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Trying to put film music into words; Host of “The Film Scorer” podcast, featuring long-form interviews with film composers https://thefilmscorer.com

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 6d

@jesperkyd.bsky.social and I chat about his latest score collection for Warhammer 40k: Darktide (which is obscenely fun: crunchy, industrial, & danceable), some of his older game scores (including a personal fav, Freedom Fighters) & differences between scoring for film and video games

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An Interview with Jesper Kyd - The Film Scorer

Legendary composer Jesper Kyd (Hitman, Assassin's Creed) joins The Film Scorer podcast to talk about his score for Warhammer 40k: Darktide.

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a good point, also weird that it they frame it as best but the article is about essential horror scores. And as much as I like something like beyond the black rainbow, I’d never call it “essential”

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 3d

It’s always a tricky balance, nice to hear something new but also nice to hear the classics

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 3d

Dan Romer is scoring the new Game of Thrones prequel series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, after Ramin Djawadi scored both the original and House of the Dragon. But with no opening title sequence I’m guess that means we still won’t get a new main titles track

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 4d

What a way to build some excitement for Marty Supreme and Daniel Lopatin’s score

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Helen, even five years in (or however long I’ve been doing this), it still feels a bit surreal!

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 6d

Wooow that’s unreal, can’t believe that seemingly no one knew about the cancellation till it happened. That really sucks, I know you were stoked for it

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 6d

An Interview with Jesper Kyd - The Film Scorer

Legendary composer Jesper Kyd (Hitman, Assassin's Creed) joins The Film Scorer podcast to talk about his score for Warhammer 40k: Darktide.

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 6d

Seems like a great combo, and 100% Prey is pretty underrated imo

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like Sarah Schachner (Prey) and Benjamin Wallfisch (Alien: Romulus, Predator: Killer of Killers) are teaming up to score Predator: Badlands. Getting the composers of all the recent Alien and Predator films together…

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 7d

Ugh I knew he had some other “questionable” views but I hadn’t heard that 🤢

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 8d

A little bit of The Wizard of Oz making it's way into Jonny Greenwood's score for One Battle After Another

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 8d

Better than thinking they didn’t know what they were talking about 😉

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 8d

It sucks that Future Ruins got cancelled, but it’s all leaving a bad taste: no updates since May (and seemingly no posts since then), cancelled a month beforehand, no real explanation given…

I’m hoping they clear the air about what’s happened soon

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 8d

Damn, Future Ruins, the big film music festival headlined by Reznor and Ross, is cancelled.

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 8d

“When there is no permanence, when everything becomes ephemeral, then there is no risk.”

I wrote a little about themes in film music, how their use (or lack thereof) affects meaning for the viewer, and how it all goes back to risk taking

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Extratextual Meaning and Risk in Film Music - The Film Scorer

A look into extratextual meaning in film music, and how decreasing thematic material reduces our connection to films.

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 10d

This review of Anemone has an odd observation about the score, describing it not simply as interfering with the viewer but as actually disrupting the characters and their ability to speak to one another

Of course, score would be used to fill the void left by limited dialogue, not the inverse

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 10d

Charlie - with that in mind, you might be interested in this project from the Folklore Tapes:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/212...

Folklore Tapes present: The Watchers - Book | Record | Show

Folklore Tapes re-imagine the 1969 film The Watchers. A creative expansion through a new soundtrack, archival book, and live show

www.kickstarter.com

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 10d

Ah I wish they did too - I normally don't care too much about "complete" releases, but something like that really deserves to be heard on its own too since that's such a monumental length

When I get ten minutes free I'll probably place the two back to back, funny reference

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 10d

Have seen a lot of descriptors thrown around for Bobby Krlic’s Anemone score, like industrial, synthwave, drone, etc (all wrong btw), but most of it is actually like if Alex G made post rock

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 12d

Another weird mini cue in Death Wish 3 is this playful wild west cavalry piece, which plays after Charles Bronson booby traps a house in order to brutally maim or kill any intruders

The film itself is completely serious in its savagery and takes every chance to revel in it

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 13d

Haha was thinking the same thing! Is it really that long, uninterrupted? Have to imagine it’s up there then. I’d want to watch the film again before I solidify my feelings on the score

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 13d

There are a couple homages to the Wicked Witch theme during the third act, you can hear it at the beginning of the Tom Cruise cue in the album release

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 13d

There are some pretty odd music moments in Death Wish 3, such as the most unnecessary example of Mickey Mousing I've seen in years

The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 14d

Funny that six months ago Jonny Greenwood’s score for One Battle After Another was described as having big techno elements when that simply doesn’t apply to the score at all

It does have Wizard of Oz elements, however

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The Film Scorer @thefilmscorer.bsky.social · 15d

From Indiana to Iowa and skipping Chicago, shameful stuff!

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