Save up your pennies, dweebs, because there’s a full slate of Fall films, each with it’s own score to make you swoon as the leaves take a dive and you dig out that over-sized, stretched and stained cable-knit sweater you wear to your soul-robbing IT job. All dates refer to North American film release. [...]

Composing: a collaborative process
Divergent methods employed to make poignant scores
By Matt Hurwitz
Some composers work in isolation, while some lead teams of writers and orchestrators who help complete their vision. Whether they’re scoring huge Hollywood features or smaller indie films, they all have their own methods of working with their production teams. Each has the same [...]

Ask any group of die-hard film score nerds who the world’s most popular film composer is, and they’ll probably tell you it’s their favorite film composer. Which means you never ask a die-hard film score nerd to answer global questions like that. They almost always possess a myopic view of music in general [...]

Tyler Bates returns with more of the night he came home… and unlike his effort for Rob Zombies miserable re-imagining of John Carpenter’s classic Halloween, this time Bates’s tunes will be commercially released on his own label, Abattoir Recordings. Can’t wait for the remake of The Curse of Michael Myers next year. Here’s [...]