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GAME
Game and anime music isn’t as niche as you’d think
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Think screen music is niche? Perhaps something reserved for new audiences, or performed…
Meet the legendary composers behind this surrealist game score, inspired by Kafka
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Through Schoenberg, Herrmann, and a touch of the surreal, composers Mikolai Stroinski (The…
“To be a Hollywood composer, you need to be a powerful entrepreneur”
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA There aren’t many composers who fluidly work between video games and Hollywood, but…
TV
Anne Nikitin discusses her dreamy, atmospheric Little Birds score
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Little Birds is dripping with the sensuality and splendour of decades past. The…
ANNOUNCED: These are the winners of the 2020 Screen Music Awards
CONTENT COURTESY APRA AMCOS For the first time in its history, the 2020 Screen Music Awards was held…
You Can’t Ask That: Q&A with screen composer Andrew Sampford
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “How do you swear in sign language?” “Did you drink metho?” “Were you…
FILM
The Dig composer talks STEM, music theatre, and film score debut
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE It’s pretty special when your compose your first feature film and it’s released…
How Kevin Kiner composes “bigger than life” Star Wars soundtracks
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA If you’ve been paying attention to Star Wars over the past decade, you’d know the…
Nainita Desai composes the experience of living with autism for The Reason I Jump
BY JESSIE WANG Every year in April, Autism Acceptance Month (previously Autism Awareness Month) is celebrated…
