How concertmaster Natalie Chee navigates leadership and performance roles in the orchestra
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON From working memory to maths and creativity, music-making can stimulate an enormous amount of the brain’s resources — and it can feel […]
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An entirely casual chat with Stranger Things composers Kyle and Michael
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH LEVEL AND GAIN You may not have heard of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, but you would undoubtedly know their music. The […]
How Pedro Bromfman composed Far Cry 6
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE Pedro Bromfman is not a gamer. Sure, as a kid he played a bit of Nintendo and Atari. But […]
Meet the legendary composers behind this surrealist game score, inspired by Kafka
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Through Schoenberg, Herrmann, and a touch of the surreal, composers Mikolai Stroinski (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt) and Garry […]
Halo and Wolfenstein games composer talks ’80s synths and influences
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Tom Salta is an experienced video game composer with the ability to jump between starkly different game and […]
Mai Fujisawa is “passionate about bringing various cultures together”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN If you think of the best-loved cinematic franchises of all time, the worlds of Studio […]
Fallout composer Inon Zur reveals his scoring techniques for open-world games
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON (CUTCOMMON’S GLOBAL EDITOR) FOR LEVEL AND GAIN As an Emmy Award-winning composer and the musical mind behind some of gaming’s most iconic […]
Bayonetta composer Takahiro Izutani tells us how the game music industry has evolved
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN, WITH TRANSLATION BY ALEXANDER ANIEL OF BRAVE WAVE PRODUCTIONS Takahiro Izutani has experienced it all in the world of […]
Das Boot composer crafts a soundworld of war and “self-proclaimed heroism”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES EDITOR It’s been close to four decades since Oscar-nominated film Das Boot was released to the world. The 1981 film […]
LIVE REVIEW // Lotte Betts-Dean and Van Diemen’s Band @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES EDITOR My Heart Swims in BloodVan Diemen’s Band with Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)Dark MofoHobart Town Hall, 22 June Hidden within the […]