“Being a composer is trusting your gut,” reckons Ego Plum (The Cuphead Show)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE He’s known as The Cartoon Composer — and in 2022 he scored one of the truest-to-genre shows to land on Netflix. Inspired […]
Level and Gain
How Theodore Shapiro composed The School for Good and Evil
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The School for Good and Evil is a tale of heroes, villains, and their training ground. For composer Theodore Shapiro, this story […]
How to compose a jump scare, and other creepy tales
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Something doesn’t feel right. Your heartbeat quickens, and your muscles tense. You raise your hands in front of your eyes, peaking through […]
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 […]
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 relationship between these characters is woven through After –– […]
The Dig composer talks STEM, music theatre, and film score debut
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE VIA LEVEL AND GAIN It’s pretty special when your compose your first feature film and it’s released on Netflix starring Carey Mulligan […]
How Kevin Kiner composes “bigger than life” Star Wars soundtracks
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA VIA LEVEL AND GAIN If you’ve been paying attention to Star Wars over the past decade, you’d know the property has been […]
Nainita Desai composes the experience of living with autism for The Reason I Jump
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Every year in April, Autism Acceptance Month (previously Autism Awareness Month) is celebrated across the world. […]
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. Manipulation of our perception of ourselves. Confronting big issues […]
Film composer Nathan Halpern is delivering empathy out of darkness
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE VIA LEVEL AND GAIN Nathan Halpern’s two latest projects have one thing in common: they’re dark. The film Swallow is a psychological […]