All week this week, we've been exploring the process of composing for film. It's a series we're calling Scoring the Screen. (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE OF FILM SCORES) SIEGEL: One question we are asking ...

Shane Guffogg is a multi-media abstract artist with synesthesia, meaning he "hears color." Guffogg worked with AI experts and musicians to compose music that corresponds to his paintings. He believes ...

The owners of Red White & Booze challenged a city ordinance that included limits on the types of musical instruments and ...

This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s series about California composers. Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. It’s ...

With InZoi, you can design a life all your own and oversee the various Zois in a specific city. Each character has unique preferences and goals that make them stand out, and part of their ...

Despite being surrounded by faders and buttons, when I met Lucas Horne at a music studio in Nottingham with keyboards on the desk and a huge vocal booth, he didn’t need any of it to produce his song ...

Jade’s face peered out at me through the Zoom window, one of 25 faces in an elementary music class that recently went fully remote during the pandemic. Although Jade was only in the fifth grade, she ...

John Powell has more than 70 film scores under his belt, from Shrek to Wicked. Now, his beloved How To Train Your Dragon ...

Singer-songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby calls his latest album an “authentically made modern-day analog field recording of a century-old blues tradition.” The new album, “At the Blue Front,” was released ...

One audio-collage aspect of Come Back Down is the result of necessity. The electronic textures you hear on previous Total Wife records were made with Kupper’s collection of synthesizers. But before ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to film composer Justin Hurwitz, 29, about his first major movie score, for the movie Whiplash. Hurwitz talks about... How To Compose Music For A Movie About Music ROBERT ...