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JOHN FRIZZELL (2007, Part B)

JOHN FRIZZELL (2007, Part B)

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Following the completion of the horror film Stay Alive, John Frizzell shifted from that score’s more experimental,aleatoric style to a fusion of more accessible action-suspense music for Primeval. Like his prior scores, however, nothing’s conventional in John Frizzell’s latest score, which incorporates traditional African music supervised & […]

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JOHN FRIZZELL (2010)

JOHN FRIZZELL (2010)

October 20, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . For his feature film directorial debut, Scott Stewart hired John Frizzell to compose the music for Legion (2010), and while it’s ostensibly a theological thriller, the music goes against the grain and contains few of the familiar stylistic approaches of the sub-genre. There are chorales and a […]

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JAMES MICHAEL DOOLEY

JAMES MICHAEL DOOLEY

October 20, 2010 | By

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 […]

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LISA COLEMAN and WENDY MELVOIN

LISA COLEMAN and WENDY MELVOIN

October 20, 2010 | By

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 […]

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ELIA CMIRAL (2006)

ELIA CMIRAL (2006)

October 20, 2010 | By

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). […]

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