The Big Score

The Big Score

Welcome to "The Big Score", a Hollywood Records original series, where you’re invited on an exclusive, behind the scenes journey inside the minds of some of culture's most innovative composers in show business. Featuring Siddhartha Khosla (Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building), Jeff Ament (FX’s limited series Under the Banner of Heaven), Pilou (Searchlight Picture’s NOT OKAY), Daniel Pemberton (Searchlight’s See How They Run and 20th Century’s Amsterdam), Amanda Jones (National Geographic’s Super/Natural), and Carter Burwell (Searchlight’s Banshees of Inisherin). Subscribe to the Big Score for a remarkable front row seat to the origin story behind some of Film and TV’s most iconic musical moments.

Episodes

Marcelo Zarvos on Searchlight’s Flamin’ Hot | The Big Score

June 14, 2023 • 6 mins
In this tasty episode of The Big Score, composer Marcelo Zarvos talks about creating the music for Searchlight's Flamin' Hot and working with director Eva Longoria to honor Mexican American tradition by making the score culturally specific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Tom Howe on National Geographic’s Secrets of the Elephants | The Big Score

May 24, 2023 • 1 min
In this episode, explore the music from National Geographic’s Secrets of the Elephants with composer Tom Howe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Kris Bowers & Michael Abels on Searchlight’s Chevalier | The Big Score

May 2, 2023 • 4 mins
In this episode, we talk with Kris Bowers and Michael Abels about why they consider Joseph Bologne, Chevalier De Saint-George an 18th-century rock star, “The Prince of his day” and how calling Chevalier the Black Mozart misses the point of how influential the composer, violin virtuoso and conductor was before he was erased from history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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DISNEY'S FOR SCORES: Simon Franglen

April 21, 2023 • 34 mins
Host Jon Burlingame sits down with Grammy-winning composer Simon Franglen to discuss his epic score for Avatar: The Way of Water. Simon recalls the singular experience of working with director James Cameron and the tight-knit Avatar family, how sounds of Earth inspired him in the creation of music for another planet, and what the return to Pandora means to him.  Follow the For Scores podcast wherever you stream your podcasts. Lea...
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Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez on Hulu’s Up Here | The Big Score

March 28, 2023 • 6 mins
In this episode of The Big Score, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awarding-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (“Frozen,” “Coco,” “WandaVision,” “Book of Mormon”) discuss the music behind their new Hulu series, “UP HERE,” the backstory to their own love story and how, as co-creators and first time Executive Producers of the show alongside the writer of “tick, tick…BOOM!” and the director of “Hamilton,” they wer...
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Paul Leonard-Morgan on Boston Strangler | The Big Score

March 21, 2023 • 4 mins
In this episode of The Big Score, composer/producer, Paul Leonard-Morgan, reveals that his mother told him, “don’t go into music, you’ll never make a career of it.” But, in fact, he has made a successful and award-winning career out of it. In creating the score for 20th Century Studios’ “Boston Strangler” airing on Hulu, Paul found great depth in the lead character “Loretta,” the female journalist who helped connect the murders, cr...
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Caroline Shaw on FX’s Fleishman Is In Trouble

February 28, 2023 • 5 mins
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, creator of the acclaimed FX series, Fleishman Is In Trouble, said composer Caroline Shaw’s score “isn’t just the sound of the show; it’s the soul of it.”   In this episode of The Big Score, the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning Shaw discusses her writing process, the deeply affecting power of the voice and the challenge of   finding a chord progression that says “I hate you, I love you, I need you.”  Learn mo...
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Nicolas Godin on National Geographic Documentary Films's 'Fire Of Love'

February 14, 2023 • 5 mins
"To create a great song, you have to open the door to chaos” reveals musician and composer, Nicolas Godin, in this episode of The Big Score. Composing the score for National Geographic’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Fire of Love” about husband and wife French volcanologists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, Godin reveals how he skipped the “obvious” when creating the ambient soundtrack. Instead of bombastic sounds, he imagined himself in ...
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Simon Franglen on 20th Century’s ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ [Full Interview]

February 7, 2023 • 23 mins
In this episode of The Big Score Grammy Award winner and composer, Simon Franglen, takes listeners behind the music of Avatar: The Way of Water, with water being one of the main inspirations for how Simon deftly created an ambient piece of music matching the stunning visuals of the film. But, creating unique water sounds was just one part of the process, tune in to hear how Simon created a new instrument, printed from his sketch on...
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Austin Wintry on 20th Century Games's 'Aliens: Fireteam Elite'

February 7, 2023 • 4 mins
Tune in to this week’s episode of The Big Score to hear how GRAMMY-nominated composer, Austin Wintry, pulled together the music for the ALIENS: Fireteam Elite videogame. Talking about the differences between scoring for movies and videogames, Austin reveals that scoring for games can be more dynamic as players become emotionally attached. Speaking to the sound of the score, Austin recalls how he used a Renaissance-era instrument, c...
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Simon Franglen on 20th Century’s ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’

January 12, 2023 • 5 mins
In this episode of The Big Score Grammy Award-winner and composer, Simon Franglen, takes listeners behind the music of Avatar: The Way of Water, with water being one of the main inspirations for how Simon deftly created an ambient piece of music matching the stunning visuals of the film. A longtime collaborator with director, James Cameron, Simon reveals how he came to work with Cameron on Titanic, winning a Grammy for “My Heart Wi...
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Carter Burwell on Searchlight’s 'The Banshees Of Inisherin' [Full Interview]

December 22, 2022 • 14 mins
Academy Award®-nominated composer Carter Burwell’s score for Searchlight Pictures’ The Banshees of Inisherin stands out as a separate character in this much buzzed about film, already an awards contender. Tune in to hear Carter personally detail the behind-the-scenes creation of the music, recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Burwell worked closely with the film’s writer and director, Martin McDonagh, to bring his writing ...
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Mato Wayuhi on FX’s 'Reservation Dogs'

December 20, 2022 • 5 mins
For composer, rapper, and singer Mato Wayuhi, the challenge to “redefine the definition of indigenous art” for the Hulu series Reservation Dogs was one he was more than ideally suited to take on. In this episode of The Big Score, the form USC film student from South Dakota talks about how his Oglala Lakota culture heavily influences the gritty sounds he creates to capture the thematic qualities of the show, how technology helped hi...
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Daniel Pemberton on New Regency’s 'Amsterdam'

November 29, 2022 • 4 mins
“This score blows!” according to its creator, EMMY® Award-winning and Academy® Award-nominated composer Daniel Pemberton who, in this episode of "The Big Score", is giving fans a look behind the inspiration for the score to 20th Century Studios’ film Amsterdam. Taking the cue from the film’s main characters, three unsung heroes who changed the course of history, Pemberton recalls how he turned to the “unsung heroes of the orchestra...
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Amanda Jones on National Geographic’s 'Super/Natural'

November 22, 2022 • 5 mins
For Emmy-nominated composer, Amanda Jones, the challenge to create a sonic universe to match NatGeo’s Super/Natural series filled with the world’s most extraordinary animals, was a welcome one. For this score which she describes as “percussive heavy, very organic, guttural and raw, and a little bit weird,” Amanda details how she utilized a vast array of instruments including Afro Venezuelan and Afro Columbian percussion, wooden flu...
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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad on Onyx Collective’s 'Reasonable Doubt'

November 15, 2022 • 29 mins
In this episode of "The Big Score", we go behind the scenes of Onyx Collective’s first scripted series Reasonable Doubt with composers Adrian Younge of Jazz is Dead and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest. In this exclusive behind the scenes look at how the music, Adrian & Ali detail their creative process, enduring friendship and what it was like working with series creator Raamla Mohamed. The composer duo touch on how th...
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Drum & Lace and Ian Hultquist on 'Rosaline'

November 9, 2022 • 4 mins
In this episode, husband and wife composing team, Drum & Lace (aka Sofia Hultquist) and Ian Hultquist pull back the curtain on how they created a score for Rosaline, a fresh and comedic twist on Shakespeare’s classic love story Romeo & Juliet, that compositionally feels modern but uses a mix of instrumentation from the film's period including harpsichord, lute, wooden flutes, renaissance drums and more. Notes the pair,“One of the m...
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Carter Burwell on Searchlight’s 'The Banshees Of Inisherin'

October 25, 2022 • 4 mins
Academy Award®-nominated composer Carter Burwell’s score for Searchlight Pictures’ The Banshees of Inisherin stands out as a separate character in this much buzzed about film, already an awards contender. Tune in to hear Carter personally detail the behind-the-scenes creation of the music, recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Burwell worked closely with the film’s writer and director, Martin McDonagh, to bring his writing ...
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Daniel Pemberton on Searchlight’s 'See How They Run'

October 11, 2022 • 4 mins
Peel back the many layers of creativity from EMMY Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated composer, Daniel Pemberton, as he describes how he reimagined the sounds of the 50’s but in very unconventional ways to create the score for murder-mystery film, See How They Run, based in 1950’s London. Pemberton pulled out all the stops in creating the sounds of the era without being too literal. Incorporated into the 70-piece orchestra ar...
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Pilou on Searchlight’s 'Not Okay'

October 6, 2022 • 5 mins
Go behind the scenes with composer Pierre-Philippe Cote (a.k.a. Pilou) as he discusses his inspiration for the soundtrack to Hulu’s NOT OKAY, a social media satire that exposes opposite ends of the moral spectrum of internet fame. Starring Zoey Deutch as an aimless aspiring writer with no friends, no romantic prospects, and — worst of all — no followers, who fakes an Instagram-friendly trip to Paris in the hopes of boosting her soc...
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