Sony Masterworks’ Score to Screen Podcast Series features actors and composers discussing passion for their artistry. Guests from the world of film, TV and video games speak to the unique process of crafting musical scores, finding inspiration, writing for particular scenes and characters, utilizing unusual instruments and collaborating with directors. Tune in to get the in-depth scoop on music from 1917, The Witcher, Color Out of Space, The Lighthouse, and more!
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Score to Screen with Tom Holkenborg (Army of the Dead)
Thursday, August 5, 2021 • Duration 21:16
Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Army of the Dead composer opens up about crafting the epic score alongside Zack Snyder for the zombie heist film. Beyond the score, Holkenborg speaks upon his past musical influences, working with esteemed Hollywood names and his passion towards music education.
From filmmaker Zack Snyder, Army of the Dead takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he now calls home, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), it’s with the ultimate proposition: break into the zombie-infested quarantine zone to retrieve $200 million sitting in a vault beneath the strip before the city is nuked by the government in 32 hours. With little left to lose, Ward takes on the challenge, assembling a ragtag team of experts for the heist. With a ticking clock, a notoriously impenetrable vault, and a smarter, faster horde of Alpha zombies closing in, only one thing’s for certain in the greatest heist ever attempted: survivors take all.
Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, is a Grammy nominated multi platinum producer, musician, composer and educator whose versatility puts him on the cutting edge of contemporary music, and whose thirst for innovation is helping to reimagine the world of composition. A full contact composer, Holkenborg is hands on at every stage of the composing process, a multi-instrumentalist who combines a mastery of studio engineering, classical musical training and an innate sense of curiosity. He is as adept working with a 50 piece philharmonic orchestra as he is with a wall of modular synths, playing a bass guitar or building his own physical and digital instruments. His drive to reimagine what’s possible and share that knowledge with the next generation of composers is what makes Holkenborg a unique force, and one of the most in-demand film composers in the world. He has worked with directors including Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron, George Miller, Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder and Tim Miller among many others. An educator as well as a creator, Tom is committed to breaking down the barriers of entry in the world of film composition, creating the free SCORE Academy program in Los Angeles, a music composition program at the ArtEZ conservationism in his home country of the Netherlands and on YouTube, where he hosts his educational series StudioTime, which has been watched millions of times.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
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Score to Screen Podcast Series Trailer
Thursday, May 27, 2021 • Duration 01:14
Sony Masterworks’ Score to Screen Podcast Series features actors and composers discussing passion for their artistry. Guests from the world of film, TV and video games speak to the unique process of crafting musical scores, finding inspiration, writing for particular scenes and characters, utilizing unusual instruments and collaborating with directors. Tune in to get the in-depth scoop on music from The New Pope, Little Women, The Crown, Death Stranding, and more!
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Score to Screen with Ilan Eshkeri (Ghost of Tsushima, A Perfect Planet)
Thursday, April 22, 2021 • Duration 21:07
Ilan Eshkeri is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The award-winning composer highlights the importance of narrative and story when it comes to crafting score music. Eshkeri provides an in depth look at his soundtrack to the documentary series, A Perfect Planet as well as the admired video game, Ghost of Tsushima.
A Perfect Planet is a unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife. It takes us on a stunning visual journey, from lands drenched by the Indian monsoon to the slopes of fiery Hawaiian volcanoes, from the tidal islands of the Bahamas to the frozen wastes of Ellesmere Island. From Arctic wolves prowling moonlit landscapes in winter, to frozen wood frogs magically thawing back to life in spring; from the vampire finches of the Galapagos who drink the blood of seabirds, to the African flamingos who gather in their thousands every year in a vast volcanic lake to breed.
The video game, Ghost of Tsushima, takes place in the late 13th century, when the Mongol empire has laid waste to entire nations along their campaign to conquer the East. Tsushima Island is all that stands between mainland Japan and a massive Mongol invasion fleet led by the ruthless and cunning general, Khotun Khan. As the island burns in the wake of the first wave of the Mongol assault, samurai warrior Jin Sakai stands as one of the last surviving members of his clan. He is resolved to do whatever it takes, at any cost, to protect his people and reclaim his home. He must set aside the traditions that have shaped him as a warrior to forge a new path, the path of the Ghost, and wage an unconventional war for the freedom of Tsushima.
Ilan Eshkeri is an award-winning composer, artist, songwriter, producer and creator. Eshkeri’s work is performed in concert halls, theaters, galleries, on film and television and in video games. Recent projects include A Perfect Planet, his fourth collaboration with the legendary naturalist David Attenborough and The White Crow which he worked on with Ralph Fiennes. Both followed the creation of a ballet, Narcissus and Echo, choreographed by famed dancer Sergei Polunin with set designs by David LaChapelle and a ballet commission from Rambert Dance Company. Eshkeri has collaborated with Burberry on a landmark fashion show, where he composed and conducted a choral symphonic suite, Reliquary, which then reached No. 1 in the UK classical chart. Before this, he worked with astronaut Tim Peake and the European Space Agency on a film documenting his mission to the International Space Station. He continues his collaboration with Tim Peake and ESA with his spellbinding show Space Station Earth, last performed in Stockholm to an audience of 10,000. Eshkeri’s many creative partnerships include artists such as Annie Lennox, David Gilmour, Sinead O’Connor, KT Tunstall, Tom Odell, Ash and The Cinematic Orchestra. Amongst his extensive catalogue of film and television are multiple Oscar & BAFTA winning films, such as Still Alice, Stardust and Shaun The Sheep.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
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Score to Screen with Jeff Russo (Fargo Year 4)
Thursday, April 1, 2021 • Duration 13:38
Jeff Russo is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The returning Fargo composer, previously working on the last 3 installments, reflects on how he crafted the Season 4 score starting from scratch with just the script to sketch ideas for various themes that capture each character, the time period and the vast array of stories.
In 1950 Kansas City, the fourth installment of Fargo centers on two criminal syndicates who are fighting for a piece of the American dream and have struck an uneasy peace. Together, they control an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs. To cement their truce, Loy Cannon (Chris Rock), the head of the African American crime family, trades his youngest son Satchel (Rodney Jones), to his enemy Donatello Fadda (Tomasso Ragno), the head of the Italian mafia. In return, Donatello surrenders his youngest son Zero (Jameson Braccioforte) to Loy. Intertwined with this tale of immigration, assimilation, and power, are the stories of Josto Fadda (Jason Schwartzman), the impulsive and self-indulgent heir apparent to the Fadda Crime Family; Donatello’s adopted son Rabbi Milligan (Ben Whishaw); Detective Odis Weff (Jack Huston); Oraetta Mayflower (Jessie Buckley); Ethelrida Pearl Smutny (E’myri Crutchfield), the precocious 16-year-old daughter of Thurman (Andrew Bird) and Dibrell Smutny (Anji White) and U.S. Marshal Dick “Deafy” Wickware (Timothy Olyphant).
Jeff Russo is an Emmy® Award–winning and Grammy-nominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television, and video games. He won an Emmy Award and received two additional Emmy nominations for his thrilling and angst-producing score on FX’s Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Fargo. Russo also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Music for Annapurna Interactive’s video game What Remains of Edith Finch. Russo’s film credits include Lucy in the Sky, Lizzie, Mile 22, and Three Christs. Russo recently scored season 4 of Fargo and season 3 of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery. He’s currently scoring season 2 of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind and Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost, a sequel to Power. His music can also be heard on shows such as Netflix’s Cursed, Altered Carbon, The Umbrella Academy and Lucifer; CBS All Access’s Star Trek: Picard; FX’s Legion and Snowfall; Starz’s Counterpart; HBO’s Golden Globe– and Emmy-nominated series The Night Of. In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo is a founding member, lead guitarist, and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling rock band Tonic. Their debut album, Lemon Parade, posted three singles in the U.S. Mainstream rock charts’ Top 10, with “If You Could Only See” rocketing to number one. In 2003, the band received two Grammy nominations, one for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” for “Take Me As I Am,” and one for Best Rock Album.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
Listen to the Fargo Year 4 Soundtrack here.
Listen to the official Jeff Russo Spotify playlist here.
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Score to Screen with Ludvig Forssell (Death Stranding)
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 • Duration 13:19
Ludvig Forssell is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Death Stranding composer recalls his efforts experimenting with everyday household objects to create alien-like sounds which became the backbone of the eerie score.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima, comes a genre-defying open world action adventure for PS4, starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux and Lindsay Wagner. In the near future, mysterious explosions have rocked the globe, setting off a series of supernatural events known as the Death Stranding. With otherworldly creatures plaguing the landscape, and mass extinction imminent, it’s up to Sam Porter Bridges to travel across the ravaged wasteland and save humanity from impending annihilation.
Ludvig Forssell is a Swedish composer, songwriter, and voice actor, as well as an audio director at Kojima Productions. For the Metal Gear series, he composed the soundtracks for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Forssell also wrote the lyrics for "Sins of the Father," performed by Donna Burke and “Quiet’s Theme,” performed by Stefanie Joosten. As an actor, he provided the voices of minor characters and the likeness for the Shago Platoon commander.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
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Score to Screen with Richard Reed Parry (The Nest)
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 • Duration 13:19
Richard Reed Parry is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Nest composer explains how his intuitive response to watching the entirety of the film without music inspired how he devised the acoustic score.
The Nest follows Rory (Jude Law), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker, who persuades his American wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the 1980s. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison’s horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple have to face the unwelcome truths lying beneath the surface of their marriage.
Richard Reed Parry is the musical polymath at the heart of the endlessly inventive art rock band Arcade Fire, but his work and story reach far beyond. As well as navigating Arcade Fire's meteoric rollercoaster ride around most of the globe over the past fifteen years, he also released his debut album as composer for Music For Heart and Breath in 2014, formed and toured in the acclaimed contemporary instrumental ensemble Bell Orchestre with Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld, formed the sonic folk ensemble Quiet River of Dust, and collaborated and performed endlessly with artists from across a dazzling musical/artistic spectrum including David Bowie, David Byrne, the New York Philharmonic, Neil Young, and more. He has won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, multiple Juno Awards for both Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre, The Polaris Prize, Brit Awards, and Socan Awards among others. The Nest is Parry’s debut feature film score as solo composer.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
Listen to The Nest Soundtrack here.
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Score to Screen with Keegan DeWitt (All The Bright Places)
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 • Duration 11:37
Composer Keegan DeWitt is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The All The Bright Places composer reveals what it was like crafting the sweeping score, working alongside director Brett Haley, and recording at Capitol Studios.
Based on the internationally bestselling novel by Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places tells the story of Violet Markey (Elle Fanning) and Theodore Finch (Justice Smith), who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean something. This compelling drama provides a refreshing and human take on the experience of mental illness, its impact on relationships, as well as the beauty and lasting impact of young love.
Keegan DeWitt is one of the more versatile and exciting young composers working in film and TV. Whether adding a refreshing voice to larger projects at HBO, Showtime, and FOX or collaborating alongside notable independent filmmakers; his work crosses a large tapestry of styles and demands attention with its originality and emotion. Over the past 5 years, Keegan has brought 15 films to the Sundance Film Festival; many titles that would go on to garner an Academy Award, multiple Sundance Audience Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award. In addition, Keegan continues to expand on previous collaborative relationships with exciting young directors who have helped make his work a mainstay at festivals worldwide.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
Listen to the All the Bright Places Soundtrack here.
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Score to Screen with Lele Marchitelli (The New Pope)
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 • Duration 11:50
Composer Lele Marchitelli is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. Marchitelli recalls scoring certain scenes from The New Pope while working alongside series creator and director Paolo Sorrentino. Marchitelli delves into specific moments from the series and goes into detail about the track creation process.
Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino returns with The New Pope, his second original series set in the world of the modern papacy. Written by Sorrentino with Umberto Contarello and Stefano Bises, the nine-episode original series features Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando, Cécile de France, Javier Cámara, Ludivine Sagnier. Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson guest star.
Of the soundtrack, Marchitelli says, “In soundtracks for cinema and TV, I think it’s not so much the music you use but how you use it. We could use the term ‘counterintuitive’ to describe certain musical choices that take an unexpected direction compared to what the audience expects. Paolo Sorrentino belongs to a set of directors who share this approach; his musical choices, regarding both pre-existing music and original scores, are extremely well thought out and incongruous with respect to the editing of the scenes. If the music says one thing and the dialogues, the acting or the scene in general don’t, it means it has achieved its goal: completing the director’s thinking.”
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
Listen to The New Pope Soundtrack here.
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Score to Screen with Steven Price (Archive)
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 • Duration 13:36
Steven Price is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Archive composer recalls his first moments scoring the movie alongside director Gavin Rothery and explains how he used different synth and sliding guitar sounds to capture the presence of artificial intelligence.
Archive is set in the year 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. He has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.
In 2014, Steven Price's groundbreaking score for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity garnered awards wins in the “Best Original Score” category for the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice, and ASCAP’s first-ever “Film Composer of the Year” award. Other prominent projects include Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver (2017) and The World’s End (2013), Tom Harper’s The Aeronauts, (2019), Warner Brothers’ blockbuster hit Suicide Squad (2016), and the WWII epic Fury (2014), written and directed by David Ayer, and starring Brad Pitt. Television credits include Believe (2014), produced by Alfonso Cuarón, BBC’s The Hunt (2015), a landmark natural history documentary series for which Price won his second BAFTA Award, and Our Planet (Netflix) which earned two Emmy score nominations for the composer in 2019. Forthcoming 2020 projects include David Attenborough: A Live on Our Planet (Netflix) and Glen Keane’s animation Over the Moon (Netflix).
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
Listen to the Archive Soundtrack here.
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Score to Screen with Rachel Portman (Chocolat)
Tuesday, December 29, 2020 • Duration 12:42
Rachel Portman is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Chocolat composer opens up about how she crafted the woodwind heavy score that features melodies inspired by French villages and the indulgence of chocolate. Portman tells us about her guilty pleasure eating ample chocolate while scoring the film.
Adapted from the novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat is a fun-loving fable about how just one taste of life’s pleasures can change a person, a relationship, town. It is a tale of temptation, repression and the liberating powers of the senses – the comedic story of an escalating small-town war sparked by the passions and fears aroused by the arrival of a mysterious chocolate shop. Starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin and Johnny Depp, Chocolat is a David Brown production of a Lasse Hallström film, presented by Miramax Films.
British composer Rachel Portman became the first female composer to win both an Outstanding Music Composition Academy Award for Emma and a Primetime Emmy Award for Bessie. She received two Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination. Rachel was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 and is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. She has written stage and concert works, among them commissions from the BBC Proms and Houston Grand Opera.
The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz.
Listen to the Chocolat Soundtrack here.
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