FILM
How to compose a jump scare, and other scary tales
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKESomething doesn’t feel right. Your heartbeat quickens, and your muscles tense. You raise your…
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FILM
TV
Caitlin Yeo on scoring “bold, inventive, brave” ABC series Wakefield
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKEAustralian composer Caitlin Yeo has been nominated for two 2021 APRA AGSC Screen Music…
FILM
George Kallis composes “irrepressible passion” in After We Fell
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Tessa and Hardin’s passionate love story has taken the world by storm. The…
GAME
How Pedro Bromfman composed Far Cry 6
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKEPedro Bromfman is not a gamer. Sure, as a kid he…
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…
FILM
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…
FILM
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…
DOCO
The Social Dilemma: A chat with composer Mark Crawford
BY HANNAH MAY WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE Fake news. Algorithms. Manipulation of our perception of the world….
DOCO
How Ilan Eshkeri scored David Attenborough’s new BBC nature documentary
BY JESSIE WANG Many of us have watched Sir David Attenborough’s documentaries. You might’ve tuned in…
FILM
Film composer Antony Partos discusses his life in Australian music
BY LIAM HEITMANN-RYCE It was on an aeroplane in June, 2010 that I first heard the…