How Scary Film Music Actually Comes Across as “Scary”
From sound design to music theory to auditory phenomena, here are the reasons why horror film score music can actually spook us to death!
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How to Write an Award-Winning Film Score
The composer behind the award-winning music from the short film, The Nobody Prayer, lays out his 7 simple keys to success.
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Exploring the Functions of Music in Visual Media
Underscore and sound design can serve a variety of different purposes in film and TV, here are a plethora of scene music function examples.
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What Is Leitmotif, and How Do You Use It? (Video)
Another exclusive video lesson from Soundfly’s Intro to Scoring for Film & TV course, this one on the creative composing power of leitmotif.
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5 of the Most Unusual “Instruments” Used in Musical Scores
From natural sounds to mechanical devices, many unusual things have been incorporated into musical scores by daring composers. Here are 5.
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10 Films and TV Shows With Distinctive Sonic Worlds
These days, scoring for film and TV is as much about the sound palette a composer uses as it is about the music itself. Here are 10 examples.
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A Brief History of Film Scoring (Video)
In this exclusive video lesson, we attempt the impossible: to (briefishly) sum up the entire history of musical scoring in the film industry.
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Using Tensions for Lush Chord Voicings (Video)
Courtesy of his acclaimed course on Soundfly, Kiefer shares a lesson on using varieties of chord extensions to create lush sounding voicings.
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New Course Out Now on Soundfly: Intro to Scoring for Film & TV
Soundfly’s wide-reaching new course, Intro to Scoring for Film & TV is out NOW. Get started learning to write, orchestrate and produce cues.
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The Well-Tempered Clavier at 300
An audit of where one of Bach’s most important works, his 1722 Well-Tempered Clavier, stands after three centuries of influence.
