Over at GameSpot, Sophia Tong has a great interview up with veteran game composer Chris Huelsbeck:
Hop on over to the GameSpot page for a selection of Chris’ music.
Chris Huelsbeck has been composing for ages – check out his now-classic theme for Turrican 2 for the Commodore Amiga below:
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There’s a new feature up on The SoundWorks Collection, this time on the sound and music of Angry Birds:
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I found this great read on composing for an animated series in an old copy of Sound on Sound magazine – and lo and behold, it’s available online as well. Check it out:
Television animation has come a long way since the golden age of Bugs and Woody. There has been a recent explosion of production companies and animation studios working around the world, cranking out quality cartoons for a thriving, healthy market. All these cartoons need music and if you’re the composer who gets the call, there are a few things you need to know.
Composing for a cartoon series has its own unique set of challenges that differentiate it from live-action scoring. Having just wrapped up scoring 52 episodes of a new series called SuperNormal, I’d like to take you through the process so that you’ll know what to expect and how to avoid the potential pitfalls that are common when writing music for a cartoon.
Check out the full article on cartoon composing here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact music,television sound cartoon music, composer, composing, David Ricard, SuperNormal, television music — Over at Film Music Magazine, Daniel Schweiger has a great interview up with composer Alan Silvestri, where he discusses his recent score for Captain America and much more.
Best of all, Silvestri has captured the stuff of legend with CAPTAIN AMERICA, creating the kind of soaring, determined heroism that great comic book-to-screen icons are made of. It’s enough to make any admirer of Steve Rogers stand up and give the pledge for God and Country, not to mention any film music fan wants to see a composer fighting the good fight to continue on the worthy tradition of writing epic melody and themes for today’s action pictures.
Read the full interview with Alan Silvestri here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact film sound Alan Silvestri interview, back to the future, captain america music, composer, score — Tying in with the premiere of ‘Super 8‘, composer Michael Giacchino has released five cues from the film for free! These can also be used by budding film makers in productions under a Creative Commons license. Check out and download the tracks below:
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact film sound composer, cues, download, Michael Giacchino, music, score, super 8 — Gamespot has an interview up with Fable III composer Russell Shaw.
GS: What were some of the challenges working on the Fable series?
RS: Well, the Fable universe is absolutely huge. So many musical styles to cater for, and yet if I veer off what many consider to be the “correct” Fable path, it’s considered blasphemy by the Fable community fan base. Each new release of the Fable series requires a degree of freshness from the previous one, and coming up with new ideas is a challenge. Also, the sheer scale of each game means I have to compose a huge amount of material to cover it all without it becoming tedious or repetitive.
Read the full interview here.
Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact game audio composer, fable 3, fable iii, music, russell shaw — Daniel Schweiger delivers the goods once again in this latest installment of the Film Music Magazine ‘On The Score’ interview series. Hear the audio interview below, where Hans Zimmer discusses the music for Kung Fu Panda 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean 4.
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Posted by Asbjoern Andersen, Epic Sound - Contact film sound,music composer, hans zimmer, interview, john powell, kung fu panda 2, music, pirates of the caribbean 4, score — I came across this interview with Slumdog Millionaire – and, most recently, 127 Hours – composer A. R. Rahman over at Film Music Magazine. Check it out below.
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