176 - The Music of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Academy Award-nominated composer Daniel Pemberton (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”) joins our guest host, music journalist Jon Burlingame, to discuss his score for the latest animated Spider-Man film. If you’ve seen it, then you already know it features incredible, cutting-edge animation. But it turns out Daniel’s approach to the score was equally “experimental.”

“As soon as I finished ‘Into the Spider-Verse,’ I was thinking about ‘Across [the Spider-Verse]’ because… as a composer, you don't often get a chance to have a kind of playground where you really can be very experimental and really push at the edges of what film music can be. And obviously, you want to try and do that. But not every movie will support that kind of approach. And with Spider-Verse, it really did. So I was very aware — if there was a sequel — of trying to build on what we created on the first one. Rather than say, ‘well we did this thing that was successful, let's just more of the same.’ It's more like, ‘let's see how much further we can push it.’”

— Daniel Pemberton, Composer, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

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