Film and TV
Wednesday to Stranger Things: Variety’s 10 music supervisors to watch (Variety)
Ahead of the 13th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, scheduled for March 5, Variety puts a spotlight on music supervisors who have been shaping the way viewers interact and consume music.
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards to honor Paul Williams (Variety)
Williams’ standards have been recorded by such decorated artists as Ray Charles, David Bowie, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Diana Ross, the Carpenters, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Luther Vandross and Willie Nelson, among others.
Poker Face music supervisor breaks down season 1’s best songs (Variety)
The first season put Golubić’s cross-section of skills to the test with hurdles like difficult clearances to on-camera musical performances and creation of original songs.
Gaslit Music Supervisor Maggie Phillips on testing playlists, working within a budget, and researching the sweet sound of the ’70s (Below the Line)
Below the Line recently spoke to Phillips, who explainsd how she worked within the show’s budget to find the perfect ’70s songs while managing never to distract from the show’s awards-worthy performances.
Top TV song last week: March 1st: “Run Away to Mars” by TALK | February 22nd: “Fuel to Fire” by Agnes Obel (Tunefind)
‘Run Away to Mars’ is first heard in the middle of a Grey’s Anatomy episode. Also, a Berlin based, Danish musician’s song – who’s no stanger to the world of sync, quickly climbs Tunefind’s chart.
“Let’s make sex music!”: How the unique Score for Stanley Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut was made (Far Out Magazine)
When Stanley Kubrick hired Jocelyn Pook to write the score for Eyes Wide Shut, she was a relatively unknown composer on the cusp of her big break.
Advertising
Newly released ALIBI toolkit lets Music Supervisors ‘Trailerize’ any track (Shoot Online)
‘Trailer Drum Overlays’ is an industry-first album of BPM-driven overlays in numerous drum types for use in creating TV, film and videogame trailers.
Gaming
Meet Stephanie Economou, the first-ever Grammy winner for best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media (Grammy)
The video game soundtrack composer was nominated for the inaugural Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games And Other Interactive Media award for her score to “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök” — a lavish expansion of the latest entry in Ubisoft’s series of historically inspired action role-playing games.
Business
Following the Grammys’ recognition of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Soundtrack, we explore the emergent music industry shift towards digital spaces (Mixdown Magazine)
Contemporary video games are a no brainer for the hard-to-crack Gen Z market. For music industry professionals, this means that they are the perfect vehicle through which new communities of musicians and fans, and opportunities for branding, can be built – in other words, ways to source untapped revenue.
SISTER Music Rebrands to ‘RESISTER’ to fight the lack of female and non-binary representation in the Music Industry (LBB Online)
Hannah Charman, co-founder, RESISTER says: “What we are trying to do is important and has to be tackled from both angles, from top executive decision makers being informed of the current disparity and making efforts to look at their creative teams.”
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