soundtrack

Ten years ago, American composer Michael Giacchino was picking up an Academy Award for his music in Up. His work was also heard in every TV lover’s living room, as the final season of Lost hit the small screen. A decade later, and the New…

Much has already been written about the evolution of music in film and its psychological and emotional impact on audiences. Academy Award winning film composer Bernard Hermann is best known for his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock on…

Javier Valez, a.k.a. Versal, has been engrossed in music since the age of three. From then, he developed into a prodigy, mastering several instruments by his mid-teens. At nineteen, he was conducting and arranging choir performances in San…

Musician Jared Dylan’s soundtrack to his short-film Consequence, features four brand-new tracks. The EP includes ‘Can’t Stop’, ‘Justified’, ‘Double Time’, and ‘Party Goes All Night’ whilst including a remix version of ‘Can’t Stop’, remixed…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, boys and ghouls, the season of the sinister. In addition to the hordes of trick or treaters and clown suit-selling pop-up shops, Dublin at this time of year hosts a number of horror themed events…

Finding Dory (2016) Original Score Soundtrack by Thomas Newman Thomas Newman delivers his signature range of musical colours and orchestral flair in one of 2016's most anticipated animated feature films, Finding Dory. Pixar giant…

John Carpenter Lost Themes II The great thing about pop culture is its nostalgia problem. Trends love to repeat themselves, and as regurgitation goes, the last few years have been pretty great, with the 80s getting a re-appraisal.…

Ennio Morricone provides a suitably menacing soundtrack to Tarantino's intimate return; The Hateful Eight. Set in the snowcapped mountains of Wyoming, the film recounts the tale of a bounty hunter and his prisoner forced to take shelter…

It only takes about five minutes of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables for you to realise that this is not setting out to be a realistic portrayal of the downfall of Al Capone. The gentle, childlike tune that plays out in the background of…

In games, music is often treated as its own layer, unmerged with the core development but having select phases of fit and adaptability. Because of this independent approach, it's often the case where audio design is sidelined as a lesser…