Carlos Rafael Rivera's score music is a reliable conduit of shivers and chills. The Emmy and Grammy winning composer's signature graceful style has amplified the drama of shows like The Queen's Gambit, Hacks, and Godless and his passage through the rigors and rewards of academia have made him a true student and teacher of his craft. You might be surprised how much of this goes out the window in favor of instinct when it's time to tell a story.
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Hrishikesh Hirway on Song Exploder and his Score for Companion
We're launching The Blank Chat podcast with Hrishikesh Hirway, well known as the creator and host of the best music podcast out there, Song Exploder. Less well known – for now – as a score composer. Hirway and host Charles Steinberg have a revealing talk about cracking the code of music journalism with Song Exploder and how Hirway seized the opportunity to score his first major feature film –Companion.
On each new episode, host Charles Steinberg will get into it with a different character central in the production of music for the moving image. No doubt, many of these names will belong to composers, but the seat is open to all manner of artists. The skilled technicians and musicians who bring the compositions to life, music supervisors who source the recorded songs that shape the telling of a story, really any and all admirers and connoisseurs of this form of music who want to share their unique perspectives.