Tag: Interviews
Ways into game scoring: How Atlas Plug kick-started Tom Salta’s career
Celldweller and Atlas Plug recently teamed up to score Killer Instinct: Season 3. A good reason to let the artist behind Atlas Plug, MTV VMA nominated composer Tom Salta, explain to you...
‘Take This Life’: Tom Salta about the creation of Halo’s first ever pop song
I bet many of you have played video games since you were little and on any device you could get your hands on. Now think of any video game series that...
Composer Tom Salta about scoring Halo: The Fall of Reach
Since Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001 the Halo video game series has become one of the best known franchises of all time. For everyone not being too familiar with...
Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) about scoring Black Mass
Black Mass was one of my most anticipated movies in 2015. Directed by Scott Cooper it thematises the true story of James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger who, for more than a decade,...
Introducing young composer Chris A. Gabriel
Sometimes when you watch a bunch of trailers these days you get the feeling that everything in the cinematic world revolves around darkness and about people trying to fight it or getting...
BAFTA winner Jason Graves: Tips for young composers
I recently got the chance to speak with 2-time BAFTA award winning composer Jason Graves about his score for Until Dawn. Apart from many details about how he tackled a game...
Jason Graves about the music and sounds in ‘Until Dawn’
The theory of the so-called butterfly effect has been thematised in several very different movies already. No matter if Iñárritu’s ‘Babel’, Tykwer’s and the Wachowski’s ‘Cloud Atlas’ or Bress’s and Gruber’s ‘The Butterfly Effect’;...
Composer Austin Wintory about scoring Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
Shortly before he won Best Score in the Video Game category at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards I got the chance to talk with composer Austin Wintory about his score...
Introducing young composer Jeremy Nathan Tisser
Jeremy Nathan Tisser is a name to remember. Here’s a first reason: Following his five Global Music Awards, young composer Jeremy Nathan Tisser recently won at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in the...
Patrick Doyle: A Lifetime of Achievement
Continuing on from my interview with the great Alan Silvestri, I had another exciting opportunity to interview another great of the Film Music world; Scottish Composer Patrick Doyle. As with...
Composer Dan Romer about scoring Beasts of No Nation
As mentioned in a previous post, I was very excited when I heard about Netflix’s first feature film production, Beasts of No Nation. So when I was offered the chance...
Alan Silvestri: The Man Who Needs No Introduction
A few days ago, I arrived in Gent, Belgium for the 2015 World Soundtrack Awards and Concert, as part of the Film Fest Gent, that was celebrating the music of...