 Tubular Bells. Ave Satani. The theme from Jaws. Each of these songs bring to mind scary images and help underscore the mood of the films they represent. All movies rely on the soundscape and music, but none more so than Horror films which can creep the audience out with a simple shriek of a violin or the clang of a piano. The WonderCon panel “The Music That Makes You Scream” brought together composers from film and TV to talk about the music behind the madness. Hosted by Chandler Polling of WHite Bear PR and Anne Cecere of BMI, the panelists included Dino Meneghin (MTV’s Teen Wolf), Frederick Wiedmann (Hostel: Part 3, Return to House on Haunted Hill, Mirrors 2), Anton Sanko (The Possession, Rabbit Hole), Tyler Bates (Halloween, The Devil’s Rejects, Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen). They spoke about a variety of topics including what films influenced them, how their process works and what truly makes them tick. You can listen to the full panel after the jump! Read more on WonderCon: The Music That Makes You Scream…
 One of the best things about attending SXSW is getting to meet awesome people like Reza Safinia. A former record producer, Safinia used his experience to craft the score for Snap, combining industrial and atmospheric sounds with dubstep, a genre that has become massively popular in the last few years. In our brief chat, we talked about everything from his experience on the film, what it’s like to compose for indie films, our favorite pieces of movie music, and I even got him to break down dubstep for me. Check it out after the jump! Read more on SXSW: Interview with ‘Snap’ composer Reza Safinia…
 Despite the reception the film seemed to get from the top critics and even some of our own staff, Les Miserables was an unquestionable hit at the box office and garnered 8 Oscar nominations, winning 3 (Supporting Actress, Sound Mixing, and Makeup and Hairstyling). The cast album was also one of the best selling soundtracks in years and the producers have decided to give us even more goodness as a two disc edition of the score will be released on March 19th. As many of you noted songs like “Do You Hear the People Sing?” and “A Little Fall of Rain” were excluded from the original 20 track recording released in December, but they’ve been included in this version. View the track list after the jump!
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 One of the best things about Sundance is that you get to meet every matter of person involved in indie film. Miriam Cutler has been composing music for documentary films since 1988, authoring over 100 scores. She’s also been a longtime advisor in the Sundance Composers Lab, as well as a long time board member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists. This year she’s back at Sundance having done the score for the documentary American Promise. We sat down at the hp Lounge to chat about the film, how the film scoring process works, and what she most enjoys about the work. Check out the interview after the jump! Read more on SUNDANCE: Interview with ‘American Promise’ composer Miriam Cutler…
 If you’re anything like me, you’re still recovering from the Oscar nominations a few days ago. Well, it’s also that time of the year again folks…time for my annual Awards Circuit tradition of talking about the best that the year had to offer in terms of scores and soundtracks! While I didn’t fall in love with too many this year, I still consider it a very solid year for film, musically. One composer in particular had a massive year, but overall the quality was spread around pretty evenly in 2012. I began compiling this last late last month, so I’m finishing this with the knowledge of what wound up with Academy Award nominations, but this only reflects my personal tastes. Below you’ll find my picks for the 10 best movie scores and 10 best movie soundtracks of 2012. Let’s get started, shall we?
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 With The Dark Knight Rises right around the corner, the excitement for the film has almost reached a fever pitch. If you are looking for something to get you even more pumped, the good folks at Empire Online have got their hands on the entire score to the latest Batman film and are streaming it in its entirety. Hans Zimmer’s score is naturally dark and brooding, and if you listen closely you can hear the call backs to the previous Batman themes. Check out the player after the jump for the full score!
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 Whether it’s his Oscar winning music from The Lion King or his energetic tunes for Sherlock Homes, Hans Zimmer has crafted some really great scores over the years. Now he’s scheduled for his next big challenge. According to The Hollywood Reporter Zimmer has signed on to score the Zack Snyder directed, Christopher Nolan produced, Superman reboot titled Man of Steel. The reboot, which stars Henry Cavill as Superman, will take us back to the character’s origin and his first battle with Zod (Michael Shannon).
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 Music is an integral part of any good film, not that this comes as a surprise to any of you. I like to pay tribute to this aspect of cinema with a list of the best scores and soundtracks of the year. Last year, a number of flicks had superior scores and soundtracks, and I wanted to highlight my admiration of each. There’s only one film in 2011 that overlapped in both categories, unlike in 2010 when I had a few more like that, but many were contenders for that sort of dual honor. There’s a really nice mesh of musical stylings to be found below, and I hope you all enjoy the list. Of course, definitely let me know your picks at the end (as is always the case in a piece of this ilk), but for now, let’s get on with it and look into the best movie scores and soundtracks of 2011!
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The Year-In-Review continues with some non-traditional citations on certain films and performances that did or did not make head way in 2011. What are your choices for “Limited Performance” of the year? or Most Underrated Film? or share what you thought about the Year-in-TV as I dish out my favorites in Television Drama and Comedies. Read more after jump. Read more on Year-In-Review: Editor’s Specialty Awards…
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