Anne-Kathrin Dern is the latest guest on The Film Scorer Podcast! You might be most familiar with Anne’s lush, thematically-rich traditional orchestral scoring on a number of family and animation films, but she’s started to slowly move into more hybrid […]
As far as I can tell, the upcoming Academy Awards have avoided last year’s widely reviled gaffe of putting certain “technical” awards in a secondary class. It’s hard to call this progress, as we’re just returning to the status quo, […]
Tim Hecker, one of the leading voices in experimental electronic music (sometimes referred to as “ambient”) joins The Film Scorer Podcast! Tim and I primarily talk about his score to the new film Infinity Pool, a psychedelic, nasty ride with […]
Three-time Oscar nominated composer Carter Burwell joins The Film Scorer Podcast! We primarily talk about his latest score, which also happened to land him his third Oscar nomination (as well as another BAFTA nom, among others), The Banshees of Inisherin! […]
October saw the release of two Oscar and BAFTA nominated scores, The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front, with fairy tale melancholy and the blaring fear of war, respectively, as well as a number of other […]
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 […]
To finish up 2022, I attempt to unravel the new murder mystery Glass Onion, with the help of its composer, Nathan Johnson (Knives Out, Looper). Not surprisingly, then, Nathan and I jump into his big, orchestral score, including revisiting themes […]
It’s rare these days to have film score releases contain dialogue excerpts. The rarity shouldn’t be a surprise – after all, presumably most people are listening in solely for the music. Sometimes the combination leaves ample room for the music […]
Pleased to have Academy Award nominated composer Volker Bertelmann join the show! Volker is fresh off of scoring the new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, a new bleak, harrowing anti-war version of the classic novel. We chat […]
The latest guest on The Film Scorer Podcast is French composer Raphaelle Thibaut! Raphaelle (or simply Raph) has been primarily working in documentaries lately, scoring projects such as Secrets of the Whales, Introducing, Selma Blair, and Mama’s Boy, the last […]