An Interview with Chat Pile
There are a few perks to running every aspect of this site and podcast, the biggest being picking who I want to interview (and avoiding whomever I don’t). Part of that, sometimes, is using film music as an excuse to […]
An Interview with Jesper Kyd
Although this site and podcast are called “The Film Scorer”, every so often it’s nice to chat with someone who does significant work in another medium instead. Today, that someone is Jesper Kyd (Hitman, Assassin’s Creed). Jesper has been scoring […]
Extratextual Meaning and Risk in Film Music
Licensed music in film and tv can often be used because it sounds good, fitting the scene’s tone or style, or maybe just because it works. But I was recently reading an article that discussed how a “pop song” (or […]