Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . With the 2006 release of Columbia’s remake of the underrated 1979 cult film, When a Stranger Calls, composer James Michael Dooley has taken another step in furthering a solo career, amid his continuing involvement in high profile projects with Hans Zimmer, such as the recent film adaptation of The […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Even if you’ve only seen the Heroes pilot, it would be hard not to be moved by the refreshing scoring approach by series composers Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. Their music is sometimes ethereal, with light touches of exotic sounds from an eclectic collection of ethnic instruments, or […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Composer Elia Cmiral talks about his latest horror score, Pulse, which fuses electronic and modern orchestral writing. Though best-known for his popular scores for Apartment Zero and Ronin, Cmiral’s horror and suspense work includes Bones, Stigmata, They, and Wrong Turn. . . Mark R. Hasan : Pulse is a remake of the Japanese film Kairo/Pulse (2001). […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Although Elia Cmiral continues to score a diverse mix of films – his recent work include Bluebeard for director Kevin Connor, and While the Children Sleep for Russell Mulcahy – the composer has been very busy writing distinctive, chilling music for several horror films. Alongside career highpoints such as Wrong […]
Brandon Hocura discusses composing an original score for Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Water Magician / Taki no shiraito (1933), which he performed with his group VOWLS at the Shinsedai Cinema Festival…
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