{"id":8455,"date":"2014-04-11T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:22:07","slug":"podcast-interview-with-composer-ronen-landa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8455","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Interview with Composer Ronen Landa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RonenLanda_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8457\" alt=\"RonenLanda_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RonenLanda_pic-202x300.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>In early February, composer &amp; musician Ronen Landa spoke to KQEK.com about his latest scores: the comedy <strong>Cavemen<\/strong> (2013), and the horror film <strong>Home<\/strong> (2014), his second feature film score (after <strong>The Pact<\/strong>) for director Nicholas McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Landa\u2019s skills extend to scoring comedies, dramas, documentaries, and horror, but one of his major influences remains Ennio Morricone, whose work with the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4410\" target=\"_blank\">Gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza<\/a> inspired the more experimental aspcts of <strong>Home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Songs and two score cues from <strong>Cavemen<\/strong> are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/lakeshorerecords.tumblr.com\/post\/77920848006\/cavemen-full-soundtrack-details\" target=\"_blank\">Lakeshore Records<\/a>, whereas Landa\u2019s <strong>Home<\/strong> will be released later this year. His prior score for director McCarthy<strong>, The Pact<\/strong>, is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/moviescoremedia.com\/screamworks\/2012\/06\/12\/the-pact-ronen-landa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moviescore Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast \u2013 the first of several slated for publication this month \u2013 is the first to appear in two forms: as an audio-only podcast, and as a video-enhanced podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The full podcast with visuals (480p) is available on KQEK.com\u2019s YouTube channel:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nfG4ONDcHo\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those wanting just the audio can hear the podcast at Libsyn:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2776661\/height\/315\/width\/560\/theme\/legacy\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the overhaul is tied to the revamped KQEK.com \u2013 new logo, new design \u2013 and my own interest in combining a specific \u2018video look\u2019 to both the site and other endeavors which includes aspects of vintage and digital gear. This includes colours (pastel tube colours, hot \/ oversaturated colours typical of analogue gear), aberrations (grain, noise, digital blocks &amp; blobs), and visual representation of the actual gear (like this site &#8211; the background texture isn\u2019t a bird\u2019s eye view of apartment buildings, but the front face of a VHS tape, tipped vertical).<\/p>\n<p>This \u2018look\u2019 is also something I\u2019ve explored in some recent film work (shorts, tests, and extracts) as well as my prior background &amp; experience in transferring obsolete analogue formats to digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that approach is evident in the new Intro\u00a0 + Outro Titles that bookend the latest podcast; you\u2019ll hear the audio in the aural podcast, but will see the matching images in the YouTube version.<\/p>\n<p>Those wanting to see cleaner 720p versions should check out my blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=1220\" target=\"_blank\">Big Head Amusements<\/a>, which also contains links to HD extracts of the Intro \/ Outro sections, plus the fuzzy blue backgrounds that appear whenever a small section of a music cue is heard. I\u2019ve also written a short making-of account for the titles, with some snapshots of the timeline within Adobe Premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent podcasts will feature some new background visuals, and I\u2019ll also provide further info on the audio editing services I provide (especially transferring &amp; editing archival audio interviews, and streamlining those discussions into a tight Q&amp;A).<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: a review of Twilight Time\u2019s gorgeous Blu-ray edition of <strong>All the King\u2019s Men<\/strong> (1949), and\u00a0 Ryan Darst&#8217;s <strong>Dreamworld<\/strong> (2012) from Sneak Attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film composer Ronen Landa discusses Home (2014), his latest horror score for director Nicholas McCarthy + links to the making-of details of KQEK.com&#8217;s new Podcasting Intro \/ Outro Titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[1356,2562,2563,2645,2646,2649,2643,2644,2648,2647],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Home.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2cn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8466,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions\/8466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}