Film.Music.Media

David Ari Leon takes some time to talk about his work. David brings his unique sound to projects not only as a composer but as a music supervisor as well. We go into detail not just about his music for various hit video games but also his role as a music supervisor on a massive amount of hit Marvel animated series. We talk about brand sounds and genre sounds and working within them. He co-wrote th...

Composer Tom Harrison talkes about his score to the short film, The Sidelines. As a composer who is just starting out we talk about what's like to be a beginning in the industry. He talks about moving to Los Angeles and the steps he is taking as a young composer in Hollywood. A great interview for anyone looking for ideas on how to get your foot in the door and make some moves.

iZLER chats about his recent scoring collaboration on Natural Selection as well as his score to On The Ice. The extremely talented composer goes into depth about his process including collaboration as well as how he handles doing a hit TV series like Revenge on ABC. iZLER is indeed a very talented composer and his music shows that. This was a very pleasant chat so please enjoy!

Chris Hajian takes some time to talk about two upcoming documentaries he scored. On April 13, 2012 the Marc Dreier documentary Unraveled opens in select theatres and in May the Sundance Selects documentary First Position will be rolling out in theatres. Chris gives an insightful look into each of the projects as well as documentary scoring as a whole. He also talks about scoring a handful of direc...

The queen of documentary film scoring takes some time to chat about her career and her approach to documentary scoring. Miriam has scored great documentaries like the Emmy winning Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib and Emmy nominated Thin. This interview features a heavy focus on doc scoring and it's a very enlightening chat. Miriam shares how she got in the industry and her love for ethnic music. She talks abo...

Composer Danny Jacob is behind the mega-hit animated series, Phineas & Pherb from Disney. We talk about his guitar background and how he found himself on the popular series. Danny shares the ins and outs of working on an animated program where half a year goes by before he sees the finished product. He also shares how the songs are incorporated into the show since diegetic music is a huge part of...

The amazing Christopher Lennertz takes some time to chat about Mass Effect 3 and some upcoming projects. We go in detail about comedy scoring and family film scoring. We spend a good portion talking about his work on Mass Effect 3 and how the rest of the composing team came together to craft a cohesive and epic score for such a large scale game. We also discuss the importance of directors sticking...

Breaking Bad composer, Dave Porter takes us into the inner workings of the Emmy winning TV series. We talk about his time from the beginning all the way to the upcoming final season. We discuss his technique towards the show and what he wants his music to accomplish in each episode. We also discuss in detail how music should function in documentaries and how he approached his newest documentary, B...

Timothy Michael Wynn takes some time  to talk about his impressive score to The Darkness II, the new video game. We discuss game scoring and what his approach to the game was. Wynn also shares his knowledge about documentary scoring and how he approached his newest documentary, Burn. A really great interview with a really great guy. Enjoy!

Randall Winston has produced some of TV's best series. He is Bill Lawrence's partner in crime and has produced on shows such as Spin City, Scrubs and now Cougar Town. Scrubs fans will know him as Leonard the security guard with a hook for a hand from Scrubs (one of his many cameos). Randall now serves as Co-Executive Producer on the amazing Cougar Town. I talk to Randall about his position on the...

Listen to a unique interview where a director interviews his composer. Daniel has composed two films for me, but the interview is focusing on Daniel's new album. Sunday Mood Swings is a new album from a very talented musician and filmmaker. We talk about our own collaborations as well as his own films. Not only is Daniel a composer, but a filmmaker as well. So we chat about what it's like for a di...

Composer Kim Planert is a fantastic new talent in the score world. He has worked under Robert Duncan who composes hit TV series like Castle, Lie To Me and The Unit. All of which Kim composed additional music for. Kim is now co-composing Missing with Robert Duncan. We talk about the journey that led him to Los Angeles and how he met Robert. We also discuss the TV scoring schedule and what his and R...

David Buckley takes time to chat about his new score to the Amanda Seyfried thriller, Gone. David gives a brief recounting of how he got into music and how he met Harry Gregson-Williams who he collaborates with frequently. We chat about his approach for Gone, and his use of electronics and their function in the score. David also discusses scoring multiple films in the same genre close together and...

Composer John Hunter scored the Academy Award nominated animated short, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore. We chat about his approach in scoring a silent film and how the music needed to be the structure of the film. He briefly discusses the animation process of the unique story that combines almost every type of animation found in films today. The film's score is structured around...

Joel Douek (The Wildest Dream, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- TV Series), Freddy Sheinfeld (La Hora Zero, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- TV Series) and Elik Álvarez (La Virgen Negra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- TV Series) all sit down for F.M.M's first roundtable discussion. The trio of composers who have worked together for many years on some of your favorite animated series team up for Kingdom O...

This interview with Elik Álvarez was done at his studio in Pasadena, CA. We talk about his start in the business and how he moved from Venezuela to California to start a family and career. Elik composed the fantastic score to La Virgen Negra and utilized Lisbeth Scott's stunning vocals in that score. He also co-composed the BBC nature documentary Kingdom Of Plants 3D. Elik also gives some tips on...

Michael Wandmacher who has scored grindhouse B movie homages like Piranha 3D and Drive Angry brings his hard metal sound to Twisted Metal. We talk about getting his start in the business, his approach in scoring the many characters in this over the top rock score, and discuss the game's feature that allows you to play your own music instead of the in-game music. Michael's scores are extremely fun...

Daniel Licht may be known for his work on Dexter but on March 6th he will be replacing Akira Yamaoka as the sound of Silent Hill in Silent Hill: Downpour. We chat exclusively about the game and what his goals and motives were. Plus what it was like taking over for Yamaoka who has been the signature sound of the game franchise for more than a decade.

Composer Cliff Eidelman takes time to talk about his recent score for Big Miracle. We discuss in detail the importance of the composer/director relationship. We also focus on how to make sure the score to a family film doesn't seep into saccharine and schmaltzy territory. As you can hear from the opening intro that Big Miracle is nothing of the sort but instead is a grand sounding score with well...

(Audio Sourced From Video) Here is some raw, candid footage of the Q&A that the Cougar Town gang gave at the Los Angeles viewing party. Bill Lawrence answers fan questions on the studio lot! Cougar Town is back on ABC starting February 14th, 2012!

Grammy nominated composer Ryan Shore takes some time to chat about his score for The Shrine for which he was nominated for. Ryan discusses his start in music, horror composing, composing under a budget and much more. We discuss his spoof score for Stan Helsing as well and what entails scoring not just a comedy but a spoof in the same style as Scary Movie. Ryan Shore is such a great talent who is a...

If you haven't heard of Abel Korzeniowski I suggest you familiarize yourself with him. Abel is by far one of the richest talents in the composing scene right now. With brilliant scores like Copernicus' Star, A Single Man and now W./E. Korzeniowski (pronounced 'ah-bell korshen-yovski') not only demonstrates an impeccable ability to craft emotions but striking melodic passages as well. I feel W./E....

Let me start off my saying that I am a huge fan of Bill Lawrence. Scrubs was a huge part of my life for all 9 seasons that it aired and Bill is a huge inspiration to me as a screenwriter. So I was ecstatic when I heard Bill was doing a show with Kevin Biegel. When Cougar Town started it took a good half a dozen episodes before it found its groove and boy when it did it really became something spec...

You can hear composer Joey Newman's music every time you tune into The Middle on ABC as well as on the reality show Little People, Big World. Joey also just conducted alongside John Williams at the Young Musicians Foundation Gala. If you're wondering about the last name the answer is yes, he is indeed from the prestigious Newman family of composers. I talk to him about entering his family's legacy...

Before the holidays I got to talk to Lorne Balfe once again about his recent duo of video game scores. Recently Lorne joined Jesper Kyd to co-score Assassin's Creed: Revelations and he also scored Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure with a main theme from Hans Zimmer. This time around we discuss the video game world and how Lorne who previously had never been a gamer has found a new niche that he's fall...