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Advice, tips, and techniques on film / TV / game / media music composition, production, and industry. Featuring industry guests offering insights into their processes. Brought to you by Jonny Armandary of soundtrack.academy
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#43 Jack Hughes: Give Yourself Time
Jack Hughes is the director of the newly formed Northern Film Orchestra, based in Manchester, UK. Their mission is to break down the barriers to entry...
#42 Ben Osterhouse: Creating Sample Libraries
If you recognise the name “Ben Osterhouse” that’s likely because you’ve used one of his sample libraries.
For a while they were the best kept se...
#41 Gunnard Doboze: Write As Much Music As Humanly Possible
This week’s guest is the wonderful Gunnard Doboze.
Gunnard has scored some of the most challenging type of documentary subject matter that you’r...
#40 Steven Melin: Pick ONE THING And Do It Consistently For At Least 6 Months
If you recognise the name “Steven Melin” it could be from one of many different places!
Steven is primarily a video game composer - and in the s...
#39 Nainita Desai: Develop Your Unique Voice
Nainita Desia has achieved so much in the last few years that I don’t even know where to begin.
So let’s just start with 2019 - she was the IFMC...
#38 Jamie Salisbury: Say "Yes" To Everything (...Within Reason!)
Jamie Salisbury is a composer who loves keeping his career as diverse as possible. From production music to music for live events with everything in b...
#37 Olajide Paris: Once You Get A Job, Do A GREAT Job
Welcome back to the soundtrack.academy podcast after some time off!
Here's the plan for 2020: the podcast is coming back regularly...
#36 Miriam Sternlicht : Trust Your Instincts
Miriam Sternlicht is a media composer who’s actually fairly new to the game, but I think you’re really going to get a lot out of this episode as I’m s...
#35 How To Quit your Job & Pursue Music – with Rob Hicks
So many composers dream of being able to quit their day job to pursue music.
Maybe you do too?
The problem is : taking that leap of faith...
Michael Kruk : How to Write Music for TV & Documentaries
Michael Kruk is a composer specialising in documentaries, having worked extensively with the BBC on a number of their programmes including those narra...
33 Bankey Ojo: Just Get On With It - You’ll Never FEEL Ready
Composer Bankey Ojo shares some advice that is almost GUARANTEED to help you find more composing projects. Listen in to this week’s episode now!
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32 Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres : Be Flexible & Be Collaborative
Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres lives and breathes the creative life. Talking about her process made me desperately want to be a fly-on-the-wall while she w...
31 Jonny Armandary: Good Film Music is About Purpose & Creativity
Hear how soundtrack.academy was born, and the film music process I’ve been teaching, practising, and developing since 2008.
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30 Chris Wirsig: Be Consistent & Stick to Your Goals
Chris Wirsig is a composer and music supervisor specialising in dark intense soundscapes. His advice on specialising in a niche and what music librar...
29: Bonnie Janofsky: Working With Live Musicians
Bonnie Janofsky is one of those multi-skilled musicians that seems to be able to turn her hand to absolutely anything. Originally coming from a perfo...
28 Mathieu Karsenti: Make Music As Often As You Can
Growing up in the south of France studying fine art and design before moving into music composition has given Mathieu Karsenti a really unique unders...
27 Suad Bushnaq: Talent is Not Enough
Described by none other than Hans Zimmer himself as an “incredible artist”, Suad Bushnaq is an an award-winning Arab-Canadian film and concert compose...
26 Jenny J Nam: Don’t Be Flaky, Have Discipline, And Be Open Minded
In this week’s episode Jenny J Nam discusses the differences and crossovers between performance, composition, and songwriting.
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25 Stephen Edwards: Know Someone Who Can Hire You
From working as a staff piano player at Disney, and session musician for Mike Post, to scoring some of the most iconic movies, and now writing and di...
24 Oscar Fogelström: Have a Long Term Plan & It’s Hard to Fail
Oscar Fogelström is a two time Swedish Grammy winner, has had over 100 million streams on Spotify, and has worked with Academy Award nominee Lasse Ha...
23 Sian Elizabeth Selway: Be Absolutely Sure of What You Want
Sian Elizabeth Selway got into film music in what many would consider the wrong order - she gathered her industry experience first and then went to s...
22 Tristan Noon: Be Easy to Work With
Tristan Noon is a media composer, orchestrator, and music preparer. His list of recent music placements is literally pages long, and as an orchestrat...
21 Leanna Primiani: Figure Out What You Love…And Do It!
Leanna Primiani used to be a conductor working at the highest level, but then discovered a love for film composition. In today’s episode we’re going...
20 Michael "MCR" Cristian: Don't Look Up, Look Down!
Trailer music composer Michael Cristian, better known as "MCR", has had his music placed in all kinds of trailers, TV shows, and commercials.
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19 Edith Mudge: Stop Doubting Yourself
Edith Mudge is about to turn you green with envy! Let’s hear what she has to say about the pros and cons of working as a SALARIED in house composer......
18 Sean Staples: Learn, Practise, and Write (…a LOT!)
Sean Staples is here to talk about how his diverse musical and entrepreneurial background has influenced his career path as a media composer, Nashvil...
17 Sharon Farber: Embrace Who You Are
Four time Emmy nominated composer and VP of the Alliance for Women Film Composers Sharon Farber joins me this week. We explore both her film music and...
16 Giovanni Rotondo: Be Open & Rely on Others
In today’s episode Italian composer Giovanni Rotondo talks about how foreign credits don’t have the same impact as local ones, and how he’s ended up c...
15 Daisy Coole: Find a Friend
Daisy Coole is a founder of Two Twenty Two - a film, documentary, and media composition company - and a huge advocate of composers working as a team....
14 Julian Guidetti: Learn to Compartmentalise
Julian Guidetti's background is mostly in music for advertising. He's worked on countless campaigns as part of a full post-production team. Listen to...
13 Daniel Suett: Don’t Have A Plan
Daniel Suett was handpicked out of literally thousands of people by Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Junkie XL, Jacob Shea, Russell Emmanuel, and Steve Kofsk...
12 Claire Batchelor: Perseverance & Confidence
Claire Batchelor - a media composer specialising in both film and production music - joins me for this week's episode.
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11 Jordan Killiard: Music for Audiobooks
This week’s guest, Jordan Killiard, works in a really interesting, and hugely overlooked field: creating music for audiobooks.
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10 Neil Spencer Bruce: Find A Job You Hate
For this week’s episode I’m joined by the multi-talented Neil Spencer Bruce.
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09 James Asher: Have Fun With What You Do
This week’s guest is James Asher, who has a fascinating background in all kinds of music, but with a particularly interesting focus on world music.
08 Brian Stephen Adams: Seize Opportunities
My guest this week is Brian Stephen Adams. Brian runs a studio in Worthing, UK helping people develop their ideas into full tracks. More recently, he’...
07 Francesco Berta: Eliminate Distractions
Italian composer Francesco Berta joins me this week to talk about his views on how social media steals your time, how he learned to compose as a self-...
06 Michael John Mollo: Understand Your Abilities
I’m excited to be joined by Michael John Mollo, who has worked closely with John Powell, Michael Giacchino, and Giorgio Moroder.
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05 Chris Presswell: A Director's Advice on Composer Collaboration
This week Chris Presswell, film writer/director, shares his views on the relationship between director and composer.
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04 Si McGrath: Inspire Those Around You
This week I’m joined by Si McGrath, a producer, sound designer, and composer who has worked in many areas of the music industry. A particularly intere...