Sound design approaches in modern scores

SETTING THE STANDARD FOR MODERN SURVIVAL HORROR GAMES IN 2008, THE FIRST DEAD SPACE ENTRY WALKED SO THAT SPIRITUAL SUCCESSORS LIKE ALIEN: ISOLATION COULD RUN. WE SPEAK TO COMPOSER JASON GRAVES AND LEARN HOW HIS TENSE, ANXIOUS SCORE CRAFTED THE PERFECT ATMOSPHERE OF STRESS AND FEAR

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John Williams Jaws – Original Motion Picture Score Hollywood Studio Symphony/John Williams Backlot Music (digital) / Mondo (vinyl) 54 mins It’s half a century since audiences were first left terrified

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When I first heard the classical music of North India, my musical world shifted on its axis. I was in the cinema, watching Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, which had just opened in the UK and was takin