Roots Manuva, David Arnold and silent film composer Neil Brand will all be part of the BBC’s Sound of Cinema season.
A wide range of programmes across BBC Four, BBC’s Asian Network as well as the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 will be dedicated to celebrating composers, songs and film scores.
Neil Brand’s three part series on BBC 4 will focus on the works of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Alfred Hitchcock and the scores they used in their films.
BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s The Story of Hip Hop in the Movies will have Roots Manuva and Pharrell Williams discussing how hip hop and films collaborate.
Director Ken Loach and composer George Fenton will discuss their 20-year partnership on BBC Radio 3 while Bobby Friction will explore the evolution of Bollywood film music in a show on the Asian Network.
Neil Brand, presenter and composer, said: ‘It's so fantastic that the BBC, the biggest producer of music content, is showing how music works for films this autumn with Sound Of Cinema.
‘Film scores demand an extraordinary degree of both musicianship and dramatic understanding on the part of their composers. Whilst creating potent, original music to synchronise exactly with the images, composers are also making that music as discreet, accessible and communicative as possible, so that it can speak to each and every one of us.’
Elsewhere, Mark Kermode will tell the story of his relationship with music and film in Mark Kermode: The Soundtrack Of My Life.
A wide range of programmes across BBC Four, BBC’s Asian Network as well as the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 will be dedicated to celebrating composers, songs and film scores.
Neil Brand’s three part series on BBC 4 will focus on the works of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Alfred Hitchcock and the scores they used in their films.
BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s The Story of Hip Hop in the Movies will have Roots Manuva and Pharrell Williams discussing how hip hop and films collaborate.
Director Ken Loach and composer George Fenton will discuss their 20-year partnership on BBC Radio 3 while Bobby Friction will explore the evolution of Bollywood film music in a show on the Asian Network.
Neil Brand, presenter and composer, said: ‘It's so fantastic that the BBC, the biggest producer of music content, is showing how music works for films this autumn with Sound Of Cinema.
‘Film scores demand an extraordinary degree of both musicianship and dramatic understanding on the part of their composers. Whilst creating potent, original music to synchronise exactly with the images, composers are also making that music as discreet, accessible and communicative as possible, so that it can speak to each and every one of us.’
Elsewhere, Mark Kermode will tell the story of his relationship with music and film in Mark Kermode: The Soundtrack Of My Life.
