Convention - SDCC 2017 : The Character of Music: Music for Popular TV.panel and interviews

By Mulder, San Diego, 22 july 2017

Can't get that certain song or tune out of your head that you heard on TV?

Learn how music is added to your favorite TV shows and how it is an essential character in storytelling.

Composers Dave Porter (Breaking Bad, Preacher), Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (Stranger Things), and Eskmo (13 Reasons Why) and Thomas Golubi (The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul) discuss how they create and place music in their programs, how they discover talent, and what their experiences have been working on some of the most popular series on television. This panel was moderated by Chandler Poling of White Bear PR.

ITW Nathalie Bonin

ITW Eskmo

Brendan Angelides, better known by his stage names Eskmo and Welder, is an American electronic music producer and composer. He has released music on record labels such as Interscope, Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, and Warp Records.

ITW Dave Porter

Dave Porter is an American composer who wrote the opening theme and the original score for the television series Breaking Bad. At Sarah Lawrence College, Porter studied classical and electronic music composition. For his work on Breaking Bad, Porter has won an ASCAP Award. Bryan Cranston, who portrays Walter White, stated "With his music, Dave Porter has created another character for Breaking Bad. Evocative and meaningful, Dave's work is an essential part of the storytelling."[4] Porter stated that influences on the series' music came from discussions with Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, about the show having aspects of a post-modern western. For the final episodes of the series, Porter incorporated four important themes that were in previous seasons. Porter currently composes music for NBC's crime thriller The Blacklist, as well as for the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul.

Itw Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

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