Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960).
Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo
Horror films incorporate varied musical influences, but there are some things many scary soundtracks have in common.
Pexels/Polina Tankilevitch
Our new Music and Games 2023 Benchmark aims to establish the scope and scale of Australia’s game music sector.
© Universal Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Ludwig Göransson’s score immerses the audience in Oppenheimer’s inner emotional dilemma.
While the Roy siblings are shielded by their wealth, the show’s music chips away at their armor.
Macall Polay/HBO
Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.
HBO
From the first frame of the theme song, it is clear craft and imagination are deeply valued throughout the show’s entire soundtrack.
Without its iconic music, the shower scene of the movie ‘Psycho’ would likely create a very different experience for viewers.
Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images
Music and film have gone hand in hand ever since the release of ‘The Jazz Singer’ nearly 100 years ago.
The duo ‘Barlow and Bear,’ made up of singer Abigail Barlow and composer Emily Bear, won the 2022 Grammy Award for best musical theatre album for ‘The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,’ shared over TikTok.
(Bear and Barlow/Igor Kasyanyuk)
Although a Grammy win for a TikTok musical was a first, musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.
Samantha Morton in Code 46.
BBC Films, BBC, Kailash Picture Company
A somewhat obscure 2003 science-fiction film has a luminous soundtrack, which brings surprising solace to a locked down world.
Musical scores for video game play utilise some traditional elements of composition but apply the latest technology.
www.shutterstock.com
Creators of video game sound scores have more in common with classical composers than you might think - and they create dynamic sounds and music that cleverly respond to play.
Swedish organist Anna von Hausswolff.
Anders Nydam
Other than church, the pipe organ is often perceived as belonging in horror movies. But there’s more to the instrument that spans most musical genres.