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Tim Wynn - XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

Tim Wynn is the quintessential modern day composer/producer, and his diverse portfolio includes feature films, television series, documentaries and video games. Tim Wynn studied at the USC School of Music, where he studied under Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, Buddy Baker and Jerry Goldsmith.

Wynn’s music career is notable by the diversity of his credits. In addition to his feature film the work for television, just some of his viideo game projects include:: Darkness II (2K), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA), Total War:Warhammer (Sega), Madden NFL 25 (EA), The Simpson’s Game (EA), and Warhawk (Sony). One of Tim Wynn’s most recent video game score is for XCOM 2 - WAR OF THE CHOSEN.

In August, 2017, Feral Interactive released XCOM® 2: War of the Chosen, the expansion pack for the award-winning 2016 strategy game XCOM 2 for PC, Mac OS and Linux. Developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K for PC and consoles, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen adds a massive amount of content to XCOM 2.  

War of the Chosen brings thrilling new material to the fight against ADVENT, the human enforcers of the alien regime occupying Earth. When additional resistance factions emerge to eliminate the invaders, a sinister new enemy, the “Chosen”, arises. They have one goal: to recapture the Commander of XCOM. The expansion includes new Hero classes to counter the “Chosen”, new enemies, missions, even more challenging environments and increased depth in strategic gameplay.

In this episode, TIM WYNN will take us into two tracks from his original game score. First, he breaks down his forceful and menacing main theme for The Chosen. Second, he describes the track "Metal and Steel." He describes the momentum-building music that is heard when the player prepares for a mission and the techniques employed to deliver what he calls “2 minutes of adrenaline.” 

ANNOTATED TRACKS

02:12 - Track - “War of the Chosen”

06:59 - Track - “Metal and Steel"

OTHER TRACKS

00:09 - Track 11 - "Final Breath"

01:20 - Track 10 - "In Solitude"

SOUNDTRACK

The original scoundtrack to XCOM 2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN was released digitally in August 2017 and can be purchased at Amazon.com

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can hear find out more and hear more music at TIM WYNN'S official site http://timwynn.net/

You can follow TIM WYNN on Twitter at @timwynn_

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Matthew Margeson is an American composer who has written and arranged music for some films including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men: First Class, Wreck-It Ralph, Captain Phillips, Into The Woods, Eddie The Eagle, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children..

Matthew Margeson teams up with composer Henry Jackman, for the third time, to compose the original score for the spy-action-adventure-comedy, KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, the sequel to 2015’S KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE - both directed by Matthew Vaughn.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle brings a new adventure that will test the agents' strength and wits when their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. Kingsman: The Golden Circle opens in theaters September 22, 2017.

In this episode, MATTHEW MARGESON talks about how the theme for the principal villlain proved to be one of the most difficult scoring challenges and how director Matthew Vaughn challenged them to get 25 fiddlers and 18 guitarists into one room to record for the score.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

01:37 - Track - “Eggsy is Back”

07:22 - Track - “Poppy"

09:33 - Track - "Statesman"

11:13 - Track - "Tornado in the Trailer Park"

13:41 - Track - "The Kingsman Hoedown"

SOUNDTRACK

The original scoundtrack to KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE is scheduled for release in October 2017.

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You can find follow Matthew Margeson on Twitter @matthewmargeson

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Ryan Shore is a 2-time Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominated composer, songwriter and conductor for film, television, virtual reality, games, records and theatre. He was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer / Arranger / Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, where he worked with artists including Lady Gaga AND John Legend.

Shore has conducted orchestras around the world in recordings and concerts including The New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, The Czech Philharmonic, as well as conducting concerts for Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions and Soundtracks Live! featuring music from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  

Ryan Shore has over 60 composing credits including scores for: Julie's Greenroom (Netflix) Penn Zero: Part Time Hero (Disney Television Animation), SpyHunter (Warner Bros), The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay), Cabin Fever 2 (Lions Gate), The X Factor (FOX) and one of his most recent projects the 2017 animated series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (Lucasfilm).

Star Wars Forces of Destiny, a new animated micro-series celebrating some of Star Wars’ most beloved and inspirational characters, The highly-anticipated shorts, 2-3 minutes each, tell the untold stories that helped shape the destinies of Rey, Jyn Erso, Princess Leia, Sabine Wren, Padmé Amidala, Ahsoka Tano, and other Star Wars icons. The series premiered on Disney's Youtube channel on July 3, 2017.

In this episode, Ryan Shore talks through 4 of the episodes from the series detailing how he employed John Wiliams' original themes while composing from his own musical vocabulary. A note - while Ryan Shore comments on them, the original themes and motifs by John Williams are not included in these audio tracks. You can; however, find each of the full episodes in the show notes at the TheAnnotator.net.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

02:55 - Track - “Main Theme”

03:50 - Track - “BB-8 Bandits"

06:36 - Track - "The Padawan Path"

09:25 - Track - "The Imposter Inside"

11:36 - Track - "Bounty of Trouble"

OTHER TRACKS

00:00 - Track - "Sands of Jakku”

01:49 - Track - “Beasts of Echo Base”

14:29 - Track - “The Stranger”

STAR WARS: FORCES OF DESTINY EPISODES

"BB-8 Bandits" - https://youtu.be/KPhiPd-EXCA

"The Padawan Path" - https://youtu.be/jTxJpEkR7CE

"The Imposter Inside" - https://youtu.be/xPS6Od-oxcc

"Bounty of Trouble" - https://youtu.be/OgNnBNvLB2Y

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out and hear more music by RYAN SHORE at his official website RYANSHORE.COM

Follow Ryan Shore on Twitter @ryanshore

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Gareth Coker is a British composer for film, games, and commercials. Gareth has developed a compositional style focusing on memorable, melodically-driven themes and motifs, combined with unique, and unconventional soundscapes. He collaborated with Moon Studios on the acclaimed game Ori and the Blind Forest, released in March 2015. His original score for Ori has won several prestigious awards, including an Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences award for Outstanding Music Composition, a SXSW Gaming Award for Excellence in Musical Score, and the Game Audio Network Guild’s Audio of the Year.

​Gareth Coker has since written scores for Minecraft, has also contributed music to the independent games Primal Carnage, The Mean Greens, and inMomentum and in the realm of Virtual Reality has written the score for veteran developer Insomniac Games’ new title The Unspoken. One of Coker's other recent video game projects has been for the open-world video game, ARK Survival Evolved.

Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard in collaboration with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement. In the game, players must survive being stranded on an island filled with roaming dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.

In this episode, Gareth Coker talks about the history of his ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED main theme and the track from the final boss fight in the game, entitled “Overseer.”

ANNOTATED TRACKS

03:44 - Track - “Main Theme (Original)”

04:36 - Track - “Main Theme (Live)”

05:23 - Track - “Recap of the Main Theme (Original)"

06:11 - Track - “Recap of the Main Theme (Live)"

07:03 - Track - “The Overseer”

OTHER TRACKS

00:05 - Track - "Ascension”

01:39 - Track - “Creation”

THE ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED SOUNDTRACK

The original soundtrack for ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED releases on August 29 via digital and streaming outlets worldwide through Sumthing Else Music Works.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out and hear more music by GARETH COKER at his official website GARETH-COKER.NET

Follow Gareth Coker on Twitter @garethcoker

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Joel P West is a songwriter, film composer and front man of The Tree Ring and Flood Coats. Joel is known for his scores for SHORT TERM 12, GRANDMA, and I AM NOT A HIPSTER. Joel’s work is heavily inspired by the wilderness and the wide open spaces of North America.

His career spans over 10 years, with his original style being lent to the upcoming highly anticipated Destin Daniel Cretton film THE GLASS CASTLE including an original song titled ‘Summer Storm’, written and performed by Joel himself. This score, with Americana roots, is an exercise in storytelling through music..

Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family, THE GLASS CASTLE is a remarkable story of unconditional love. Oscar® winner Brie Larson brings Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

In this episode of the THE ANNOTATOR, Joel P. West shares about the musical language he needed to create to cover a timespan of over 30 years in THE GLASS CASTLE. He also talks about his use of themes reflecting the different aspects of key relationships in the film instead of the characters themselves. He also shares why no electronics were employed in the instrumentation or effects processing. Finally he talks about how they employed his score to bridge several jumps in time within the film.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

01:44 - Track 1 - “Rich City Folk”

05:23 - Track 4 - “Real School”

07:01 - Track 6 - “It'll be an Adventure”

08:54 - Track 8 - “You Promised”

11:06 - Track 9 - “Maroon Wave”

13:46 - Track 11 - “Funeral”

15:26 - Track 14 - “Mountain Goat”

OTHER TRACKS

00:05 - Track 4 - "Real School”

17:43 - Track 9 - “Maroon Wave”

THE GLASS CASTLE SOUNDTRACK

No release information is currently available.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

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American composer and multi-instrumentalist, JEREMY TURNER, is known for creating innovative and diverse music for the moving image and the stage. From composing award winning scores for films to a career as the Assistant Principal Cello of the Met Orchestra, he has established a unique regard for understanding and performing varying musical languages and styles. As a composer, his music has been nominated for an EMMY® Award, has won the International Documentary Association Award (Narco Cultura), the AICP Award for Google’s first television commercial (Parisian Love), and has been named in NPR Music’s Favorite Songs of the Year. 

One of Jeremy Turner’s most recent projects has been composing and conducting the score to the Netflix original series Five Came Back, produced by Steven Spielberg and Scott Rudin.

Adapted from Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War,” and directed by Laurent Bouzereau, the three-part docuseries tells the extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five filmmakers who interrupted their successful careers to serve their country, risk their lives and bring the truth back to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. To guide viewers through the different personalities, interweaving chronologies and globe-trotting locales, the Five Came Back team turned to the voices of five modern cinematic masters: Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Greengrass and Lawrence Kasdan. Three-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep provides the narration for Five Came Back.

On this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Jeremy Turner talks about: the five motifs he wrote for each of the 5 central figures, how they evolve and change along with the experiences of the 5 directors and lastly how he used silence to give the moments of score even greater impact.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

03:32 - Track - “Prelude”

08:53 - Track - “Willie and Lester”

11:26 - Track - “Anne Frank”

13:00 - Track - “Wonderful”

OTHER TRACKS

00:00 - Track - "Forgotten Man” 

01:04 - Track - "Capra Goes to Washington”

01:48 - Track - “Euro Stevens"

17:18 - Track - "Isolationism"

FIVE CAME BACK SOUNDTRACK

No release information is currently available.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out and hear more music by JEREMY TURNER at his official website HEARJT.COM 

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CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ is a composer and producer for film, television, records, and Video Games. films credits include Box office hit comedies including The Boss, Horrible Bosses (1 &2), Think Like A Man (1 &2),, and Identity Thief, popular family comedies including Alvin and the Chipmunks and Hop. He’s scored television series including Supernatural, Galavant and Marvel’s Agent Carter and video games such as Mass Effect 3, Starhawk, Medal of Honor, and the James Bond: 007 series, Lennertz has also collaborated with music giants including Dave Grusin, RZA, members of Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction and THE Dave Matthews Band. 

One of his most recent scoring projects is for Sony Pictures Animated film, SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE. This new take on the Smurfs film marks the first collaboration between Lennertz and the film’s director, Kelly Asbury. In addition to writing the score for the film, Lennertz co-wrote a song with Award-winning singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. 

Smurfs: The Lost Village tells the story of Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty and their race through the Forbidden Forest; the gang must find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel. Embarking on a journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history! 

In this episode of THE ANNOTATOR, Christopher Lennertz talks about how he worked with director Kelly Asbury to set the tone for this new Smurf creation, how he created “smurf flower horn” now 80’s Amblin movies influenced this film and score, and just what the purpose of his original song, “You will Always Find Me In Your Heart” , was in the film.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

02:05 - Track 1 - “Meet the Smurfs”

04:50 - Track 2 - “To the Village”

07:12 - Track 4 - “Gargamel's Lair”

09:00 - Track 13 - “Raft Chase”

11:54 - Track 23 - “The Truest Smurf of All”

17:27 - Track 25 - “Smurf Eating Flowers (Bonus Track)”

OTHER TRACKS

00:00 - Track 7 - “Get Those Smurfs” 

18:22 - Track 24 - "End Credits Suite”

20:32 - Track 1 - “Paris Can Wait″ (Paris Can Wait)

SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE SOUNDTRACK

Released by MADISON GATE RECORDS

Digital and CD - 25-track soundtrack was released on March 31, 2017

You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.

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NEAL ACREE is an award winning film, television and video game composer and conductor whose work includes the massively popular game franchises World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Revelation Online, shows like Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and over 30 feature films. A versatile and prolific composer with roots in classical, rock and electronic music, Acree's music has been recorded and performed by orchestras and choirs around the world, including the hit concert tour Video Games Live. His latest project is for the video game, REND

REND was developed by Frostkeep studios, which was founded by veteran game developers who met working on the original World of Warcraft. This hybrid survival game summons players to align with one of three factions before they’re dropped into a beautiful, but brutal fantasy world where they must strategically team up with other players and friends to battle enemy creatures and rival factions in a relentless, competitive race towards ascension.

In this episode, Neal Acree talks about his desire for his original score for REND to tell the story starting from a warrior’s funeral to the player's ascension to a higher plane of existence in the afterlife. He shares about his use of vocals and old Norse poetry and discusses how instrumentation choices, which spanned the globe, produced the score's raw and unrefined edge as well as a sense of history. Finally, Acree shares about how many of the instrumentalists on Rend had never performed on a video game score before.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

02:12 - Track - “Main Theme”

05:22 - Track - “Night”

07:20 - Track - “Day 1”

08:53 - Track - “Day 2”

10:35 - Track - “Cave”

12:19 - Track - “The Reckoning”

OTHER TRACKS

00:07 - Track - “Rend Loop”

01:20 - Track - “Trailer”

14:23 - Track - “Day 2″

15:27 - Track - “To the Village” (Smurfs: The Lost Village)

REND SOUNDTRACK

No release information is currently available.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out and hear more music by NEAL ACRE at his official website NEALACREE.COM or follow him on twitter @Neal_acree

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OLIVIER DERIVIERE has been hailed by MTV as “Game music’s eclectic daredevil”, He has won an IFMCA and CUE AWARD for his work on the video game REMEMBER ME and is widely acclaimed for both his composition and innovative approaches to connecting music with the game experience. Among his more recent original scores include video games such as ASSASSIN’S CREED IV: FREEDOM CRY and SUPERNOVA. Derivière often blends traditional musical elements with unorthodox sound techniques in pursuit of creating an authentic score that fully immerses the player in the gameplay and story.

Olivier Deriviere’s most recent project is the video game, GET EVEN - a psychological thriller by Polish video game developers The Farm 51. In the game, players take the role of Cole Black who awakens in an old abandoned asylum, his sole memory is the attempted rescue of a teenage girl with a bomb strapped to her chest, the rest of his memories wiped away. Players will explore an eerie and destitute world on a mission to discover the truth behind his traumatic memory. GET EVEN’s twisted tale will have players questioning their perceptions of reality and the true meaning of justice as they unravel the mystery of how Cole ended up in the asylum and the fate of that teenage girl.

In this episode, composer OLIVIER DERIVIERE while sharing some of the story points of the game, delivers detailed insights from four tracks of his original score to GET EVEN. He discusses some of his key motifs and how the reflection of important emotional beats found in the narrative are expressed within his score. He also talks about some of the technology and techniques employed to blend sound effect into his music.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

02:00 - Track 1 - “Consequences”

06:19 - Track 8 - “Homicide Case”

09:58 - Track 18 - “Broken Promise”

13:01 - Track 5 - “Reascending the Tower”

OTHER TRACKS

00:00 - Track 16 - “For Her”

18:46 - Track 17 - “Making Queries”

GET EVEN SOUNDTRACK

Released by AMEO PUBLISHING.

Digital - 19-track, deluxe edition was released on May 26, 2017

You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

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In this episode, composer DANIEL PEMBERTON shares 5 tracks from his KING ARTHUR SCORE and talks about researching medieval instruments long before starting any of his writing and how he visiting renaissance fairs resulted in finding several unique instruments to employ in his score. Lastly, he talks about the challenge of writing a Medieval yet contemporary score and how KING ARTHUR brought him to the point of heavy breathing and whiskey enabled vocalizations.

ANNOTATED TRACKS

02:29 -Track 2 - “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”

05:23 -Track 3 - “Growing Up in Londimium”

08:05 -Track 4 - “Jackeye’s Tale”

11:36 - Track 12 - “The Born King”

14:25 - Track 26 - “The Devil & the Huntsmen”

OTHER TRACKS

00:14 - “Seasoned Oak”

18:46 - “Journey to the Caves”

KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD SOUNDTRACK

Released by WATER TOWER MUSIC.

Digital - 30-track, deluxe edition was released on May 5, 2017

CD - 26-track edition released on May 19, 2017.

You can find the soundtrack at Amazon.com, iTunes or streaming on Spotify.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out and hear more music by DANIEL PEMBERTON at his official website DANIELPEMBERTON.COM or follow him on twitter @danielpemberton

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