Variety

‘Nosferatu’ Composer on Using 60 String Players to Create a Disorienting, ‘F—ed Up’ Score

The score to Robert Eggers‘ “Nosferatu” (now in theaters) gets under your skin, and that’s exactly what composer Robin Carolan hoped to achieve. Carolan gathered 60 string players to play a “spiral ...
Yahoo

Finneas on Scoring ‘Disclaimer’ For Alfonso Cuarón – ‘I Didn’t Know How to Score For a String Quartet, So, I Had to Learn’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar-winning composer and award-winning songwriter Finneas is no stranger to writing music for film. The composer and songwriter ...
IndieWire

Hildur Gudnadottir Created a Custom-Built Instrument Dubbed a ‘String Prison’ for ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’

The Oscar-winning "Joker" composer expanded Arthur's inner anguish with a new instrument that functioned like a playable electric fence. Oscar-winning “Joker” composer Hildur Gudnadottir played an ...
TheWrap

Volker Bertelmann’s Key to Writing the Score for ‘Conclave’: Religious Music, But Nasty

He couldn’t avoid church music, but that doesn’t mean he had to totally embrace it. Writing the score for Edward Berger’s thriller “Conclave,” set inside the Vatican during the election of a new pope, ...
Rolling Stone

‘Annihilation’: Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury Talk Its Haunting Score

Annihilation boasts one of the most audacious climaxes in recent cinema history, and its music is just as haunting. The film finds director Alex Garland – whose directorial debut was 2015’s Ex Machina ...