As music has become an increasingly integral component of the storytelling process, thanks to such series as “Pose” and “Bridgerton,” the role of the music director has changed.
“I’m seeing music being used in ways that you didn’t see before,” says Harvey Mason Jr. He landed two nominations this year for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” earning a nod for music direction as well as original music and lyrics. Mason, who also serves as head of the Recording Academy and has collaborated with the likes of Brandy and Destiny’s Child, says the need for a music director has become more apparent.
That was especially so during the Covid pandemic. “The way things were being produced changed the role of a music director,” he says. “We were doing things remotely, using different software and apps. We really had to adapt.”
It resulted in more interaction with showrunners, directors and talent...
“I’m seeing music being used in ways that you didn’t see before,” says Harvey Mason Jr. He landed two nominations this year for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” earning a nod for music direction as well as original music and lyrics. Mason, who also serves as head of the Recording Academy and has collaborated with the likes of Brandy and Destiny’s Child, says the need for a music director has become more apparent.
That was especially so during the Covid pandemic. “The way things were being produced changed the role of a music director,” he says. “We were doing things remotely, using different software and apps. We really had to adapt.”
It resulted in more interaction with showrunners, directors and talent...
- 8/27/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
As Emmy voting draws to a close, the 2021 music nominations span rookies to regulars. Here’s a guide, sizing up the competition in seven categories including scoring, supervision and song.
There is a wealth of music nominated across different sounds and genres. Variety breaks it all down in the annual Emmy chart.
Music Composition for a Series
“Bridgerton” (Netflix)
Composer: Kris Bowers
Two previous nominations (two this year)
“Diamond of the First Water”
Period-appropriate strings dominate small-ensemble score.
“The Crown” (Netflix)
Composer: Martin Phipps
Six previous nominations
“The Balmoral Test”
Harp, women’s voices for Diana’s entry into the royal family
“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)
Composer: Adam Taylor
One previous nomination
“The Crossing”
Eerie textures, string quartet, for June’s capture and torture
“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)
Composers: Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq
One win, three noms for Karpman; first nom for Saadiq
“Rewind 1921”
Operatic aria, large orchestra play requiem for...
There is a wealth of music nominated across different sounds and genres. Variety breaks it all down in the annual Emmy chart.
Music Composition for a Series
“Bridgerton” (Netflix)
Composer: Kris Bowers
Two previous nominations (two this year)
“Diamond of the First Water”
Period-appropriate strings dominate small-ensemble score.
“The Crown” (Netflix)
Composer: Martin Phipps
Six previous nominations
“The Balmoral Test”
Harp, women’s voices for Diana’s entry into the royal family
“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)
Composer: Adam Taylor
One previous nomination
“The Crossing”
Eerie textures, string quartet, for June’s capture and torture
“Lovecraft Country” (HBO)
Composers: Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq
One win, three noms for Karpman; first nom for Saadiq
“Rewind 1921”
Operatic aria, large orchestra play requiem for...
- 8/27/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+)
For music director Aron Forbes, work on Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry began with going through archived recordings from live concerts. “We were digging as deep as we could to try and find multitrack recordings of everything. I think it was 25, 26 performances, something like that,” he says. “We’re talking about the early days, really small venues — some of the stuff was just a recording from one of the cameras — all the way to today, where it’s arenas and huge shows....
For music director Aron Forbes, work on Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry began with going through archived recordings from live concerts. “We were digging as deep as we could to try and find multitrack recordings of everything. I think it was 25, 26 performances, something like that,” he says. “We’re talking about the early days, really small venues — some of the stuff was just a recording from one of the cameras — all the way to today, where it’s arenas and huge shows....
- 8/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (Apple TV+)
For music director Aron Forbes, work on Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry began with going through archived recordings from live concerts. “We were digging as deep as we could to try and find multitrack recordings of everything. I think it was 25, 26 performances, something like that,” he says. “We’re talking about the early days, really small venues — some of the stuff was just a recording from one of the cameras — all the way to today, where it’s arenas and huge shows....
For music director Aron Forbes, work on Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry began with going through archived recordings from live concerts. “We were digging as deep as we could to try and find multitrack recordings of everything. I think it was 25, 26 performances, something like that,” he says. “We’re talking about the early days, really small venues — some of the stuff was just a recording from one of the cameras — all the way to today, where it’s arenas and huge shows....
- 8/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Billie Eilish not only has the No. 1 album in the country—Happier Than Ever—she’s also the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, directed by R.J. Cutler.
The Apple Original Films doc chronicling the Grammy-winning teenage singer-songwriter’s creative process, family life, astonishing rise and adjustment to worldwide fame earned Emmy nominations in four categories including music direction, sound mixing, sound editing and picture editing.
Music director and music mixer, Aron Forbes, a double Emmy nominee, has worked with Eilish for years already, and co-wrote one of her earliest hits, “Bored.” Eilish performs the song early in the film.
“She was 13 years old when I wrote that with her, which is just unbelievable to think about,” Forbes said during a panel discussion for the documentary at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event. Forbes said knowing Eilish as well as he does...
The Apple Original Films doc chronicling the Grammy-winning teenage singer-songwriter’s creative process, family life, astonishing rise and adjustment to worldwide fame earned Emmy nominations in four categories including music direction, sound mixing, sound editing and picture editing.
Music director and music mixer, Aron Forbes, a double Emmy nominee, has worked with Eilish for years already, and co-wrote one of her earliest hits, “Bored.” Eilish performs the song early in the film.
“She was 13 years old when I wrote that with her, which is just unbelievable to think about,” Forbes said during a panel discussion for the documentary at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event. Forbes said knowing Eilish as well as he does...
- 8/14/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
On July 13, 2021, music director Aron Forbes woke up to his first-ever Emmy nominations for AppleTV+’s frank, in-depth music documentary “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.” It’s probably the most revealing behind-the-scenes superstar doc since “Madonna: Truth or Dare,” except this one is about massive success filtered through the prism of someone who is barely old enough to drive (Note: you actually see Eilish score her driver’s license over the course of the movie), and told over several impactful, sometimes awkwardly raw years.
“It’s just mind-blowing, you know, the people in those categories, some of them I’ve looked up to my whole life,” says Forbes, referring to his category mates who chronicled music legends as diverse as Tina Turner, David Byrne and the Bee Gees. “It’s beyond unexpected.” But there’s one major thing that separates Forbes from his competition: he was literally arranging...
“It’s just mind-blowing, you know, the people in those categories, some of them I’ve looked up to my whole life,” says Forbes, referring to his category mates who chronicled music legends as diverse as Tina Turner, David Byrne and the Bee Gees. “It’s beyond unexpected.” But there’s one major thing that separates Forbes from his competition: he was literally arranging...
- 7/21/2021
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Emmy voters had a song in their hearts when they went to vote in the 2021 documentary categories. Of the projects nominated for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special, three out of five focused on superstar musicians: “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” “Tina” and “Framing Britney Spears (The New York Times Presents).”
HBO’s look at the Bee Gees led the music documentary crop in overall nominations, with six. Besides outstanding doc, the film about the Brothers Gibb is also up for direction, writing, editing, sound editing and sound mixing in the documentary/nonfiction division.
HBO was also behind the Tina Turner doc “Tina,” which landed three total nominations. It’s up in directing and sound mixing categories on top of its outstanding documentary bid.
“Framing Britney Spears,” which focused on Spears’ private-life travails and not her music, was destined to get fewer nods than competitors, with...
HBO’s look at the Bee Gees led the music documentary crop in overall nominations, with six. Besides outstanding doc, the film about the Brothers Gibb is also up for direction, writing, editing, sound editing and sound mixing in the documentary/nonfiction division.
HBO was also behind the Tina Turner doc “Tina,” which landed three total nominations. It’s up in directing and sound mixing categories on top of its outstanding documentary bid.
“Framing Britney Spears,” which focused on Spears’ private-life travails and not her music, was destined to get fewer nods than competitors, with...
- 7/13/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
The TV Academy music branch is clearly not impressed by big names.
None of the superstars who entered the 2020-21 Emmy competition in the music categories — including H.E.R., Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Sara Bareilles, Dolly Parton and Cher — were rewarded Wednesday when the 73rd annual Emmy Award nominations were announced.
Rather, the majority of nominees in the seven music categories were largely familiar composers, songwriters, music directors and music supervisors within the scoring community.
The biggest musical names nominated were Marcus Mumford for the theme for “Ted Lasso,” Grammy president-ceo Harvey Mason Jr. for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” jazzman Branford Marsalis for a History Channel documentary, two-time Oscar winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for their hummable songs for “WandaVision,” and Tony winner Marc Shaiman for a song on a YouTube special.
Missing from Tuesday’s lists were songs for “Safety,” by H.E.R.; “Black Is King” by Beyoncé; both “Girls5eva...
None of the superstars who entered the 2020-21 Emmy competition in the music categories — including H.E.R., Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Sara Bareilles, Dolly Parton and Cher — were rewarded Wednesday when the 73rd annual Emmy Award nominations were announced.
Rather, the majority of nominees in the seven music categories were largely familiar composers, songwriters, music directors and music supervisors within the scoring community.
The biggest musical names nominated were Marcus Mumford for the theme for “Ted Lasso,” Grammy president-ceo Harvey Mason Jr. for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” jazzman Branford Marsalis for a History Channel documentary, two-time Oscar winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for their hummable songs for “WandaVision,” and Tony winner Marc Shaiman for a song on a YouTube special.
Missing from Tuesday’s lists were songs for “Safety,” by H.E.R.; “Black Is King” by Beyoncé; both “Girls5eva...
- 7/13/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Image Source: Nicole Mago
Friday, Oct. 30, was a gray, murky day perfectly suited for wrapping yourself in a blanket and doing nothing. On such occasions, I usually blast my "Rainy Day" playlist on Spotify, which features a number of songs by Brooklyn-based singer Vérité (née Kelsey Byrne). But instead of listening to the 30-year-old songstress, I had the chance to speak with her via video chat. Cozied up in a black-and-white mock-neck sweater with grommet details, she shared the same sentiment of giving in to listless weather-related behavior. "It's been a struggle to get out of bed," she said. "It's f*cking awful."
"I had to find my confidence and be competent in my abilities and my voice. It's recognizing that I'm going to be Ok, no matter what. I'm going to find a way to live."
But Vérité's lethargy was warranted considering she had just unveiled a special project:...
Friday, Oct. 30, was a gray, murky day perfectly suited for wrapping yourself in a blanket and doing nothing. On such occasions, I usually blast my "Rainy Day" playlist on Spotify, which features a number of songs by Brooklyn-based singer Vérité (née Kelsey Byrne). But instead of listening to the 30-year-old songstress, I had the chance to speak with her via video chat. Cozied up in a black-and-white mock-neck sweater with grommet details, she shared the same sentiment of giving in to listless weather-related behavior. "It's been a struggle to get out of bed," she said. "It's f*cking awful."
"I had to find my confidence and be competent in my abilities and my voice. It's recognizing that I'm going to be Ok, no matter what. I'm going to find a way to live."
But Vérité's lethargy was warranted considering she had just unveiled a special project:...
- 11/15/2020
- by Brea Cubit
- Popsugar.com
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