With Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, composer Joe Kraemer becomes the fourth to reinvent the classic Lalo Schifrin score, which NPR describes as “a 1960s TV theme song that’s stayed permanently young.” Hear the fascinating backstory in this interview entitled “Four Composers, One (Nearly) Impossible Mission,” in which All Things Considered’s Terry Gross talks to […]
USA Today spotlights seven pop artists making waves in commercials this summer: Halsey’s cover version of Tear For Fears’ Mad World for Taco Bell’s Bacon Club Chalupa; Ellipahant on Apple’s iPhone spot, which uses the hook of her Too Original (sans vocals); electronic sounds from from U.K. artist Sophie’s Lemonade/Hard for McDonald’s Lemonades; Judah & the Lion’s banjo-strumming Kickin’ Da Leaves […]
Artist and composer Zoe Keating talks with Forbes about bitcoin and bitchain, which she feels has the potential to revolutionize how music is monetized. Also music streaming and being an invited guest at Richard Branson’s exclusive Blockchain Summit, exploring digital currency. Talking to Hypebot, the Canadian-born, San Francisco-based cellist and composer rather surprisingly shares that among her […]
German composer Reinhold Heil, whose work has been featured on the big screen in films including Cloud Atlas, The Killer Elite and I, Frankenstein, spoke to KCPP‘s Michelle Lanz for The Frame about composing for eight upcoming episodes of The Sundance Channel’s critically acclaimed spy series, “Deutschland 83.” Heil said that while he’s not been a big […]
Games scores differ from film soundtracks “in that they’re less linear and defined, and more responsive and reactive to the player’s moves. The music has to match emotions, conveying whether the character is happy or sad, being chased or scared, rather than the setting.” So says game composer Tommy Tallarico, profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald to […]
Excellent survey of music in video games, by Wendy Parker for Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE.
