PANELISTs

Alex Seaver

Composer/Executive Music Producer

“He started playing me a little bit of Arcane, and telling me that he had been kind of cracking away for, like, three years, unbeknownst to many of us. When he asked us to get involved, we just kind of thought, this is a dream.”

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Christopher Lennertz

Composer/

Songwriter

Matt Bowen

Composer

“I’ve never gotten a note saying I’ve gone too far. If anything, it’s I can go farther. Eric [Kripke] usually says make me give you a note, and I never seem to get that if I tried.”

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Volker Bertelmann

Composer

“I use a little bit of ’70s thriller style. I’m a big fan of the piano, the high strings. That was one of the ingredients.”

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Gustavo Santaolalla

Composer

David Fleming

Composer

“I like to think the character of my portion of the score and the character of [Santaolalla’s] portions — we stumbled upon the same pawn shop in the post-apocalypse.”

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Bear McCreary

Composer

“How can you not have fun making music for Middle-earth?”

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Siddhartha Khosla

Composer

“I wanted to make something incredibly cinematic. It was like the goal. I was like, I want this to feel like film.”

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Mick Giacchino

Composer

“I created a trash percussion drum kit … just made out of metal trash cans and buckets, to try to get a little bit of the city trash sound and bring it to Oz.”

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Theodore Shapiro

Composer

“There’s a lot of percussion in the show, and it all sort of comes from him beating a piano and, you know, making loops out of it. And, just seeing just how much juice we could squeeze out of that.”

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Tom Howe

Composer

“When the song starts, the score is still in, actually, and the song’s filtered, and then it turns into very heavy sounds because the train is approaching and that sort of ramps up to give you that feeling of the [tension] whether he’s gonna jump or whether he’s gonna get pulled back in.”

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Jung Jaeil

Composer

“[In Season 2] I went for the traditional music, which included quirky or weird noises. We used a lot of weird vocal sounds as a well as strange instruments to create this mood.”