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This album stands as a musical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel in its own right.
One iconic scene unfolds underwater. We see swimmers’ legs flailing, and not much else – but John Williams’ masterful audio signals the terror lurking below.
Scottish composer Patrick Doyle is an acclaimed composer of over 60 feature film scores.
David Lynch understood that sound was as important, and at times more so, than the images on screen.
Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
Horror films incorporate varied musical influences, but there are some things many scary soundtracks have in common.
Our new Music and Games 2023 Benchmark aims to establish the scope and scale of Australia’s game music sector.
Ludwig Göransson’s score immerses the audience in Oppenheimer’s inner emotional dilemma.
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.
Music and film have gone hand in hand ever since the release of ‘The Jazz Singer’ nearly 100 years ago.
Although a Grammy win for a TikTok musical was a first, musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.
A somewhat obscure 2003 science-fiction film has a luminous soundtrack, which brings surprising solace to a locked down world.
Creators of video game sound scores have more in common with classical composers than you might think - and they create dynamic sounds and music that cleverly respond to play.
Other than church, the pipe organ is often perceived as belonging in horror movies. But there’s more to the instrument that spans most musical genres.
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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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Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, York University, Canada
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Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor in Film Music Studies and Music Psychology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Music, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Visiting music lecturer, University of Winchester
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Head of Division, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
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Associate Professor of Practice, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Professor of Music, UMass Lowell