Credibility — the final frontier. Video game music is now attracting respectable crowds of attentive concert-goers to live performances throughout North America and the world. Composer Tommy Tallarico, a veteran of 25 years, is currently cranking trax in Cologne, Germany, with the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra. As part of his Video Games Live endeavor, which has dates […]
Although they were making a movie about video games, when it came to Pixels, composer Henry Jackman and director Chris Columbus wanted to steer away from the 8-bit sound one associates with Super Mario style boing-boing, opting instead for a symphonic score. What were they thinking? As revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “we discovered early on […]
Trevor Morris has signed to compose music for Babak Najafi’s political thriller London Has Fallen, a due in January 2016 from Focus Features. Morris’ previous work includes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Immortals and Olympus Has Fallen. He is represented by Chris Gutch at the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency.
Ludomusicology – the study of music as it applies in videogames. I’ll bet you didn’t know it exists! Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) host Emily Reese is crazy about classical music and video game scores, and her fascinating interview with ludomusicologist Ryan Thompson explores the music of “Final Fantasy 6.” “The opera sequence itself kind of sums up, […]
Excellent survey of music in video games, by Wendy Parker for Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE.
The Phillip Glass-Marco Beltrami score for Josh Trank’s The Fantastic Four is available for streaming on Spotify. The film hits theaters this weekend from 20th Century Fox. “What we were trying to achieve musically was the spirit of curiosity and innocence,” Beltrami told TheFilmStage.com. “We were inspired by the film’s scientific exploration from the point of […]
Will Trent Reznor’s next project be David Fincher’s Strangers, a remake of the Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train? That was the provocative question posed by consequencesofsound.net back in January. Six months later, the Magic 8 Ball is tilting toward yes! Although Reznor’s name hasn’t been formally attached to the project, given his history of successful […]
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