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Streamers and Punches 1: Driving Miss Ostinato

Posted on 10 Aug 2011 by Dave

Brand new show! Streamers and Punches looks at Spotify, new commissions for film composers, an article about composer tech talk, and a current trend in scoring we call the “Running Strings.”

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This week’s panel:

This week’s topics include:

We take a look at Spotify’s new service in the US.
John Williams has a new quartet commission; Danny Elfman writes music for Cirque du Soleil.
Film Music Magazine has an article by Jay Asher detailing the ever-increasing technical vocabulary that composers need to adopt in today’s film composing industry.
A closer look at the trend “Running Strings,” a texture style attributed originally to Clint Mansell’s Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream, and used in several other scores: Batman Begins, Inception, Transformers, Tron Legacy, Thor, and Green Lantern.

If you like…

Don Davis’s score to The Matrix (Amazon MP3 – iTunes), you might like Harmonielehre by John Adams (Amazon MP3 – iTunes).