Aisling Brouwer is a wondrous sonic stringsmith and a truly enjoyable guest to chat with. Her compositions on Pompeii: Out of Time walk the line between documentary, true crime and dramatization yet the wand she weaves puts all the pieces together brilliantly. “Scoring Pompeii: Out of Time meant finding music for a moment we all think we already know and then discovering how much of it we didn’t. I wanted the score to hold space for both the seismic force and scale of Vesuvius, and the intimate, human choices of the people living through it. The Pompeiian Cornu sits at the heart of that search – an instrument reborn from…
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Interview…Jess Royal On the Tangible Nostalgia of ‘Stranger Things’ and Saying Goodbye to Hawkins
All good things must come to an end and, sometimes, saying goodbye is the hardest part of the journey. It’s been a long time coming and the final season of Stranger Things was truly the end of an era. It was a monster hit, a high watermark for entertainment, and something that captured the heart of the world. It launched multiple stars into the limelight and made names for nearly everyone involved. We might just be done with 80s properties as the “cool” throwback time period where you could only remember cassette tapes, first crushes and battling trans-dimensional demons by looking in a photo album. Well, the world certainly embraced…
