen, Edge of Tomorrow, Ant-Man, and The Peanuts Movie.
Zach Robinson and Leo Birenberg have co-composed the score for YouTube Red's mega-hit series Cobra Kai, which takes place in the Karate Kid universe thirty-four years after the original film, THE KARATE KID, and stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprising their original roles.
In this episode, composers Zach Robinson and Leo Birenberg open up their original score for COBRA KAI and reveal how they resurrect the spirit of the original KARATE KID. While moving in the music in a contemporary direction they invoke classic retro 80s synth and guitar, traditional flutes and japanese koto, while building to a climactic finale incorporating a 70 piece orchestra.
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02:33 - Ace Degenerate
03:51 - King Cobra
04:54 - Miyagi Memories
06:24 - Final Match
07:24 - Miyagi's Tomb
08:31 - Slither
10:20 - The Cobra and the Mongoose
10:58 - Miyagi-Do
12:43 - Time Out
14:14 - Quiver
15:19 - Stone vs Diaz
16:53 - Sensei Sam
SOUNDTRACK
The original score can be found on Amazon.com, itunes or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Beyond Skyrim: Bruma is an unofficial Skyrim expansion that revisits established themes from the award-winning soundtrack by Jeremy Soule while also incorporating influences from the Far East.
In the game mod, players can travel beyond the borders of Skyrim and explore Bruma, the northernmost county in Cyrodiil where they can delve into the Ayleid ruins, meddle in local affairs or explore the wilds.
Beyond Skyrim: Bruma is composer Daniel Ran’s first composition project of this kind and in this episode he talks the challenge of writing new music of his own that would compliment pieces from Jeremy Soule's original score. He also shares about how he came to write for and work with a choir for the first time on one of the games key pieces. Lastly he reveals how working on this particular project had the surprising effect of making music feel "more real" to him.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
01:41 - Maker of Worlds
06:34 - Last of the Guards
08:35 - Arch Henchman
10:46 - Nox Atra
OTHER TRACKS
00:07 - Apparitions
SOUNDTRACK
The original score can be found on Amazon.com, itunes or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Olivier Derivière is an award-winning composer who has scored music for animation, films and video games and is widely acclaimed for both his composition and innovative approaches to connecting music with the game experience. Some of his groundbreaking titles, Remember Me, Supernova, Obscure, Assassin’s Creed IV Freedom Cry and his previously annotated score for GET EVEN. One of his most recent video game scores is for the DONTNOD video game, VAMPYR.
In Vampyr you play as Dr. Jonathan Reid, a famous surgeon and blood transfusion specialist freshly turned into a vampire after arriving back in his home city of London following the Great War. A man of logic and science, Reid’s firm beliefs are turned inside-out upon awakening to a once-hidden world of secret societies, ungodly creatures and ancient orders set upon ending his existence. All the while, London’s population crumbles under the pressure of a terrible disease – and Dr. Reid may be the city’s last hope to stop it.
Olivier Deriviere returns to THE ANNOTATOR and shares about his main theme from the game and how he heavily employs the cello, throughout the score, to capture the loneliness and struggle of the game’s main character. He details Eric-Marier Couturier’s cello performance which makes use of the double string technique to express the core struggle between the doctor and the vampyr. Deriviere also tells us how he found working on this game a unique privilege despite Vampyr’s main theme centering on the theme of death and how he wrote some of the darkest and most emotional music while dealing with the loss of his own grandmother.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:59 - The Struggle
05:06 - Making a Vampyr
06:45 - The Funerals
11:09 - Insane Family
14:51 - The Cross
17:13 - A Night at Home
SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for VAMPYR is available on bandcamp. You can also stream the soundtrack on Spotify.
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Listen to Olivier Deriviere previous episode for the video game GET EVEN.
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Nima Fakhrara is a composer, ethnomusicologist and the founder of Zoo Creatives. His film credits include “The Girl in the Photographs”, “Consumed,” “The Signal,” and “Gatchman” (Battle of the Planets), while within video game genre, his credits he has “Resident Evil: Revelations 2 and the 2016 release “1970 Revolution.”
One of his most recent projects for a video game is DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN, where is joined by composers Philip Sheppard and Joe Paesano in creating this highly anticipated game's original score.
DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN is an adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4, released worldwide on 25 May 2018. The plot revolves around three androids: Kara, who escapes the owner she was serving to explore her newfound sentience and protect a young girl; Connor, whose job it is to hunt down sentient androids; and Markus, who devotes himself to releasing other androids from servitude. They may survive or perish depending on dialogue choices that shape the story as customized by the player.
In this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Nima Fakhrara, over 8 tracks of his work, opens up about his main challenge of writing music for one of the games main characters, CONNOR. He talks about how, while creating something cold and robotic, he also needed his music for this android investigator to evoke emotion. That challenge was increased by choosing to use only synths and electronics to accomplish this. Nima Fakhara also talks about how Connor’s music is the type of music he believes an android might create for themself.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:22 - Hostage
05:19 - Your Choice
09:27 - Now
11:41 -They All Look the Same
15:17 - I Trust You
15:31 - Meet Markus
18:08 - Wake Up
19:32 - Connor Suite
SOUNDTRACK
The original score has not been released.
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Philip Sheppard is a composer, producer, virtuoso cellist, professor at the Royal Academy of Music and a creative innovator who has worked with some of the biggest names in music, tech, sport and film.
He has composed more than 60 film, gaming, television and theatrical scores including the Star Wars Force Awakens behind the scenes Comic Con trailer which has over 11 million YouTube plays. His other major film works include The Final Year, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, In the Shadow of the Moon (which received an International Film Critics Award nomination for Best Original Score for a Documentary.
One of Sheppard's most recent projects has been for the highly acclaimed video game, DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN. The game, which debuted on May 25, 2018 for the Sony Playstation 4 is an neo-noir thriller, where the plot revolves around three androids: Kara, who escapes the factory she was made in to explore her newfound sentience; Connor, whose job it is to hunt down deviant androids like Kara; and Markus, who devotes himself to releasing the androids from servitude. The characters may survive or perish depending on the choices that are made, which serve to shape the story as customized by the player.
In this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Philip Sheppard reveals his process in writing and recording his very humanizing and emotional music representing KARA, one of the game's key characters. He also talks about why and how he used three different pianos simultaneously to help craft the key components of the theme in its simplest form. Sheppard details how Kara's theme was partially birthed from a fireplace in a snow covered cabin in Montana, where he retreated to to write his music for the game. Lastly, he reveals how he was able to take KARA's theme throughout all of the highs and lows of the game's complex story.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:22 - Little One
06:28 - Kara Main Theme
13:12 - Carousel
14:00 - All This Will Pass
15:31 - By the River
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - "Not Just a Machine"
SOUNDTRACK
The original score has not been released.
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Jim Dooley is an Emmy Award-winning composer/songwriter with a diverse repertoire spanning the film, television, video gaming and live theatrical industries. Among his many compositions in Television, Dooley has written original music for ABC’s critically acclaimed series, “Pushing Daisies,” for which he earned a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for “Best Original Music Composition for a Series.”
He’s also written a number of original scores for Dreamworks features including: “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” “Madagascar” the Academy Award-winning “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” and in video games: “Epic Mickey,” “Infamous” “Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier,” “SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy Seals
One of his recent endeavours was for a Netflix series. Based on the internationally best selling series of books by Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler), season two of the Netflix original series plunges further into the epic world of this darkly comedic mystery. Executive produced by Emmy Award-winner Barry Sonnenfeld and Daniel Handler - the new season of A Series of Unfortunate Events consists of ten cinematic one-hour episodes, and premiered worldwide in the spring 2018, exclusively on Netflix. A Series of Unfortunate Events recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans – Violet, Klaus, and Sunny – and their extraordinary encounters with the devious Count Olaf who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance.
In this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Jim Dooley discusses balancing some of the more menacing and psychological Bernard Herrmann influences with the whimsical nature of the books and series. He shares about writing themes for the three Squalor children which were defined by their actions rather than by their characters. And he also opens up how he had to write a Mambo which embellished with the sounds of children's toys.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:35 - Lemony in Sewer
04:01 - Introducing Esme
04:57 - Violet Searching the Penthouse
05:32 - Olivia Runs After Taxi
06:29 - Sunny's Mambo
08:37 - The Kids Emerge from the Tunnel
10:09 - Entering the Village
11:46 - The Village Elders
13:04 - Hector's Balloon
15:07 - VFD Party
SOUNDTRACK
The original score has not been released.
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Christopher Lennertz is a composer and producer for film, television, records, and video Games. His vast portfolio includes television programs such as: Marvel’s Agent Carter, Galavant and Supernatural and among his many video game credits are titles within the Medal of Honor and Mass Effect franchises. He has also composed scores for numerous, animated, family features such as: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hop and Smurfs: The Lost Village which was featured in episode 4 of The Annotator. One of his most recent, high-profile projects is his original score for LOST IN SPACE.
Produced by Legendary Television, LOST IN SPACE is a Netflix Original dramatic and modern reimagining of the classic 1960’s science fiction series. Set 30 years in the future, colonization in space is now a reality, and the Robinson family is among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find themselves abruptly torn off course en route to their new home they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light-years from their original destination.
In this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Christopher Lennertz, out of the 500 minutes of score he composed, tells the story behind three crucial cues from his score for season one. Here, he shares how he made use of John Williams' season 3 theme from the original Lost in Space TV series. The composer reveals what pivotal moment in the pilot episode he felt he had to understand and score exactly right. Finally, Lennertz shares how he allowed the more dramatic moments of season one to inform his choices for instrumentation making the score more intimate at times and at others more scientific.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:19 - Maker of Worlds
10:06 - Danger Will Robinson
13:54 - Illuminations
OTHER TRACKS
00:03 - Main Titles
01:11 - End Credits
18:28 - Flowers, Father and Son
20:35 - End Credits
SOUNDTRACK
The original score can be found on Amazon.com, itunes or streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Composer Mark Yaeger has composed original music, written songs, played solo instruments, and produced the score on over 30 Hollywood and independent films. Additionally, he is a long-time composer collaborator with Klaus Badelt. Just a couple of those collaborative efforts include feature films such as QUEEN OF THE DESERT and SHANGHAIL CALLING, while his work for television can be heard in the 2014 series HALO: NIGHTFALL.
FAR CRY 5 - INSIDE EDEN'S GATE is one of Yaeger's most recent projects. Released on March 5, 2018 -and is a short-film released directly to Amazon Prime Video. The short was designed as back-story to the video game FAR CRY 5 which released a few weeks after on March 27, 2018. When rumors of a fanatical cult in Hope County, Montana begin to swirl, three vloggers take it upon themselves to investigate what's really going on. As they track down missing locals and probe into other strange events, they eventually encounter Joseph Seed, the leader of The Project of Eden's Gate cult and the man behind all the unusual activities in Hope County.
In this episode of The Annotator, Mark Yaeger talks about writing an original score for the short-film that would paint the antagonist of the video game, FAR CRY 5, in a different light. He elaborates on his choice of instrumentation and stylistic choices to emphasize emotion over darker elements that would thoroughly be covered musically in the game that would follow.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:02 - Seed
03:35 - Bliss
08:10 - Enchantment Ostinato
08:49 - Revival
SOUNDTRACK
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Michael Kramer is an Emmy nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist for film, television, and video games. His recent TV credits include the Cartoon Network series LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu, the original HULU series Complete Works, CBS Sports’ Ball Up, and Sons of Tuscon on FOX. Michael’s music can heard in Furious 7, Thor: The Dark World, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, on which he collaborated with Brian Tyler. His video game credits include Need For Speed: The Run, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, and Assassin’s Creed: Unity.
Michael Kramer is currently scoring the hit Disney XD TV series LEGO STAR WARS: The Freemaker Adventures, for which he received a 2017 Emmy Award nomination. His score is recorded with a live 80-piece orchestra and carries the universal message of Star Wars to a new generation.
In this episode of The Annotator, Michael Kramer talks about how he dances along the lines of the familiar musical building blocks forged by John Williams, while still introducing something unique in the the Star Wars musical universe. In order for listeners to hear how new themes are introduced and developed over the course of an episode, here, Kramer specifically covers the musical arc of the first episode in Season 2.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
01:58 - Main Titles - The Freemaker Family Theme
02:37 - Training M-OC
03:47 - Rowan and Quarrie
05:40 - The Emperor, Vader and M-OC
06:45 - Rowan Captured
13:37 - The Arrowhead
OTHER TRACKS
00:44 - Force Theme Redux
01:29 - We're Home
15:02 - Rowan's Theme
SOUNDTRACK
There has been no announcement about an official soundtrack release.
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Gordy Haab is a multi award-winning film, video game and television composer who has written music for many well-known titles, including Microsoft’s “Halo Wars 2, and EA’s “Star Wars Battlefront I”, which won Music of the Year, Best Interactive Score, and Best Instrumental Score at the 2016 GDC G.A.N.G. Awards, and was nominated for a BAFTA for Excellence in Audio Achievement. Additionally, Haab scored Activision/AMC's "The Walking Dead", based on the #1 hit TV series and Microsoft's "Kinect: Star Wars", which won "Best Music" at the Hollywood Music In Media Awards. Haab continues to compose the music for EA and Bioware’s "Star Wars: The Old Republic," for which he was awarded "Best Original Soundtrack" and "Best Instrumental Music" at the 10th Annual GDC G.A.N.G. Awards.
Building upon the foundation of groundbreaking visuals and authenticity of EA’s original Star Wars Battlefront, DICE, Motive and Criterion teamed up to deliver an expansive follow up to the popular Star Wars game. Star Wars Battlefront II allows players to experience the untold story of an Imperial elite special forces soldier in an all-new single player campaign. In epic multiplayer battles also return, as players are able to pilot a First Order TIE fighter through intense dogfights in space, and play as ground troopers or iconic heroes and villains, such as Yoda and Darth Maul, across all three Star Wars eras.
In this episode of The Annotator, Gordy Haab gives us a detailed talk through a special, combat suite from his original score for Star Wars Battlefront 2. The suite features many of the most prominent themes from the video game including: the Battlefront Imperial and Republic themes, specific themes for two important locations in the game and a theme for the single player campaign’s central character, Iden Versio.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:20 - Combat Suite
SOUNDTRACK
There has been no announcement about an official soundtrack release.
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Kevin Riepl is an award-winning composer writing for multiple entertainment genres. His engaging orchestral, hybrid and atmospheric scores have enhanced films such as BATMAN: UNLIMITED and CABIN FEVER (2016 reboot). Additionally, he’s scored film festival winners and genre cult films such as the emotional sci-fi short HENRI and Oddball Animation Studios’ stunning concept film, RUIN. KEVIN RIEP is also renowned for composing the epic, signature scores for blockbuster video games including GEARS OF WAR, the UNREAL series, and ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES
The mini-series, ATROPA, is one of Kevin Riepl’s most recent projects and for it he delivers a bold original score, sometimes grand and at other times eerily beautiful and at still others, pulse-pounding.
ATROPA, the new Canal+ streaming series, is a 7-part adventure consisting of 11-13 minute-long episodes. The series tells the story of a troubled Off-World Officer, running from his past, but finding himself slammed directly into it when he boards the mysterious spaceship ATROPA.
In this episode of The Annotator, KEVIN RIEPL is joined by the director of the mini-series, Eli Sasich, and together they talk about why where the heavy Alien franchise influences originated in this score. Riepl describes how the difficult choices he had to make regarding when to record live instruments and when to use sample libraries and how working collaboratively with the director of the mini-series helped shape crucial moments of the score.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:17 - The Morinda
08:11 - Bringing Him In
10:36 - Regret
16:00 - To the Escape Pod
OTHER TRACKS
00:13 - Atropa (End Credits)
18:10 - Cole Patrol Part 1
19:05 - Cole Patrol Part 2
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for ATROPA by Kevin Riepl was released on March 23, 2018 by Moviescore Media. You can find it on Amazon.com, iTunes, and streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
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Panu Aaltio is a composer based in Helsinki and Los Angeles. He has composed music to over 20 feature films, multiple TV series and video games, as well as a full-length ballet for the Finnish National Opera.
For his first solo feature work, The Home of Dark Butterflies, Panu Aaltio received a Jussi Award (Finnish Film Award) nomination in 2008. His next feature, the horror film Sauna in 2008, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by IFC Films. Since then he has been one of Finland's most prolific film composers.
Panu Aaltio has received the Best Documentary Score award twice from The International Film Music Critics Association, first in 2013 for the nature documentary Tale of a Forest, and in 2017 for the follow-up Tale of a Lake, for which he also won a Jussi Award. One of his most recent scores was for the late 2017 film, 95.
95 is a Finish drama about ice hockey and national pride. It’s a multi-faceted telling of how Finland came to win the Ice Hockey World Championship for the first time, and how it affected Finnish society to its very core.
In this episode of The Annotator, Panu Aaltio unpacks his original score for the 2017 film and tells how he addressed tackling this under-dog story that ended up enrapturing an entire country. Aaltio shares about writing music that helps elevate or change the idea of hockey as a mere sport to the that of an intense battle or an even greater spectacle. The composer opens up about writing a score that covers a wide range of emotions and contexts from epic to intimate and from tragic to triumphant.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:14 - The End of a National Nightmare
04:58 - A New Start
07:21 - The Final Match
08:27 - The Goalie is Choking
09:56 - Panic Attack
12:23 - The Royal Castle
14:31 - You Can Be Anything You Want
SOUNDTRACK
The original score for "95" will be released later in 2018 by Moviescore Media.
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You can hear more music from Panu Aaltio at his official site (panuaaltio.com) Follow Panu Aaltio on Twitter @panuaaltio
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Kris Maddigan - Cuphead
Kristofer Maddigan is a percussionist, drummer and composer based in Toronto, Canada. A member of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra since 2010, Kris also performs regularly with a wide range of groups including The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Toronto Concert Orchestra, The Thunder-Bay Symphony, Kris also works with numerous jazz, theatre and new music groups in and around Toronto.
Kris has composed music for the ‘My Virtual Dream’ project which premiered at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2013 and one of his latest projects was composing the soundtrack for the video game ‘Cuphead‘, which debuted on X-Box One, Windows 10 and Steam on September 29, 2017.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings. Play as Cuphead or Mugman (in single player or local co-op) as you traverse strange worlds, acquire new weapons, learn powerful super moves, and discover hidden secrets while you try to pay your debt back to the devil!
In this episode of The Annotator Kris Maddigan cuts deep into two tracks which have not gotten the attention from fans and reviewers so far - one of which is his personal favorite from the soundtrack.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:20 - Disc 1, Track 6 - Inkwell Isle One
06:40 - Disc 1, Track 26 - Pyramid Peril
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track 1 - Introduction
12:24 - Disc 2, Track 8 - Dramatic Fanatic
SOUNDTRACK
The original score by Kris Maddigan was released on September 27, 2017 by Studiomdhr Entertainment Inc. and can be found on Amazon.com, iTunes and streaming on Spotify. You can also order the Cuphead Deluxe 4-LP Edition (Vinyl) from IAM8BIT
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You can hear more music from Kris Maddigan at his official site (KrisMaddigan.com). Follow Kris Maddigan on Twitter @krismaddigan
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Dominik Scherrer - Requiem
Dominik Scherrer is a British-Swiss composer, mostly known for his award-winning music for Ripper Street, Marple & BBC's The Missing. Dominik’s credits further include Scenes of a Sexual Nature starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Bonneville, and Alice Through The Looking Glass starring Kate Beckinsale. Scherrer is currently scoring The Widow, an eight-episode original series for ITV & Amazon, starring Kate Beckingsale. Another recent composing project for Scherrer is BBC One and Netflix psychological thriller “REQUIEM”.
REQUIEM was created and written by Kris Mrksa and directed by Mahalia Belo. this brand new psychological thriller series, starring Lydia Wilson, tells the story of brilliant young cellist Matilda Gray. When her mother inexplicably commits suicide, Matilda discovers tantalizing evidence linking her mother to the disappearance of a Welsh toddler 23 years before. When Matilda decides to travel to Wales, determined to explore the link between the two terrible events, her life suddenly spirals into a giant mystery and she starts to obsessively search for her true identity.
In this episode DOMINIK SCHERRER talks about the unique challenges he faced in creating a mysterious and unsettling score for the series; how John Tavener influenced him to write for cello to create an ethereal; otherworldly feel for the score, and how he collaborated with Natasha Kahn (Bat for Lashes) to add her vocals and omnichord to give its score its cultish feel.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:02 - Track 4 - Adopa
03:58 - Track 11 - Xai
06:47 - Track 9 - Edlprnaa
08:39 - Track 6 - Saaiz
10:10 - Track 10 - Lavavoth
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track 1 - Aigra
SOUNDTRACK
The original score by Christopher Willis was released on Februrary 9, 2018 by Dubois Records and can be found on Amazon.com, iTunes and streaming on Spotify.
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You can hear more music from Dominik Scherrer at his official site.
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Christopher Willis is an Emmy-nominated, multi-talented composer working in the mediums of film, television, and games. Christopher is known for his work on HBO's hit comedy series, Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He currently scores The Lion Guard and the multiple Emmy Award-winning Disney Mickey Mouse shorts. One of his most recent project was for the feature film, THE DEATH OF STALIN.
The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire film directed by Armando Iannucci. It chronicles the Soviet power struggles set off by the death of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name.
The film was released by eOne Films in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2017 and is set to be released in the United States by IFC Films on March 9, 2018. The film was also screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.
Christopher Willis’ score for The Death of Stalin has garnered much praise and a nomination for Best Music at the 2017 British Independent Film Awards and in this episode, he talks about writing a score in the great Soviet tradition of music composition. He shares about how he made the jump into this segment of the classical world of music; Willis describes his road to discovery of the powerful and pompous Soviet scores as he prepared to write his own for the satire.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
01:55 - Track - Moscow 1953
04:35 - Track - Beria's Plan
06:16 - Track - Special Delivery
06:49 - Track - Removal Men
08:41 - Track - Pall-Bearers
10;52 - Track - He Looks So Small
11:42 - Track - Back from the Gulags
13:02 - Track - Let the People Come
15:44 - Track - Setting the Trap
17:35 - Track - Staging a Coup
20:14 - Track - Flowers
21:16 - Track - A Comedy of Terrors
SOUNDTRACK
The original score by Christopher Willis was released on December 1, 2017 and can be found on Amazon.com, iTunes and streaming on Spotify.
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You can hear more music from Christopher Willis at his official site. Or follow him on Twitter@mrchriswillis
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Carlos Rafael Rivera is a commissioned and award winning composer whose career has spanned several genres of the music industry, including his original score for Universal Pictures' A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, starring Liam Neeson.
A protégé of Randy Newman, Rivera is also a guitarist and has performed onstage as opening act for The Who at the Hollywood Bowl. His work for the performing arts has been featured by some of the most prominent ensembles and soloists, including: Arturo Sandoval, Colin Currie, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. He has also served as Composer-in-Residence with the Miami Symphony Orchestra.
One of his most recent projects is for FOR the NETFLIX original series, GODLESS, directed by Scott Frank, produced by Steve Soderbergh, and starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Dockery. This serie tells the story of a ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
In this episode, Carlos Rivera talks about his 18 month journey in writing the score - writing some 4.5 hours of music for the series. He also shares about the evolution of some of the key musical moments, and just how he worked closely with the show’s creative team and instrumentalists throughout which opened new doors for creativity to the composer.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
01:42 - Track - Godless Suite
OTHER TRACKS
00:14 - Track - "Godless Theme"
08:06 - Track - "Finale"
SOUNDTRACK
No release information is available.
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You can hear more music from Carlos Rafael Rivera at his official site. Or follow him on Twitter @composer313
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Waveshaper is a Swedish, electronic music artist inspired by the soundtrack scene of the 80s early 90s. He emerged back in 2013 and has become one of the most well known artists in the Synthwave scene. In 2016 he released the album “Station Nova” on NRW Records and contributed with four original tracks to the PS4 / Xbox game “Furi."
Originally a classically trained pianist, Swedish electronic musician, Robert Parker, went from tracker music during the 90s to retro-esque in the following decade. His studio is located in Stockholm, where he creates music that ranges between chiptunes to disco. He does regular live shows. and has played in Canada, Australia, France, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Russia and China.
VIDEOMAN is a Swedish, independent film directed and written by Kristian A. Söderström, where a VHS collector and a woman obsessed with the 80s, both alcoholics, initiate a romance that helps them battle their personal failures.
In this episode. both WAVESHAPER AND ROBERT PARKER talk about this, their first work for a feature film. They discuss how they came onto this unique project and compare it to their experience in writing music for other genres like Irish folk music, short films and video games. They also talk about their approach to their score by using nostalgic instrumentation to help tell this contemporary story, yet not be limited by this instrumentation as their total musical palette.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:03 - Track 2 - Videoman (Waveshaper)
05:07 - Track 14 - Confronation (Waveshaper)
06:19 - Track 4 - Simone's Theme
OTHER TRACKS
00:05 - Track 10 - Drift Apart (Robert Parker)
09:25 - Track 1 - Prologue (Waveshaper)
SOUNDTRACK
The release of the original soundtrack for VIDEOMAN releases on January 26, 2018 and is available digitally at Amazon.com.
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You can hear more music from WAVESHAPER at his official Bandcamp page. Or follow him on Twitter @waveshaper_SWE
You can also hear more music and find out more about ROBERT PARKER’ at his official tumblr page or follow him on twitter @robertparkerSWE
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Composer Stephen Baysted Award-winning British Film, TV and Video Game is well known for his versatility and for his emotionally charged and expressively powerful music. His recent scores for film include I, Claude Monet, Renoir: Revered and Reviled, and The Impressionists. For video games, some of his recent scores include the number one bestselling racing titles: Electronic Arts: Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed and Need for Speed: Shift; Atari's Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends; Project Cars and his most recent, Project Cars 2.
Project CARS 2 is the second installment in the best-selling and critically-acclaimed Project CARS motorsport franchise developed by Slightly Mad Studios. Building on the success of 2015’s chart-busting, multi-platform Project CARS, Project CARS 2 takes the franchise and its fans into a blistering new era of motorsport simulation with the largest track roster ever seen on console, a wholly revamped out-of-the-box gamepad experience, 5 motorsport disciplines, 29 motorsport series, 180 cars from dozens of elite brands, and over 140 revolutionary “living”, organic tracks in 60 locations , to bring you the most authentic racing game ever devised.
In this episode, STEPHEN BAYSTED talks about how, even though there is no music during actual gameplay, his score is designed to take players through a great range of emotion. He talks about how his music actually prepares the player psychologically for each upcoming race. One of Baysted's other goals was to get inside the actual head of a racer and express those things that think about and experience before a race. To accomplish this Baysted interviews racing driver Ben Collins to get his unique perspective on racing … and you will hear bits of those very interviews in this episode as well.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
07:30 - Track 1 - Eau Rouge
11:14 - Track 4 - Race to Win
14:26 - Track 3 - Pressure
17:38 - Track 11 - Guts and Glory
OTHER TRACKS
20:43 - Track 8 - The Long Road
SOUNDTRACK
The release of the original soundtrack for PROJECT CARS 2 was released on September 22, 2017 and is available digitally at Amazon.com and iTunes and is available to stream on Spotify.
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You can find out more and hear more music at STEPHEN BAYSTED’S official site http://www.stephenbaysted.com/
You can follow Wilbert Roget on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenbaysted
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In this first-ever, Annotator Bonus Track episode, DANIEL PEMBERTON returns to deliver some insight into one of the most memorable pieces from the score, ASSASSINS’ BREATHE (KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD). He talks about his weirdest moment in his composing career and director Guy Ritchie’s desire for unusual elements in his scores drove him to new lengths when writing.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:50 - Track 13 - Assassins Breathe
SOUNDTRACK
The KING ARTHUR - LEGEND OF THE SWORD original soundtrack with original score by Daniel Pemberton has been released BY WATER TOWER MUSIC. A digital 30-track deluxe edition was rel on May 5, 2017 and later the standard, 26-track verion on CD on May 19, 2017. You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.. http://amzn.to/2rdkaMi
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You can find out and hear more music by DANIEL PEMBERTON at his official website DANIELPEMBERTON.COM or follow him on twitter @danielpemberton
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Wilbert Roget, II is an award-winning composer in the video game industry. He joined LucasArts as a staff composer in 2008, where he scored several games in the Star Wars universe, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: First Assault. Later as a freelance composer, he scored video games such as: Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Dead Island 2, Anew: The Distant Light and other indie and AAA titles.
Inspired at an early age by classic Japanese game soundtracks, Roget specializes in writing music that employs memorable themes, developed throughout the score in a traditional fashion. Wilbert Roget II’s most recent video game score is for the famous CALL OF DUTY franchise.
Call of Duty® is makes a dramatic return to the greatest military conflict in history and where the franchise first began, World War II. CALL OF DUTY: WORLD WAR II takes the franchise back to its roots in a bold cinematic experience that captures the unforgettable heroism of the soldiers who fought together in a war that changed the world forever. Activision's gripping new title is an honest portrayal of World War II from the perspective of the famed 1st Infantry Division, with an ensemble cast of global and diverse characters. Through stunning visuals and intense audio, players storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, march across France to liberate Paris and ultimately push forward into Germany in some of the most monumental battles of all-time.
In this episode, Wilbert Roget II discusses coming on to score the next entry into the popular video game franchise originally scored by composer Michael Giacchino back in 2003. Giacchino's Call of Duty scores greatly influenced Roget's career choice and were scores he once studied in college. You will hear Wilbert Roget talk through four tracks "Marigny, Paris, Burga and A Brotherhood of Heroes" having selected each track as they best exemplify his CALL OF DUTY: WORLD WAR II score, the game’s musical direction and collaborative process employed to make the score a reality.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:50 - Track 3 - Marigny
06:16 - Track 8 - Paris
09:09 - Track 19 - Berga
11:15 - Track 1 - A Brotherhood of Heroes
SOUNDTRACK
The release of the original soundtrack for CALL OF DUTY: WORLD WAR II was released on November 3, 2017 and is available digitally at Amazon.com and iTunes and is available to stream on Spotify.
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You can find out more and hear more music at WILBERT ROGET’S official site http://www.rogetmusic.com
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Jason’s diverse musical background as a composer, drummer, keyboardist, guitarist and world percussionist allow him to expertly compose in many different genres of music. As a result, his game credits alone include more than one hundred titles, ranging from electronic and rock to full symphonic scores. He performs world percussion, drums and guitar on many of his own tracks and has conducted and recorded his live orchestral scores at Abbey Road Studios, Air Studios London, Capitol Records, FOX, Paramount Pictures and Skywalker Sound. One of JASON GRAVES’ most recent project has been for the VR video game, LONE ECHO.
Lone Echo is a virtual reality adventure game developed by Ready At Dawn, and published by Oculus Studios. Set aboard a space station orbiting Saturn, it allows players to move in zero-gravity by grabbing and pushing off of the environment. In addition to the narrative single-player game, the title includes a team-based multiplayer sports mode called Echo Arena, which was also released as a stand-alone game.
The original music for Lone Echo and Echo Arena combines ambient, analog synth soundscapes with gritty drums and features the ethereal vocals of Malukah. Lone Echo and Echo Arena were released on July 20, 2017.
In this episode, JASON GRAVES talks through a LONE ECHO suite that he wrote and includes how he incorporated the heavenly vocals of Malukah in subtle and surprising ways throughout the piece. He goes on to share how he combines this with his extensive use of synthesizers to underline the games’ central focus: the relationship between humanity and technology.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:16 - Track 5 - So Near, So Far (Suite from Lone Echo)
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track 1 - Welcome to Kronos II
02:08 - Track 4 - Rings of Saturn
21:24 - Track 3 - Entering the Arena
SOUNDTRACK
The release of the original soundtrack for LONE ECHO was released on August 30, 2017 and is available digitally at Amazon.com and iTunes and is available to stream on Spotify.
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You can find out more and hear more music at JASON GRAVES’ official site http://www.jasongraves.com/
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Michael Nielsen and Kaveh Cohen - Forza Motorsport 7
Kaveh Cohen and Michael Nielsen are composers and producers of music for film, television, video games, and motion picture advertising. They have collaborated on projects for over 10 years and, between them, they have scored successful game franchises such as: League of Legends and Splinter Cell; for television: the History channel’s epic, 12-part series “America: The Story of Us" and Marvel’s hit animated series “Wolverine and the X-Men”. They’ve also produced music used in the movie traliers such as: "Rogue One," Creed, The Hunger Games, Mad Max: Fury Road, True Detective, Game of Thrones "Doctor Strange,"
One of their most recent project has been for one the most successful motorsport franchises in the world, FORZA MOTORSPORT 7. The racing video game was developed by Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Studios, and is the tenth installment in the Forza series. It was released on Microsoft Windows and Xbox One on October 3, 2017. The game has earned high marks from around the gaming community including a rating of 8/10 from Gamespot, a 9.2/10 from IGN, and an 86 from Metacritic,
In this episode, Mchael Nielsen and Kaveh Cohen talk about their musical journey from the symphonic scope of Forza Motosport 6 to the more “vintage rock” tone of Forza Motorsport 7.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:13 - Track - FM6 Theme - “Forza Motorsport” (FM6)
05:08 - Track - Love of the Sport (FM6)
05:54 - Track - From Flag to Flag (FM6)
07:10 - Track - Big Bang (FM7)
09:03 - Track - Dialed In (FM7)
11:03 - Track - Hanky Pank (FM7)
12:14 - Track - Lock It Up (FM7)
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track - From Flag to Flag (FM6)
01:12 - Track - Big Bang (FM7)
18:43 - Track - FM6 Theme - “Forza Motorsport” (FM6)
SOUNDTRACK
The release of the original soundtrack for FORZA MOTORSPORT 7 is slated for release in December 2017 by Sumthing Music Works., the soundtrack for FORZA MOTORSPORT 6 is available digitally at Amazon.com and iTunes and is available to stream on Spotify.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
You can hear more music and find out more about the composers at MICHAEL NIELSEN’S and KAVEH COHEN’S official site’s http://michaelnielsen.com and kavehcohen.com
You can follow KAVEH COHEN on Twitter at twitter.com/kavehcohen and MICHAEL NIELSEN at twitter.com/audiomichael
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Grant Kirkhope - Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Grant Kirkhope is a BAFTA nominated composer who has created the soundtracks to video games that have sold in excess of 30 million copies including "Ghostbusters”, “GoldenEye 007," “Banjo-Kazooie”, “Perfect Dark.” “Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.” “Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth” and “Viva Piñata." One of his most recent projects has been for the hit video game, “Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle”
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle follows the most iconic video game character, Mario, and the irreverent Rabbids, on an unexpected journey to save the Mushroom Kingdom, in a new turn-based combat adventure. Developed by Ubisoft Milan and Ubisoft Paris,* Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle features Mario, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Luigi and four Rabbid heroes taking on combat, puzzles and exploration across four iconic worlds. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle takes full advantage of the play anywhere, anytime ability of the Nintendo Switch, with battles playable on-the-go or at home. The video game was released on August 29, 2017.
In this episode, Grant Kirkhope shares his story on how he was brought on the game not knowing it was a Mario based game. He also compares and contrasts his midi mock ups with the final recording with live orchestra of the games title theme and his new theme for Bowzer.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
07:14 - Track - “Peach's Castle” Midi / live
12:39 - Track - “Bowser's Theme (Boss Battle)" Midi / live
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track 10 - "Hoppers"
03:14 - Track 16 - "Tower Tweeter"
17:40 - Track 10 - "Hoppers"
SOUNDTRACK
The original scoundtrack to MARIO + RABBIDS KINGDOM BATTLE was released digitally in August 2017 and can be purchased at Amazon.com or iTunes, and can be streamed on Spotify.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can hear find out more and hear more music at GRANT KIRKHOPE'S official site http://grantkirkhope.com
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Tim Wynn - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Tim Wynn is the quintessential modern day composer/producer, and his diverse portfolio includes feature films, television series, documentaries and video games. Tim Wynn studied at the USC School of Music, where he studied under Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, Buddy Baker and Jerry Goldsmith.
Wynn’s music career is notable by the diversity of his credits. In addition to his feature film the work for television, just some of his viideo game projects include:: Darkness II (2K), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA), Total War:Warhammer (Sega), Madden NFL 25 (EA), The Simpson’s Game (EA), and Warhawk (Sony). One of Tim Wynn’s most recent video game score is for XCOM 2 - WAR OF THE CHOSEN.
In August, 2017, Feral Interactive released XCOM® 2: War of the Chosen, the expansion pack for the award-winning 2016 strategy game XCOM 2 for PC, Mac OS and Linux. Developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K for PC and consoles, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen adds a massive amount of content to XCOM 2.
War of the Chosen brings thrilling new material to the fight against ADVENT, the human enforcers of the alien regime occupying Earth. When additional resistance factions emerge to eliminate the invaders, a sinister new enemy, the “Chosen”, arises. They have one goal: to recapture the Commander of XCOM. The expansion includes new Hero classes to counter the “Chosen”, new enemies, missions, even more challenging environments and increased depth in strategic gameplay.
In this episode, TIM WYNN will take us into two tracks from his original game score. First, he breaks down his forceful and menacing main theme for The Chosen. Second, he describes the track "Metal and Steel." He describes the momentum-building music that is heard when the player prepares for a mission and the techniques employed to deliver what he calls “2 minutes of adrenaline.”
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:12 - Track - “War of the Chosen”
06:59 - Track - “Metal and Steel"
OTHER TRACKS
00:09 - Track 11 - "Final Breath"
01:20 - Track 10 - "In Solitude"
SOUNDTRACK
The original scoundtrack to XCOM 2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN was released digitally in August 2017 and can be purchased at Amazon.com
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You can hear find out more and hear more music at TIM WYNN'S official site http://timwynn.net/
You can follow TIM WYNN on Twitter at @timwynn_
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Matthew Margeson is an American composer who has written and arranged music for some films including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It Ralph, Captain Phillips, Into The Woods, Eddie The Eagle, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children..
Matthew Margeson teams up with composer Henry Jackman, for the third time, to compose the original score for the spy-action-adventure-comedy, KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, the sequel to 2015’S KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE - both directed by Matthew Vaughn.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle brings a new adventure that will test the agents' strength and wits when their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. Kingsman: The Golden Circle opens in theaters September 22, 2017.
In this episode, MATTHEW MARGESON talks about how the theme for the principal villlain proved to be one of the most difficult scoring challenges and how director Matthew Vaughn challenged them to get 25 fiddlers and 18 guitarists into one room to record for the score.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
01:37 - Track - “Eggsy is Back”
07:22 - Track - “Poppy"
09:33 - Track - "Statesman"
11:13 - Track - "Tornado in the Trailer Park"
13:41 - Track - "The Kingsman Hoedown"
SOUNDTRACK
The original scoundtrack to KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE is scheduled for release in October 2017.
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Ryan Shore is a 2-time Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominated composer, songwriter and conductor for film, television, virtual reality, games, records and theatre. He was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer / Arranger / Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, where he worked with artists including Lady Gaga AND John Legend.
Shore has conducted orchestras around the world in recordings and concerts including The New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, The Czech Philharmonic, as well as conducting concerts for Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions and Soundtracks Live! featuring music from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Ryan Shore has over 60 composing credits including scores for: Julie's Greenroom (Netflix) Penn Zero: Part Time Hero (Disney Television Animation), SpyHunter (Warner Bros), The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay), Cabin Fever 2 (Lions Gate), The X Factor (FOX) and one of his most recent projects the 2017 animated series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (Lucasfilm).
Star Wars Forces of Destiny, a new animated micro-series celebrating some of Star Wars’ most beloved and inspirational characters, The highly-anticipated shorts, 2-3 minutes each, tell the untold stories that helped shape the destinies of Rey, Jyn Erso, Princess Leia, Sabine Wren, Padmé Amidala, Ahsoka Tano, and other Star Wars icons. The series premiered on Disney's Youtube channel on July 3, 2017.
In this episode, Ryan Shore talks through 4 of the episodes from the series detailing how he employed John Wiliams' original themes while composing from his own musical vocabulary. A note - while Ryan Shore comments on them, the original themes and motifs by John Williams are not included in these audio tracks. You can; however, find each of the full episodes in the show notes at the TheAnnotator.net.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:55 - Track - “Main Theme”
03:50 - Track - “BB-8 Bandits"
06:36 - Track - "The Padawan Path"
09:25 - Track - "The Imposter Inside"
11:36 - Track - "Bounty of Trouble"
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track - "Sands of Jakku”
01:49 - Track - “Beasts of Echo Base”
14:29 - Track - “The Stranger”
STAR WARS: FORCES OF DESTINY EPISODES
"BB-8 Bandits" - https://youtu.be/KPhiPd-EXCA
"The Padawan Path" - https://youtu.be/jTxJpEkR7CE
"The Imposter Inside" - https://youtu.be/xPS6Od-oxcc
"Bounty of Trouble" - https://youtu.be/OgNnBNvLB2Y
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Gareth Coker is a British composer for film, games, and commercials. Gareth has developed a compositional style focusing on memorable, melodically-driven themes and motifs, combined with unique, and unconventional soundscapes. He collaborated with Moon Studios on the acclaimed game Ori and the Blind Forest, released in March 2015. His original score for Ori has won several prestigious awards, including an Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award for Outstanding Music Composition, a SXSW Gaming Award for Excellence in Musical Score, and the Game Audio Network Guild’s Audio of the Year.
Gareth Coker has since written scores for Minecraft, has also contributed music to the independent games Primal Carnage, The Mean Greens, and inMomentum and in the realm of Virtual Reality has written the score for veteran developer Insomniac Games’ new title The Unspoken. One of Coker's other recent video game projects has been for the open-world video game, ARK Survival Evolved.
Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard in collaboration with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.
In this episode, Gareth Coker talks about the history of his ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED main theme and the track from the final boss fight in the game, entitled “Overseer.”
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:44 - Track - “Main Theme (Original)”
04:36 - Track - “Main Theme (Live)”
05:23 - Track - “Recap of the Main Theme (Original)"
06:11 - Track - “Recap of the Main Theme (Live)"
07:03 - Track - “The Overseer”
OTHER TRACKS
00:05 - Track - "Ascension”
01:39 - Track - “Creation”
THE ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED SOUNDTRACK
The original soundtrack for ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED releases on August 29 via digital and streaming outlets worldwide through Sumthing Else Music Works.
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Joel P West is a songwriter, film composer and front man of The Tree Ring and Flood Coats. Joel is known for his scores for SHORT TERM 12, GRANDMA, and I AM NOT A HIPSTER. Joel’s work is heavily inspired by the wilderness and the wide open spaces of North America.
His career spans over 10 years, with his original style being lent to the upcoming highly anticipated Destin Daniel Cretton film THE GLASS CASTLE including an original song titled ‘Summer Storm’, written and performed by Joel himself. This score, with Americana roots, is an exercise in storytelling through music..
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family, THE GLASS CASTLE is a remarkable story of unconditional love. Oscar® winner Brie Larson brings Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
In this episode of the THE ANNOTATOR, Joel P. West shares about the musical language he needed to create to cover a timespan of over 30 years in THE GLASS CASTLE. He also talks about his use of themes reflecting the different aspects of key relationships in the film instead of the characters themselves. He also shares why no electronics were employed in the instrumentation or effects processing. Finally he talks about how they employed his score to bridge several jumps in time within the film.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
01:44 - Track 1 - “Rich City Folk”
05:23 - Track 4 - “Real School”
07:01 - Track 6 - “It'll be an Adventure”
08:54 - Track 8 - “You Promised”
11:06 - Track 9 - “Maroon Wave”
13:46 - Track 11 - “Funeral”
15:26 - Track 14 - “Mountain Goat”
OTHER TRACKS
00:05 - Track 4 - "Real School”
17:43 - Track 9 - “Maroon Wave”
THE GLASS CASTLE SOUNDTRACK
No release information is currently available.
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American composer and multi-instrumentalist, JEREMY TURNER, is known for creating innovative and diverse music for the moving image and the stage. From composing award winning scores for films to a career as the Assistant Principal Cello of the Met Orchestra, he has established a unique regard for understanding and performing varying musical languages and styles. As a composer, his music has been nominated for an EMMY® Award, has won the International Documentary Association Award (Narco Cultura), the AICP Award for Google’s first television commercial (Parisian Love), and has been named in NPR Music’s Favorite Songs of the Year.
One of Jeremy Turner’s most recent projects has been composing and conducting the score to the Netflix original series Five Came Back, produced by Steven Spielberg and Scott Rudin.
Adapted from Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War,” and directed by Laurent Bouzereau, the three-part docuseries tells the extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five filmmakers who interrupted their successful careers to serve their country, risk their lives and bring the truth back to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. To guide viewers through the different personalities, interweaving chronologies and globe-trotting locales, the Five Came Back team turned to the voices of five modern cinematic masters: Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Greengrass and Lawrence Kasdan. Three-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep provides the narration for Five Came Back.
On this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Jeremy Turner talks about: the five motifs he wrote for each of the 5 central figures, how they evolve and change along with the experiences of the 5 directors and lastly how he used silence to give the moments of score even greater impact.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
03:32 - Track - “Prelude”
08:53 - Track - “Willie and Lester”
11:26 - Track - “Anne Frank”
13:00 - Track - “Wonderful”
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track - "Forgotten Man”
01:04 - Track - "Capra Goes to Washington”
01:48 - Track - “Euro Stevens"
17:18 - Track - "Isolationism"
FIVE CAME BACK SOUNDTRACK
No release information is currently available.
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CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ is a composer and producer for film, television, records, and Video Games. films credits include Box office hit comedies including The Boss, Horrible Bosses (1 &2), Think Like A Man (1 &2),, and Identity Thief, popular family comedies including Alvin and the Chipmunks and Hop. He’s scored television series including Supernatural, Galavant and Marvel’s Agent Carter and video games such as Mass Effect 3, Starhawk, Medal of Honor, and the James Bond: 007 series, Lennertz has also collaborated with music giants including Dave Grusin, RZA, members of Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction and THE Dave Matthews Band.
One of his most recent scoring projects is for Sony Pictures Animated film, SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE. This new take on the Smurfs film marks the first collaboration between Lennertz and the film’s director, Kelly Asbury. In addition to writing the score for the film, Lennertz co-wrote a song with Award-winning singer-songwriter KT Tunstall.
Smurfs: The Lost Village tells the story of Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty and their race through the Forbidden Forest; the gang must find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel. Embarking on a journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!
In this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Christopher Lennertz talks about how he worked with director Kelly Asbury to set the tone for this new Smurf creation, how he created “smurf flower horn” now 80’s Amblin movies influenced this film and score, and just what the purpose of his original song, “You will Always Find Me In Your Heart” , was in the film.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:05 - Track 1 - “Meet the Smurfs”
04:50 - Track 2 - “To the Village”
07:12 - Track 4 - “Gargamel's Lair”
09:00 - Track 13 - “Raft Chase”
11:54 - Track 23 - “The Truest Smurf of All”
17:27 - Track 25 - “Smurf Eating Flowers (Bonus Track)”
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track 7 - “Get Those Smurfs”
18:22 - Track 24 - "End Credits Suite”
20:32 - Track 1 - “Paris Can Wait″ (Paris Can Wait)
SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE SOUNDTRACK
Released by MADISON GATE RECORDS
Digital and CD - 25-track soundtrack was released on March 31, 2017
You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.
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NEAL ACREE is an award winning film, television and video game composer and conductor whose work includes the massively popular game franchises World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Revelation Online, shows like Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and over 30 feature films. A versatile and prolific composer with roots in classical, rock and electronic music, Acree's music has been recorded and performed by orchestras and choirs around the world, including the hit concert tour Video Games Live. His latest project is for the video game, REND
REND was developed by Frostkeep studios, which was founded by veteran game developers who met working on the original World of Warcraft. This hybrid survival game summons players to align with one of three factions before they’re dropped into a beautiful, but brutal fantasy world where they must strategically team up with other players and friends to battle enemy creatures and rival factions in a relentless, competitive race towards ascension.
In this episode, Neal Acree talks about his desire for his original score for REND to tell the story starting from a warrior’s funeral to the player's ascension to a higher plane of existence in the afterlife. He shares about his use of vocals and old Norse poetry and discusses how instrumentation choices, which spanned the globe, produced the score's raw and unrefined edge as well as a sense of history. Finally, Acree shares about how many of the instrumentalists on Rend had never performed on a video game score before.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:12 - Track - “Main Theme” 05:22 - Track - “Night” 07:20 - Track - “Day 1” 08:53 - Track - “Day 2” 10:35 - Track - “Cave” 12:19 - Track - “The Reckoning”
OTHER TRACKS
00:07 - Track - “Rend Loop” 01:20 - Track - “Trailer” 14:23 - Track - “Day 2″ 15:27 - Track - “To the Village” (Smurfs: The Lost Village)
REND SOUNDTRACK
No release information is currently available.
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OLIVIER DERIVIERE has been hailed by MTV as “Game music’s eclectic daredevil”, He has won an IFMCA and CUE AWARD for his work on the video game REMEMBER ME and is widely acclaimed for both his composition and innovative approaches to connecting music with the game experience. Among his more recent original scores include video games such as ASSASSIN’S CREED IV: FREEDOM CRY and SUPERNOVA. Derivière often blends traditional musical elements with unorthodox sound techniques in pursuit of creating an authentic score that fully immerses the player in the gameplay and story.
Olivier Deriviere’s most recent project is the video game, GET EVEN - a psychological thriller by Polish video game developers The Farm 51. In the game, players take the role of Cole Black who awakens in an old abandoned asylum, his sole memory is the attempted rescue of a teenage girl with a bomb strapped to her chest, the rest of his memories wiped away. Players will explore an eerie and destitute world on a mission to discover the truth behind his traumatic memory. GET EVEN’s twisted tale will have players questioning their perceptions of reality and the true meaning of justice as they unravel the mystery of how Cole ended up in the asylum and the fate of that teenage girl.
In this episode, composer OLIVIER DERIVIERE while sharing some of the story points of the game, delivers detailed insights from four tracks of his original score to GET EVEN. He discusses some of his key motifs and how the reflection of important emotional beats found in the narrative are expressed within his score. He also talks about some of the technology and techniques employed to blend sound effect into his music.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:00 - Track 1 - “Consequences” 06:19 - Track 8 - “Homicide Case” 09:58 - Track 18 - “Broken Promise” 13:01 - Track 5 - “Reascending the Tower”
OTHER TRACKS
00:00 - Track 16 - “For Her” 18:46 - Track 17 - “Making Queries”
GET EVEN SOUNDTRACK
Released by AMEO PUBLISHING. Digital - 19-track, deluxe edition was released on May 26, 2017
You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.
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In this episode, composer DANIEL PEMBERTON shares 5 tracks from his KING ARTHUR SCORE and talks about researching medieval instruments long before starting any of his writing and how he visiting renaissance fairs resulted in finding several unique instruments to employ in his score. Lastly, he talks about the challenge of writing a Medieval yet contemporary score and how KING ARTHUR brought him to the point of heavy breathing and whiskey enabled vocalizations.
ANNOTATED TRACKS
02:29 -Track 2 - “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” 05:23 -Track 3 - “Growing Up in Londimium” 08:05 -Track 4 - “Jackeye’s Tale” 11:36 - Track 12 - “The Born King” 14:25 - Track 26 - “The Devil & the Huntsmen”
OTHER TRACKS
00:14 - “Seasoned Oak” 18:46 - “Journey to the Caves”
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD SOUNDTRACK
Released by WATER TOWER MUSIC. Digital - 30-track, deluxe edition was released on May 5, 2017 CD - 26-track edition released on May 19, 2017.
You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.
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