PANELISTS:

Brian Tyler

Composer

Breton Vivian

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

"I got really interested in what the music of what we know as the West, which is immigrants coming over, people that are cast-offs looking for a better home. So instead of having a Stradivarius playing a beautiful violin, it would be a fiddle from Greece or Armenia..." Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Tim Phillips

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"We came up with an ulterior plan which ended up becoming the sound of the show, which was to build her into a huge series of sampler instruments which she then named the Pollytron.” Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Rachael Moore

Music Producer

MODERATOR: Peter White

“I’ve been in the music community [in Nashville] going on a decade. I certainly know country music. I certainly know the country music audience there. They are two gods in that town, for sure." Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Siddhartha Khosla

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"At the end of the finale last year, we had a bunch of yodelers come in. I wouldn’t even bother trying — they did that sh*t and it was insane; it was so cool." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Jack Douglas

Music Producer

David Johansen

Self

MODERATOR: Peter White

“I do live shows, they go up into the ether and they’re gone. So this is like a document of who I was at that moment.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Tom Howe

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

“Shrinking is like trying to sit in a band while thinking of the sounds of California .. think of ’60s Beach Boys-type California sound." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Stephen Barton

Composer

Frederik Wiedmann

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“I think about four hours in I was literally dead, absolutely. I was doing seven days weeks, 16-hour days, I hadn’t seen my family. It was absolutely brutal.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

John Powell

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

“I often treat action films like dance sequences. I treated every time I saw Michael moving as a dance.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Tom Howe

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

"We met for breakfast and we got on and he invited me to his house to hang out. So I flew from [Los Angeles] to Devon, which is in the middle of nowhere in England, and stayed there for 10 days with Marcus. Considering I had only met him once for breakfast, it was quite interesting,” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Bear McCreary

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“I couldn’t have just completely unrelated themes and I couldn’t have the same theme. So actually, Halbrand’s theme is Sauron’s theme played backwards…" Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Tom Mizer

Composer/Songwriter

Curtis Moore

Composer/Songwriter

MODERATOR: Peter White

"We knew there was a big musical coming up. ... So we got the assignment, [and] we were like, ‘Wait, what?'" Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Cristobal Tapia de Veer

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D’Alessandro

“I was trying to find a place where I feel like a savage at some point. And then to me, this translated with the characters because, to me, the [characters] are, in a way, savages.” Read Story Here

PANELIST:

Kristen Anderson-Lopez

EP/Songwriter

Robert Lopez

EP/Songwriter

Christophe Beck

Composer

MODERATOR: Anthony D'Alessandro

"The score takes a more contemporary acoustic rock approach but it’s also not afraid to go to different places as needed." Read Story Here

PANELISTS:

Brian Tyler

Composer

Breton Vivian

Composer

MODERATOR: Peter White

"I got really interested in what the music of what we know as the West, which is immigrants coming over, people that are cast-offs looking for a better home. So instead of having a Stradivarius playing a beautiful violin, it would be a fiddle from Greece or Armenia..." Read Story Here