Video on my thoughts and approach to the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxC4xkivWjg
Video breakdown of the sample libraries used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs6S_XxOgAY
Hear more of my music here: • David Kudell Original Music
I was honored to be selected by judges JJ Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and Ramin Djawadi as the winner of the Spitfire Westworld Scoring Competition from among 11,000 great entries! Thank you so much to everyone involved, all the judges, Paul Thompson and the Spitfire team!
I had a blast with this scene! My take on Caleb's genre switch was to enter the world of a video game with 8-bit music and sound. My approach was to build on this 8-bit theme by adding the orchestra and create variations on the video game melody that became more epic as the scene goes on, up to the big finale at the end.
I felt like this treatment aligns with the tongue-in-cheek genre switches that the producers of the show used in this episode, as well as Ramin's amazing work creating orchestral versions of "Paint it Black" to great effect in seasons 1 & 2.
Thanks to Spitfire Audio, J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Ramin Djawadi and HBO for the opportunity to score this epic scene from Westworld!
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