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Ep 36 Art of the Score: Interstellar

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2025/10/14

Time dilation is a funny thing. For many, we understand there’s been a bit of a gap between episodes. For us, however, it’s been mere minutes since our last appearance – but thanks for sticking around nonetheless, as we’re finally back to discuss Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan, time, and Interstellar. Join us as we chat all things organs, pianos, space travel, and answer the question of whether Interstellar is Zimmer’s greatest score of

Ep 29 Art of the Score: The Film Music of Nick Cave &...

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2025/10/14

Episode 29 marks Art of the Score’s first ever live episode, recorded in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Exploring the film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road), the live talk also preluded a concert later that week where the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra played Cave and Ellis’s music as arranged by our very own Nicholas Buc. Join us for a very special live episode as we try and find out

Ep 28 Art of the Score: The Empire Strikes Back Part 2

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2025/10/14

In Episode 28, we conclude our time with The Empire Strikes Back, and our exploration of perhaps the best Star Wars film and score ever made. In this episode, we make our way through some remaining themes and motifs, as well as the major action setpieces of the film, and ask the biggest question of all: is this the best film score ever written?https://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2019/8/31/episode-28-the-empire-strikes-back-part-2

Ep 27 Art of the Score: The Empire Strikes Back Part 1

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2025/10/14

In Episode 27, we finally return to the world of Star Wars with the film and the score that many consider to be the series’ best: The Empire Strikes Back, or Episode V to its friends. Director Irvin Kershner created with Empire unquestionably the best-looking Star Wars film, but does John Williams’ music live up to the challenge? We think so. In the first of a two-part examination of the Empire score, we look at the new and returning themes for the galaxy far, far

Ep 25 Art of the Score: Blade Runner

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2025/10/14

In Episode 25, we’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. A guest synth expert to tell us all about the great Yamaha CS-80’s attack and delay, and the shoulders of its Orion filter envelopes. We’ve watched Vangelis glitter in the dark, near Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture. All these moments will be recorded in time, on podcast recording equipment, and released online, like tears in rain. https://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2019/2/25/episode-25-blade-runner

Ep 17 Art of the Score: Gladiator

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2025/10/14

In the year 2000, the sword-and-sandal epic was revived, with Russell Crowe trebucheted to international stardom as the star of Ridley Scott’s hugely successful film, Gladiator. But fame was also found for Hans Zimmer, today the biggest music man in Hollywood, but who along with Australian composer and singer Lisa Gerrard wrote some of the most influential film music in decades for Gladiator. In Episode 17, we take a look at what makes Zimmer’s sound so pervasive, how Lisa Gerrard’s voice

Ep 16 Art of the Score: The Force Awakens - Part 2

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2025/10/14

In Episode 16, we finish our look at Williams’ seventh entry into the Star Wars universe by looking at what’s returned and what hasn’t. We take apart the reoccurring Star Wars themes and how they’re used in The Force Awakens, and make a number of bold and possibly a little reckless predictions for The Last Jedi (then unreleased). https://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2018/5/11/episode-16-the-force-awakens-part-2

Ep 15 Art of the Score: The Force Awakens - Part 1

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2025/10/14

In Episode 15, we return to the galaxy far, far away and take a look at how the musical landscape of Star Wars changed in the almost 40 years between A New Hope and The Force Awakens. In the first of a two-part episode we look at Rey’s Theme, Kylo Ren’s motifs, and The March (or is that the fugue?) of the Resistance. Recorded last year in eager anticipation of The Last Jedi, we’re finally getting this episode to you just in time for its release on Blu-Rey (see what we did there?), so sit back and

Episode 11: There Will Be Blood

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2025/10/14

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s relentlessly dark exploration of Daniel Plainview, an American oil baron, now comfortably sits among the greatest films of the century so far. Yet Jonny Greenwood’s score - who is best known from his days on guitar for Radiohead - may well be even greater and more original still. In this episode of Art of the Score, we take a look at Greenwood’s incredibly unusual music, and with the help of There Will Be Blood expert and conductor Hugh Brunt, take apart

Ep 9 Art of the Score: Star Wars - Part 3

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2025/10/14

In our third and final Star Wars episode, we take a look at some of the lesser known cues that round out this incredible score. We discuss the giant bantha in the room: the musical influences that inspired Williams and the temp music that helped to shape some of his artistic choices. Finally, we take a whirlwind tour of the action music, explore the groovy Cantina Band tunes and debate whether Star Wars is in fact the greatest film score of all time. Is

Ep 8 Art of the Score: Star Wars - Part 2

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2025/10/14

In our second Star Wars episode, marking the fortieth anniversary of the film, we complete our exploration of the themes for this landmark film and score from 1977. We take on the franchise’s most defining melody: the Force Theme, and also throw in the Rebel Fanfare, Vader’s motif, and the Death Star, before ending on that eternal question: what links Star Wars and Metallica? https://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/6/9/episode-8-star-wars-part-2

Ep 7 Art of the Score: Star Wars - Part 1

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2025/10/14

Forty years ago today, in 1977, the film universe was turned upside down by a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars may have changed the film industry forever, but John Williams’ score might just be as influential for the film music landscape. In this episode, our first of three on Star Wars, we take a look at the influence of John Williams’ music, and two of its major themes: the Main Theme (or Luke’s Theme) and Princess Leia’s

Ep 2 Art of the Score: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Part 2

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2025/10/14

In the second episode of Art of the Score, we’re going even deeper into John Williams’ 1981 score for Raiders of the Lost Ark . https://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/2/16/episode-2-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-part-2

Ep 1 Art of the Score: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Part 1

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2025/10/14

In Art of the Score, we dissect the greats of film music from top to bottom. For our first two episodes, we’re starting with John Williams’ 1981 score for Raiders of the Lost Ark , one of the most iconic collaborations between Williams and Spielberg. https://www.artofthescore.com.au/podcast/2017/2/16/episode-1-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-part-1

BONUS: Emergency - One Battle After Another (2025)

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2025/10/05

When the master Paul Thomas Anderson returns with a career defining film, featuring multiple Oscar worthy acting performances by Leo, Sean, Benicio, and Chase, you knew Jason and I were in the premium theatrical format venues to watch on opening weekend. But then, when the instigator of our first ever non-Dune related BONUS Emergency - Civil War (2024) episode, host of the podcast Channels with Peter Kafka, Peter Kafka hit us up on the DMs and asked us when we were gonna fire up the mics, we had to

Paper Places #18: Finding Your Process, with Keith...

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2025/09/26

In this episode, Kerry sits down with Keith Houston to talk about the practicalities of writing alongside another job, finding your process and how deadlines are catalysts for getting your project completed.https://www.relay.fm/paperplaces/18

Eight Days of Luke by @Rebecca Fraimow (1)

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2024/11/04

"Wouldn't you say it was worth it to be really happy for a while, even if you knew you were going to end up sad ever after? Loki, Brunhilde, and the archetypal Diana Wynne Jones Cricket Boy. (Transcript available here.) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fcbV8W7GMS_us0_UzQSUFGgh0HGRnf6r/view?usp=sharing] === Original video: https://zencastr.com/z/KuEf5qKH Downloaded by http://huffduff-video.snarfed.org/ on Mon Nov 4 10:17:14 2024 Available for 30 days after download

The "Big 3" of Bluegrass - At the Crossroads

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2024/10/03

Listen to The "Big 3" of Bluegrass from At the Crossroads. Over the next 90 minutes, I will dive into the music of the three major acts who laid the groundwork for the emerging genre of bluegrass in the 1940s. I begin with the "Father of Bluegrass", Bill Monroe, whose seminal 1946 recording session with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and others split the old-time string-band atom. From there, I delve into Flatt & Scruggs own group which formed upon departing from Monroe in 1948. Finally, I take in

“I’ve rediscovered my love of cycling”: David Millar:...

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2024/09/18

“I’ve rediscovered my love of cycling”: David Millar and James Carnes of CHPT3 on appealing to every cyclist and designing a commuter shoe you can wear with a suit… and down a Swiss mountainhttps://road.cc/content/news/david-millar-designing-commuter-cycling-shoe-310109?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=jM9tnrzZFSgGgTbSs_bntuI-2E4rdnkgp_YJ_J7078g.R3Ntyv

The Raineys On The Road

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2024/09/15

A documentary about the travelling musicians in Connemara.

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