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Horror films incorporate varied musical influences, but there are some things many scary soundtracks have in common.
Our new Music and Games 2023 Benchmark aims to establish the scope and scale of Australia’s game music sector.
Ludwig Göransson’s score immerses the audience in Oppenheimer’s inner emotional dilemma.
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.
From the first frame of the theme song, it is clear craft and imagination are deeply valued throughout the show’s entire soundtrack.
Music and film have gone hand in hand ever since the release of ‘The Jazz Singer’ nearly 100 years ago.
Although a Grammy win for a TikTok musical was a first, musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.
A somewhat obscure 2003 science-fiction film has a luminous soundtrack, which brings surprising solace to a locked down world.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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Composer and Lecturer in Screen Composition, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, York University, Canada
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Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor in Film Music Studies and Music Psychology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Music, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Music, UMass Lowell
