Interview with Johan Johannson
Composing in alien tongues for “Arrival”
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04Nov2016
14Sep2016
Interview with Simon Franglen
Teaming with, then resurrecting James Horner for a final, furious round-up of western heroism to co-score “The Magnificent Seven”
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26Jul2016
30Jun2016
Interview with Nathan Whitehead
A composer who continues to vote for The Purge on “Election Night”
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03May2016
Interview with Clint Mansell
The composer of “Pi,” “Requiem for a Dream” and “Black Swan” makes his most melodically enticing descent into madness with “High-Rise”
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06Apr2016
02Mar2016
Interview with Paul Hepker and Mark Kilian
Two South African composers see in tragic synchronicity for “Eye in the Sky”
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26Jan2016
Interview with Stephen Raynor- Endelman
Making the winning play from greed to inspiration with “Madoff” and “Greater”
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10Dec2015
The Best Scores of 2015
“IN THE HEART OF THE SEA” makes the biggest wave of this year’s exceptionally stylistic scores
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18Nov2015
Interview with Craig Armstrong
No one puts Igor in a corner when rampaging melodic bromance strikes the creation of “Victor Frankenstein”
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01Oct2015
25Aug2015
Interview with Heather McIntosh
Capturing the post-apocalyptic love triangle of “Z for Zachariah”
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07Jul2015
Interview with Heitor Pereira
Leaving Gru to give the “Minions” an energetic solo scoring act
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02Jun2015
Interview with David Shire
A noted film and TV composer once again returns to his Broadway-bound roots with the pan-Pacific, cross-cultural musical “Waterfall”
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21Apr2015
Interview with Rob Simonsen
Finding the heavenly sound of immortality with “The Age of Adaline”
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04Mar2015
Interview with Mark Adler
Musically documenting the doubting apocalypse of “Merchants’” comedic circus of lies
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30Dec2014
Interview with Alex Ebert
An alternative composer conveys the trance of ambition that marks “A Most Violent Year”
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04Nov2014
Interview with Johann Johannsson
An Icelandic experimentalist finds a film music “Theory of Everything.”
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01Oct2014
Interview with Gustavo Dudamel
A conductor famed for his passion now creates his own equally dramatic score with the nationalistic charge of “The Liberator”
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06Aug2014
Interview with Brian Tyler
One of Hollywood’s hardest working composers blasts away with the August triple threat of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Expendables 3” and “Into the Storm”
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24Jun2014
Interview with Joseph Trapanese
An “alt. sci-fi” composer phones found footage home with “Earth to Echo”
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21May2014
Interview with Joel McNeely
The composer resurrects his major studio career with “A Million Ways to Die in the West” as he goes gunning with Seth MacFarlane to bring back a classic Hollywood scoring sound
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01Apr2014
Interview with Dustin O’Halloran
A composer who sees in colors hears a silently anguished musical relationship of “Breathe In”
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10Feb2014
Interview with Edwin Wendler
A composer with a very particular set of skills helps John Ottman bring “Non-Stop” in for a safe score landing
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21Jan2014
Interview with Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau
A comedy scoring team is funny without dying when it comes to the songs spoofs and straight-faced scoring of “Anchorman 2” and the Funny or Die gang
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06Nov2013
Interview with Mark Orton
The wearer of a rurally eccentric Tin Hat travels on the oddball, and heartfelt road to “Nebraska”
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08Oct2013
Interview with Lorne Balfe
A prolific team player declares his own distinctively versatile voice between hunting the enigmatic author “Salinger,” stalking a serial killer across “The Frozen Ground” and taking a spiritual videogame leap “Beyond Two Souls”
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04Sep2013
Interview with Laurent Eyquem
A French composer hears his own personal struggles as he scores the story of South Africa’s most controversially iconic woman
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09Jul2013
Interview with Frederik Wiedmann
A young composer becomes the newest super-scoring member of DC animation’s Justice League
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30May2013
Interview with Graham Reynolds
Richard Linklater’s favorite Austin composer plays his relationship worldview for the talk “Before Midnight”
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