I recently chatted with experimental composer Maya Shenfeld about her first major foray into film scoring: the Oscar shortlisted documentary The Flagmakers. Fresh off of her critically acclaimed debut album, In Free Fall (which experiments through electroacoustic arrangements), Maya’s score […]
Composer Zak Engel joins me to kick off 2023, and end my brief interview hiatus. We primarily chat about his score for the mind-bending sci-fi thriller Ultrasound, which released a couple of years ago but for which Zak’s score has […]
I know, it’s already mid-January and yet this series is only up to September. It’s painful to be trapped in the past… The upside is that September saw some great scores, including the fantastic intimate-medieval score to Medieval from Philip […]
Here we are at the end of another fantastic year for film music. Of course, there were many scores that earned my affection in 2022—Michael Giacchino’s best-in-blockbuster-class The Batman, the jazz wizardry of Justin Hurwitz’s Babylon, Arnoud Rebotini’s pulse-pounding Dark […]