by Tristan | Dec 7, 2017 | Compositions, Documentary, Exercises, Film Release
This weekend, one of my tracks will feature in the premiere of The Commodore Story – a two-hour documentary about the history of the legendary home computer and gaming system. Whether or not you actually owned one (I didn’t), the Commodore 64 is a childhood cultural...
by Tristan | Nov 15, 2017 | News
I love collaboration. I think you need to as a film composer. Everything we do is collaborative, with the director, with the actors’ performances, the musicians who play our music and with everyone else who works on the film. But nothing is quite as exciting as...
by Tristan | Jun 22, 2017 | Magical, Review, Strings, TV Soundtrack
A finely-detailed animated map, spurts of fire, whatever those spinning metal things are and THAT cello melody. You’re never in any doubt about what you’re about to watch when the Game of Thrones title sequence comes onto the screen. One of the side effects of the...
by Tristan | Apr 26, 2017 | Drama, Film, News, Short Film
Late last year I was fortunate enough to work on my first short film in London. The film is called “Forgive” and it follows a tragic story of a family torn apart by not just cancer, but a startling deathbed confession. With its focus around the...
by Tristan | May 20, 2016 | Drama, Film, Review
Recently I’ve been enjoying two great works on the art of film soundtracks; the Star Wars Oxygen podcasts and Doug Adams’ book The Music of Lord of the Rings. Both provide a blow-by-blow account of all the music that appears on the soundtracks of those respective film...
