Composer of the walking dead theme song11/15/2022 ![]() ![]() So rather than just letting that play out as an element in the story, I wanted to incorporate it into the score. There’s a fantasy element, and a rich orchestral heritage that comes with that, but also there’s an undeniable heavy metal aspect because the main character, Joe, is the lead singer of a metal band. I saw Knights of Badassdom recently, and the music style is completely different from what I’m used to from your score.īear McCreary: Well, in many ways Knights of Badassdom was sort of the dream project for me because it allowed me to combine all these different genres of music that I’ve grown up loving. John “Spartan” Nguyen (Nerd Reactor): Hey Bear, how’s it going?īear McCreary: It’s going well, how are you doing? With Knights of Badassdom currently in select theaters and available on demand, we had a chance to interview McCreary about his work in that movie, as well as geek out on music, The Last of Us, and zombies. The video below features McCreary playing a piece from Battlestar Galactica. For one thing, his first name is awesome! He has worked on composing music for TV series like Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Da Vinci’s Demons and Agents of SHIELD, just to name a few. I’m finishing a video game score for UbiSoft (Rainbow Six Siege) and hoping to squeeze in a few music projects before the start of FTWD season 2.I can personally say that Bear McCreary is one of my favorite composers. As the characters grow and develop with each episode, so does the music reflecting the various stages of that journey. One of the great opportunities with a TV-series, is that we can develop characters much deeper than any film ever could. I prefer music signatures to full-blown, traditional themes. ![]() Will the music change during the series as the epidemic spreads?ĭo the protagonists have a sort of personal musical them? Plus, did you choose to warn the audience in some way to prevent the attack of a zombie? He’s been wonderful to work with, as was Linda Cohen, our fantastic music supervisor. With TV-shows, the creative direction is mostly executed by the show runner, in this case Dave Erickson find here. In the choice of the soundtracks, how close was the relationship with the director? Much like any creative effort, it has to reflect our audience and our time, and support how the stories are told so they don’t feel contrived. You have to allow the audience to have some fun, without ever getting too predictable, it is a balancing act. How are we supposed to avoid these ploys and create something new? Sometimes in the modern horror movies the music and the audio effects are often overdone and used only to produce jumpscares, rather than to create the right atmosphere and make the audience live the same situation as the characters. My inspiration is more an accumulation of ALL the effective soundtracks i ever listened to, and my aim is to find new ways to reach that same effectiveness, which may include using a nod and a wink here and there. While being a big fan of the genre, i try to stay as un-influenced in my musical choices as possible. Much as in the original show, the central theme here is the collapse of civilization, told in a different setting and with a different constellation of characters (the patchwork, modular family).Īs compared to the classics, were you inspired by other soundtracks? Well, the audience is always ahead of the characters as they already know what will happen, but they don’t know HOW things will happen. What kind of feelings you believe the soundtrack should inspire in the audience during these moments? The zombie apocalypse has yet to happen in FTWD. We aim to be effective in the way music and sound is used in that regard. That being said, we of course share some psychological qualities with the original show. Different show…different musical approach. ![]() We made a conscious decision to start from scratch. Could you say you were inspired in some way by the original series to create the right air for this fiction? Or did you start from scratch with your idea? The atmosphere in FTWD is slightly different than the TWD’s one, even with the obvious similarities. We present an esclusive interview with the composer Paul Haslinger, who worked on the music for Fear The Walking Dead, the Walking Dead spin-ff recently aired on AMC. ![]()
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