I talk industry professionals who, on a daily basis, work with music and visuals. I’m talking about composers but I’m also talking about the editors, music supervisors, directors and anyone else who’s involved with the synchronous process of pairing of audio and visuals.
My mission is to get under the skin of their recent projects, understand their relationship to these magical media and glean insights into what makes them tick and what makes them great at what they do.
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I talk industry professionals who, on a daily basis, work with music and visuals. I’m talking about composers but I’m also talking about the editors, music supervisors, directors and anyone else who’s involved with the synchronous process of pairing of audio and visuals.
My mission is to get under the skin of their recent projects, understand their relationship to these magical media and glean insights into what makes them tick and what makes them great at what they do.
12 – His Dark Materials – Finding the Musical Tone with Stephen Haren
Sync Music Matters Podcast
1 hour 14 minutes 57 seconds
3 years ago
12 – His Dark Materials – Finding the Musical Tone with Stephen Haren
In this episode of Sync Music Matters I’m talking to Producer, Editor and Post Production specialist Stephen Haren about working on His Dark Materials and other award winning TV series and films.
Stephen wears a number of creative hats so I was keen to understand how that informs his application of music.
We go under the skin of His Dark Materials, the series based on the books by Philip Pullman.
Stephen talks about the active role he played in re-temping the series so that music had more gravity to it.
He used temp score by the likes of Trent Reznor (The Social Network), Marco Beltrami (A Quiet Place) but also preprepared cue ideas provided by the series composer Lorne Balf.
Temping movies with the composers own score is something I chatted about with editor of The Crown, Paulo Pandolpho in Episode 8
We also go under the skin and talk about the very different approach to soundtracking Northern Soul, the Elaine Constantine film starring Steve Coogan. The soundtrack for which was made up entirely of original songs.
As with a lot of my interviews we talk about the lack of melody in modern film score. I chatted to Isobel Waller Bridge about it in episode 5 and Nanita Dessai in episode 8. Nainita offered directors’ reticence to commit emotionally as a reason. Stephen has some fascinating alternative theories!
We also chat about the pitching process for composers for major TV series and films, the revealing process of watching audience previews during the production process. And Stephen and I share our love for the epic guitar riffs of the late Dimebag Darrell of the band Pantera
Stephen Haren's Website
His Dark Materials Soundtrack
Some of Stephen Haren's Musical Influences
Logan Soundtrack
Social Network Soundtrack
Mindhunter Soundtrack
Northern Soul Soundtrack
Johnny Dankworth
The Good The Bad and The Ugly Filmscore
Bernard Herrman
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Jerry Goldsmith - Alien (Original Score)
Jim Hustwit is a music producer and composer specialising in trailer music, production music and music for TV ads
In Episode 13 of the Sync Music Matters Podcast - Interview with Cristobal Tapia de Veer, I talk about his work scoring the likes of the 2016 film The Girl with All The Gifts, Black Mirror’s Black Museum, and White Lotus seasons 1 and 2, for which he won a ‘Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music’.
Sync Music Matters Podcast
I talk industry professionals who, on a daily basis, work with music and visuals. I’m talking about composers but I’m also talking about the editors, music supervisors, directors and anyone else who’s involved with the synchronous process of pairing of audio and visuals.
My mission is to get under the skin of their recent projects, understand their relationship to these magical media and glean insights into what makes them tick and what makes them great at what they do.
