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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]