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The Estonian composer has written some of the world’s most performed contemporary classical music. Many fans may not realize how deep the religious influences on his work are.
Differences between film directors or television producers and composers are not new. In traditional audiovisual collaboration, the composer falls under the leadership of the director or showrunner.
The music of Rosemary Brown, a British musician and self-presented homemaker, demonstrates specific knowledge which far exceeds conventional notions of talent across a range of styles.
While noble status came with advantages, it was also considered inappropriate for a baroness to perform professionally. Without a long public presence, Delphine von Schauroth faded from memory.
Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
The new note will be sustained for a relatively ‘brief’ two years.
For their “last single” Now and Then, the remaining 2023 Beatles kept John Lennon’s chorus, but changed where it fell. This necessary “repair” meant losing some of Lennon’s most touching passages.
The famous composer certainly didn’t have haunted houses in mind when he wrote the piece.
Our new Music and Games 2023 Benchmark aims to establish the scope and scale of Australia’s game music sector.
What does ‘The White Lotus’ sound like? Both seasons 1 and 2 are characterized by an unsettling blurring of boundaries between music and sound design.
AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music will make more money for giant streaming services at the expense of artists.
Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.
From the first frame of the theme song, it is clear craft and imagination are deeply valued throughout the show’s entire soundtrack.
Paul McCartney appears to compose the smash hit ‘Get Back’ from thin air in a clip from the Beatles documentary of the same name — but experts propose at least eight other factors behind it.
‘Flight 752 Elegies’ was composed for santur, percussion and choir, including a soprano singer, and can be viewed online.
Rising to prominence in The Exorcist soundtrack and the first album from Richard Branson’s Virgin Records, the layered sounds of Tubular Bells became a template for further innovation.
Mzilikazi Khumalo was a brilliant linguist with a stellar career in music. These achievements are extraordinary considering the obstacles he faced throughout his career.
As a concert pianist, Scott Davie has been searching for the spirit of Chopin since his teens. It’s taken him to Paris and Majorca and channeled tantalising notes through time.
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Professor of Music, Carleton University
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Composer and Lecturer in Screen Composition, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Birmingham-Southern College
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Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, Kingston University
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Associate Professor Music Composition, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Violin - Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Music Technology, Indiana University
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Research Fellow, Creativity and Wellbeing Hallmark Research Initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
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Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design, University of Technology Sydney
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DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford