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How ‘The Studio’ Composer Created ‘Wall-to-Wall’ Music and Set Out to Prove He Wasn’t a ‘One-Trick Pony’ After ‘Birdman’


"The Studio" composer Antonio Sanchez breaks down creating "wall-to-wall" music by expanding his soundscape to horns, strings and percussion.

Sanchez got started right away on the music for Continental Studio’s films, expanding his soundscape to horns, strings and percussion across all ten episodes. He recalls doing another pass with mallets and how playing them “on my toms created a lot of reverb, which made it sound scary when Bryan Cranston is chastising Seth’s character.” The episode originally featured temp music from composers like Jerry Goldsmith, taking inspiration from classic film noir scores.

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