Daniel Schweiger – Film Music Institute

09Apr2021

Interview with Trevor Gureckis

By Daniel Schweiger
Film Music Magazine (Current), Scoring Sessions
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Going from sonic sci-fi structure to Lord of the Flies frenzy in space alongside the “Voyagers”

12Mar2021

Interview with Electric Youth and Pilotpriest

By Daniel Schweiger
Film Music Magazine (Current), Industry Spotlight
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The 80’s ghost in the synth machine has never been more alive than in a soundtrack explosion exhumed from the likes of Charles Bernstein’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” John Carpenter and Alan Howarth’s “Prince of Darkness” and Michel Rubini’s “Manhunter.” It’s a tone that can be both rhythmically aggressive and ethereally haunting, particularly when […]

05Mar2021

Interview with Jermaine Stegall

A new scoring prince gets his Hollywood coronation by taking Zamunda travel arrangements to a vibrantly funny new musical future

01Mar2021

MARCH SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS

By Daniel Schweiger
CD Reviews, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Check into the creative terror of “Psycho III” and “Willy’s Wonderland” among such notable soundtracks as “Banning,” “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Below Zero,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Mortal,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and many more!

26Feb2021

Interview with Raphael Reed

Creating a rhythmic tapestry for the “Crisis” of opiate abuse

15Feb2021

Interview with Tom Hodge

Creating a powerful fight for freedom of musical body and soul

12Feb2021

Interview with Emile Mosseri

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Of the new crop of composers to spring from an indie sensibility and all of the fertile, innovative ideas that come with it, perhaps no musician has captured the idea of what it is to find an outsider’s American measure of success than Emile Mosseri. Hailing from Egyptian roots, Mosseri has poetically captured themes of […]

08Jan2021

Interview with Howard Shore

Constructing the powerful “Pieces of a Woman”

18Dec2020

Interview with Branford Marsalis

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current), Uncategorized
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There’s often no pressure cooker like a recording studio where the clock is running, and the egos are flaring. Add to that the rage of racial injustice and the diva behavior of an ego that’s earned and it’s a session ready for an eruption. The tortuous, yet tuneful process of getting that song sung opens […]

15Dec2020

THE BEST SCORES OF 2020

By Daniel Schweiger
CD Reviews
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“The Queen’s Gambit” makes the winning move on a notable playing field

24Nov2020

Interview with Mondo Boys

Putting a hip hit out on Santa Claus with “Fatman”

15Nov2020

Interview with Dara Taylor

Putting hypnotic structure to criminal chaos with “Echo Boomers”

23Oct2020

Interview with Carlos Rafael Rivera

Making the winning melodic moves with “The Queen’s Gambit”

06Oct2020

Interview with Jim Williams

By Daniel Schweiger
October 6, 2020
Scoring Sessions
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Scoring inside the lethal headspace of the “Possessor”

28Sep2020

Interview with Marc Streitenfeld

By Daniel Schweiger
September 28, 2020
Composer Profile
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Continuing to explore alien worlds and the nature of android parenting in “Raised by Wolves”

22Sep2020

Interview with Will Bates

By Daniel Schweiger
September 22, 2020
Industry Spotlight
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Piloting an alternative musical route to Mars while staying on earth with “Away”

18Sep2020

Interview with Nate Wonder and Roman Gianarthur Irvin

By Daniel Schweiger
September 18, 2020
Scoring Sessions
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Two brothers score with old school to blow up the white supremacist “Antebellum”

21Aug2020

Interview with David Buckley

By Daniel Schweiger
August 21, 2020
Composer Profile
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Veering from the sonic insanity of “Unhinged” to the emotional apocalypse at “Greenland”

07Aug2020

Interview with Michael Yezerski

By Daniel Schweiger
August 7, 2020
Scoring Sessions
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Paying “The Tax Collector’s” dark crime dues

18Jun2020

Soundtrack Picks: BAD EDUCATION is the top soundtrack to own for JUNE, 2020

By Daniel Schweiger
June 18, 2020
CD Reviews
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Also worth picking up: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, DA 5 BLOODS, DEATH RACE 2000, FAR AND AWAY, LEGENDS OF THE FALL, THE STORY OF O2, VILLAIN, WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS, WESTWORLD SEASON 3 and many more!

15Jun2020