Could your favourite film score have been composed by your local councillor?
BY LIAM HEITMANN-RYCE Artists can undergo an entire evolutionary cycle of job roles throughout the course of their film career, in front of and behind […]
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Howard Shore explains how he composes his fantasy worlds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN The Lost Prince is a film for anyone who has ever been a parent or a child. The French […]
“Don’t allow the industry to put you in a box” says composer-producer James Edward Barker
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Writer, producer, or composer? James Edward Barker didn’t settle for just one of these career paths. Rather than […]
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 […]
Herdís Stefánsdóttir scored a film while pregnant and says it was “awesome!”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In her last trimester of pregnancy, Herdís Stefánsdóttir was exhausted. She was having trouble walking. She was feeling emotional. Oh, and she […]
Jacqueline Collyer composes a fantasy series (while she’s still at uni)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Think you have to graduate before you can gain industry experience? Jacqueline Collyer would disagree. This emerging Tasmanian composer has teamed up […]
Ilan Eshkeri on composing Nureyev’s biopic with Ralph Fiennes
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In 1961, Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev became the first artist during the Cold War to defect to the West. In The […]
A chat with Assassination Nation film composer Ian Hultquist
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A computer hack leaks everyone’s deepest secrets. A city is driven to insanity. And it all comes together as a dark […]
Film scoring in 5 steps with Nicholas Marks
BY NICHOLAS MARKS Melbourne composer Nicholas Marks studied at Monash and has had his film scores appear at Tropfest, the Kah Bang International Film Festival, […]