Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . Since 1989, Cliff Martinez has scored almost 30 feature films, but he’s best known for scoring two of director Steven Soderbergh’s best works: the visceral crime epic Traffic (2000), and the composer’s masterwork, Solaris (2002), which ranks as one of the finest sci-fi scores in the last […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles . Drive Crazy is Michael Wandmacher’s latest film score for director Patrick Lussier (after My Bloody Valentine 3D), but it’s vastly different compared to his prior work in the horror realm. Piranha 3D (2010) is an orchestral & electronic gnashing of sounds meant to accent the feeding […]
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers . The following is an unpublished interview from 2009 & 2010 with composer Jeff Grace discussing his scores for Glenn McQuaid’s I Sell the Dead and Ti West’s The House of the Devil. . . Mark R. Hasan: I Sell The Dead began as a short film, right? […]
Even if a composer deliberately moves between genres to test the mind in scoring comedy, romance, action, horror, and sci-fi, it’s still a struggle to treat each project as unique – and that includes developing a sound that doesn’t recall prior works. There’s personal style, and then there’s old habits that can sometimes sneak into the writing process, and affect the development of themes, motifs, and the overall score..
Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers Having scored Seasons 2 and 3 of Durham County, composer Peter Chapman isn’t a newcomer anymore, but his music is a fresh mix of the abstract, the impressionistic, the melodic, and the weird. Chapman took over the scoring chores for Season 2, basing his score around the main […]
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