The Trailer Music Composer's Podcast

In this episode of the Trailer Music Composer’s Podcast I am joined by not one, but two very special guests. The supervisor/composer duo Emma Middleton (@rubatomusic_uk) and Kiaran Scragg (@fortnowhere).

Together the two of them wrote the track featured on the teaser trailer of The Witcher Season 2. On the show they go into so much detail on how they wrote the track together, even down to the samples they recorded and the plugins on the mastering chain.

This interview was such an insight into the world of custom covers.

Here’s a little bit about Emma and Kiaran:

Emma is a trailer-specialist Music Supervisor. Off the back of in-house agency experience, she launched freelance (in the middle of the pandemic!) in 2021 and set up her company, ‘Rubato Music’ (with an ethos based around Rubato being her favourite musical term).

Emma was voted “Music Supervisor of the Year” in 2020 at AIM Sync and is both winner + nominee of Music & Sound Awards for her custom music supervision work on The Crown Season 3 trailer & Season 4 teaser. Also a composer, she occasionally jumps in and gets her hands dirty – recent work: a collaboration on “The Witcher” Season 2 Teaser Trailer.

Kieran Scragg is the Creative Director of My Hart Canyon Music Ltd. In his twenties he toured the world and made albums with two bands and as a result had a history in tv and film sync before approaching the trailer world with songs used on Greys Anatomy and The Twilight Saga.

Kieran’s signed to Pusher and has worked on trailers such as ‘Death on the Nile, The Crown S3 trailer and S4 teaser, The Many Saints of Newark, Dr Death and The Witcher S2 teaser. He lives in on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon and has two kids, two gerbils and a wife. He’s listened to Richard’s podcast for a number of years, usually whilst making his lunch so he’s very excited to be on it!

Links mentioned on the show:

www.rubatomx.com < Emma's website (includes instructions + a Disco inbox link for submitting music for consideration)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMVzFlApa0 < The Witcher Season 2 Teaser, a 'remix' of Fleet Foxes (composer collaboration between Emma & Kieran)

https://www.instagram.com/fortnowhere/ < Kieran's Instagram @fortnow

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I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Yoav Goren on the Trailer Music Composer’s podcast.

For those of you who don’t know Yoav, is the co-founder of Immediate music with Jeff Fayman. Together they played an enormous part in shaping the railer music world and even the epic music world as we know it. Yoav and Jeff also went on to found 1 Revolution music which is a production music company focused on producing music for use on TV.

Yoav is also the man behind Globus, the epic music artist that introduced me to epic music. As you can imagine I was very happy to be able to thank him in person for that!

We also shared the same ideas behind the importance of joy and playfulness in what we do and also the plain and simple fact that we must share what we create as a matter of course!

In the show we discuss:

• The importance of joy in music creation
• Realising that what you create is a gift to the world
• How Globus was created
• How to approach writing music for custom scoring work
• The importance of layering live instruments with samples

Links mentioned in the show:

• Globus Cinematica
• Keyscape
• Ascend
• Novo Strings
• Los Angeles Scoring Strings
• Spitfire Audio Abbey Road
• Cinesamples Brass
• Spitfire Symphonic Brass
• East West Symphonic Orchestra
• SoundToys EchoBoy
• OTT
• Melodyne

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In this episode of the Trailer Music Composer’s Podcast I got to chat with the freelance music supervisor, Emma Middleton (@rubatomusic_uk).

In our conversation, Emma was so wonderfully transparent about all the aspects of music supervision and how she came to be in that role. This is gonna be such a helpful interview to listen to togive you a better understanding of how the trailer music world works.

Emma is a trailer-specialist Music Supervisor. Off the back of in-house agency experience, she launched freelance (in the middle of the pandemic!) in 2021 and set up her company, ‘Rubato Music’ (with an ethos based around Rubato being her favourite musical term).

Emma was voted “Music Supervisor of the Year” in 2020 at AIM Sync and is both winner + nominee of Music & Sound Awards for her custom music supervision work on The Crown Season 3 trailer & Season 4 teaser. Also a composer, she occasionally jumps in and gets her hands dirty – recent work: a collaboration on “The Witcher” Season 2 Teaser Trailer.

Besides music, she's a self-proclaimed 'cat lady', and an avid gamer who's very excited for the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us to come out...

Emma enjoys discovering and applying unusual or unexpected tracks to experiment and have fun with the trailer form, whilst keeping a firm handle on the necessary pacing and intensity required for these campaigns.

Links mentioned in the show:

www.rubatomx.com < Emma's website (includes instructions + a Disco inbox link for submitting music for consideration)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMVzFlApa0 < The Witcher Season 2 Teaser, a 'remix' of Fleet Foxes (composer collaboration between Emma & Kieran)

The Witcher Season 2 Teaser Trailer

URL:

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Hey Guys,

In today’s episode I talk to trailer music and video game composer Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen.

A few months ago he reached out to me on Instagram to tell me about his journey. I was so inspired by Sigurd’s story that I had to get him on the show.

Sigurd is a composer and live musician. Having toured Europe multiple times most recently with Blindstone and Walter Trout. Music composition credits mainly in video games and trailers include; Killing Floor, Marvels Eternals House Of Gucci, Scream and many more.

This episode was such a joy to record. Sigurd has a very wise head on his shoulders and delivers some absolute gems when it comes to your mental health and balancing your work with your life.

I came away from this interview wanting to be more kind to myself and I think you will too.

Links mentioned in the show:

Metropolis Ark

Spitfire Audio

Native Instrument’s Raum

Soundtoys

Mammoth Audio

How to get in touch with Sigurd:

sigurdmusic.com

Instagram.com/sigurdthemusicdude

https://youtube.com/channel/UC4ejoId4XON7ciHcP0ysWzg

Facebook.com/sigurdthemusicdude

Twitter.com/SigurdJJ

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