The Mix Panel Series - Score + Song + Source: The Creative Explosion in Film and Television Music

There’s been a subtle, yet pronounced, decades-long shift in how music works with picture, both films and television. The days of opening theme songs and daylong sessions with a 100-piece orchestra are increasingly rare; while the innovative infusion and integration of sound design, industrial rhythms, distorted first-gen samples, stripped-down orchestral sections, world beats, virtual instruments, solo strings, manipulated vocals—not to mention the weaving in  and out of pop and rock songs—these are all in. Here we talk with leading music supervisors, music editors, music re-recording mixers and supervising sound editors about the changing shape, and creation, of the modern music soundtrack.