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2 days ago
The Music of Project Hail Mary, with Composer Daniel Pemberton
Composer Daniel Pemberton discusses his inventive new original score for “Project Hail Mary.” He breaks down how he built a custom musical language for the film using everything from wooden blocks, body percussion, treated vocals, bowls of water, and even a squeaky water tap recorded on his iPhone....
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Music concrete - something I recall from my heady uni daze. Running around getting real world sounds, usually from construction sites, bringing them back to the studio and sequencing them into somethi...
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Instrument / Medium for composing
What do you use most when you’re composing?
Piano, guitar, voice notes, full DAW… something else?
And is there a different instrument or setup you wish you used more?
Tony DiGregorio
- 1 week ago
Mostly guitar but I keep trying to play piano for composing but I have been at the beginning stage for years.
Morgan Aitken
- 6 days ago
Phone. It's easier to carry than a pipe organ.
Harold Ferré
- 6 days ago
I'm not a music composer, but I still love playing guitar and piano. To all you production guys who can play every instrument? I love you guys. But I'm also a killer DJ!
Hello!! My name is IOANNIS GOGONAS. I am using mostly my MIdi keyboard, I FOCUS A LOT and I use CUBASE. I LOVE MUSIC !!
FREE Webinar – April 1st: How to Navigate the Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film
This Wednesday, April 1st, Stage 32 is hosting a FREE webinar you don’t want to miss:
How to Navigate the Cannes Film Festival Marché du Film
We’re bringing in Guillaume Esmiol, Executive Director of the Marché d...
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Is Melody Dead: Have We All Become Loop Zombies?
Hey, how many of you still collect little musical gremlins?
A riff. A motif. A strange little tune that wanders in, lights a cigarette in your brain, and refuses to leave.
Do you squirrel those things away and later build something properly obscene out of them? A cue, a song, a score, a whole piece?
Or...
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Bruce Bray
- 6 days ago
Melody is not dead to me. at least when it comes to composing that is. I still have an old school approach and try to mix that in with the new way of composing as well. I find it now filmmakers are mo...
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I'm glad to hear it Bruce Bray ! It's definitely not dead to me, either. In fact it's the movie soundtracks that are built on melody rather than sound design that I remember the best. For instance I m...
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Ted Nichols, Famed Hanna-Barbera Composer on ‘The Flintstones’ and ‘Scooby-Doo,’ Dies at 97
He may not have been a Film Composer but he was very influential. We heard his works every Saturday morning. RIP https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ted-nichols-dead-scooby-doo......
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So sad, the greats are leaving us.
My deepest condolences! Rest in peace, Ted Nichols!
Songs You Don’t Just Write… You Live
There are songs you write…
…and then there are songs you live.
I wrote this piano piece, Ember, during a moment where I felt something deeply… but couldn’t act on it.
That quiet intensity.
That ache that doesn’t go away.
That kind of feeling that just… lives in you.
Music became the only place it could ex...
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Marie Hatten
- 7 days ago
Kat Spencer It's beautiful and haunting.
Gave it a listen. Thanks for sharing this, Kat Spencer !
What I liked is that it doesn’t lunge for cheap drama. It stays in that suspended ache, like a thought you can’t quite put down and can’t quite...
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AI in composing?
What do you guys think about AI use in composing and songwriting? Do you think that it should be limited/banned from commercial use, or embrace it with open arms? I do understand the difference between AI generated songs and AI tools.
Robert D. Carver
- 1 week ago
Morgan, I research the pre-existing music most closely associated with the historical period and location in which my script is set. For example, If the musical takes place in the High Medieval (14th-...
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Nico Abondolo
- 1 week ago
To echo, Robert D. Carver's point, researching pre-existing historical music might well enhance a period script. A trained ear can pair styles beautifully. On the other hand, a historical contrast mig...
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Robert D. Carver
- 1 week ago
Nico, AI is only a tool and should be used with discretion, if at all. Composers--or songwriters--should rely on their own talent and training.
Nico Abondolo
- 7 days ago
I definitely second your view.
Robert D. Carver
- 7 days ago
I would no more trust AI to write lyrics than the man in the moon!
What was the most FUN piece of music you ever composed?
It's the weekend (well almost) and that's usually when I can compose. My day job consists of protecting families and we get into some pretty heavy stuff. Yesterday, I had to help a wife talk through logisitics and realities of her husband passing from Stage 4 cancer. So, this weekend, I'm sure I'll...
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Advert Soundtracks
What's the best advert (commercial, trailers don't count) music you've ever heard?
For my money, this is still one of the great ad-music earworms ever made: Gillette’s 1989 “The Best a Man Can Get.
Any others anyone can point me at?...
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When The Score MAKES The Movie!
Well, I had a new experience this weekend... going to see an Amazon movie in a theater. As we walked out of the theater, two things stood out to me about Hail Mary: #1 Ryan Gosling just did a 2+ hour monologue and was so good he made us believe "Rocky" was real. #2 The score MADE this movie. In my h...
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Tony DiGregorio
- 1 week ago
One Battle after Another, score by Jonny Greenwood
Libby Wright
- 1 week ago
What made this score special Tony DiGregorio ?
Maybe a reflective movie.
Interstellar - hands down. The movie was ruined by the casting - especially the lead, and the fact you can't understand a word he mumbles - but the music is the whole show. Then again, Notes On A Scandal was made all the more powerful by the Philip Glass's ethereal score.
Libby, I liked the way he built tension in certain scenes with a minimalist kind of melody and growing intense rhythm.
The Music of Sinners, with Ludwig and Serena Göransson
A deep dive into the Score of Sinners. Winner of the following Awards for 2025-2026: Oscar, Bafta, Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, African-American Film Critics Association, Astra Awards, Austin Film Critics Association Awards, Black Reel Awards, Boston Online Film Critics Asso...
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Just finished? I'm thinking the wrong video got linked. What played is something I saw on Blender Studio years ago. But it's brill animation and soundtrack.