‘Sirât’ Composer Kangding Ray on How Synths Helped Craft the Film’s Techno Score and Create Desert Sounds

Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” is both ambitious and radical, according to the film’s composer and musician Kangding Ray. “Sirât” is ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Score a Score Marks 15 Years of Music Made to Order

How entrepreneur Jordan Passman created a thriving marketplace for screen musicians. By Lily Moayeri Fifteen years ago, Jordan Passman had a simple idea: Help musicians make money. With the birth of ...
Variety

Song, score rules constantly in flux

Exactly how to recognize excellence in adapting pre-existing music for the film medium has plagued the Academy music branch from the very beginning. No category in Oscar history has been so endlessly ...
Filmmaker

Music as Nourishment: Max Richter on Scoring “Hamnet”

With Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017), Chloé Zhao constructed tender epics out of prolonged time spent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Much like her Oscar-winning ...