“Can you believe that’s an online orchestra?” asks composer Laura Karpman.
She’s talking about the musical score of HBO’s new “Lovecraft Country,” which debuted Sunday night and is believed to be the first post-pandemic series to be entirely scored, from first episode to last, by musicians recording remotely from their homes.
Together with musical partner Raphael Saadiq, Karpman scored the 10-part series in which three African-Americans drive across 1950s America experiencing not only prejudice but also hideous monsters out of the imagination of pulp writer H.P. Lovecraft.
Creator Misha Green told her composers (who collaborated with her on Wgn’s slavery series “Underground”) that she wanted “gothic, orchestral R&b” to accompany her journey into terror. And while that combination of musical genres might seem confusing or impossible, Karpman and Saadiq have pulled it off.
Using 30 musicians, all playing by themselves in their home studios, Karpman has...
She’s talking about the musical score of HBO’s new “Lovecraft Country,” which debuted Sunday night and is believed to be the first post-pandemic series to be entirely scored, from first episode to last, by musicians recording remotely from their homes.
Together with musical partner Raphael Saadiq, Karpman scored the 10-part series in which three African-Americans drive across 1950s America experiencing not only prejudice but also hideous monsters out of the imagination of pulp writer H.P. Lovecraft.
Creator Misha Green told her composers (who collaborated with her on Wgn’s slavery series “Underground”) that she wanted “gothic, orchestral R&b” to accompany her journey into terror. And while that combination of musical genres might seem confusing or impossible, Karpman and Saadiq have pulled it off.
Using 30 musicians, all playing by themselves in their home studios, Karpman has...
- 8/17/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
The shutdown of production was devastating to Los Angeles’ music community, just as it has been for every aspect of TV- and movie-making. But creative thinking is putting some studio musicians back to work.
John Acosta, president of Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians, projects that lost wages due to the cancellation of live performances and studio recording dates could range from $2 million to $4 million, “just for the month of March.” Scuttled scoring dates amounted to half of that total, with last-minute cancellations of music for Fox’s “Family Guy,” Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy” and Peacock’s upcoming “Brave New World,” among others, prompting the Warner Bros., Sony and Fox scoring stages to close their doors within days of the city’s mandate that all nonessential businesses do so.
“Everything ground to a total standstill,” says composer Fil Eisler, who was gearing up to score the four remaining...
John Acosta, president of Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians, projects that lost wages due to the cancellation of live performances and studio recording dates could range from $2 million to $4 million, “just for the month of March.” Scuttled scoring dates amounted to half of that total, with last-minute cancellations of music for Fox’s “Family Guy,” Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy” and Peacock’s upcoming “Brave New World,” among others, prompting the Warner Bros., Sony and Fox scoring stages to close their doors within days of the city’s mandate that all nonessential businesses do so.
“Everything ground to a total standstill,” says composer Fil Eisler, who was gearing up to score the four remaining...
- 4/2/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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