When pop stars score films, the conversation follows them. The composers who actually wrote the music are rarely part of it. Harry Levin on an industry habit, the culture has stopped questioning.

What happens when the music that made a show leaves with the person who made it?

From cult horror to prestige drama, directors and music supervisors have been reaching for Portishead for thirty years. Here are some of our favourites.

From a cassette recorder in a Surrey bedroom to the biggest original film of 2026, Daniel Pemberton has always known how to build a world from unexpected materials.

Blank Mag presents the premiere of Anamnesis, a new audio-visual work from producer and composer Randall Dunn and visual artist Mark Dorf. Two practitioners whose collaboration here feels like an inevitable convergence.

The most remote layer of the ocean features freezing temperatures and almost total darkness, a threatening, yet tranquil environment lovingly rendered in the new film, ‘Midnight Zone’, by artist Julian Charrière. 

The Brontë Sound That Modern Cinema Keeps Recreating

Carly Paradis, the composer behind Line of Duty, swaps studio solitude for global stages with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, proving that variety across stage and screen sharpens her sound even more.

“How I started making art, it was always about drawing what I was hearing.”

Sarah Schachner on Scoring ‘Predator: Badlands’ and Reclaiming her Creativity.

GETME! owner, Alex Hislop, reflects on the beauty and shifting landscape of music and sound design in modern advertising.

The latest episode of The Blank Chat sits down with Emmy-winning composer Theodore Shapiro for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation about his remarkable three-decade career in film and television.

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch on collaboration, creative patience, and the quiet power of staying a little bit weird.

In his most defining year yet, composer Jeff Russo opens up about the creative rituals and artistic risks behind his ever-expanding body of work.

Cornel Wilczek shares inside his studio space and talks through how he approached the score for ‘Together’.

Dan Deacon reveals his five essential studio staples.

Producer and studio visionary Randall Dunn talks touring, risk, stewardship, and the human side of sonic innovation, charting a path for music that thrives beyond trends.

Faithless co-founder Sister Bliss reflects on the band’s fearless spirit of collaboration, the enduring influence of Maxi Jazz, and why electronic music should still nourish the soul as much as it moves the dancefloor.

Deftones have always skirted easy definitions - a band from Sacramento that forged a sound as restless and textured as the city they came from.

James Everingham reveals the five essential studio tools he uses to create his innovative film and TV scores, including his work on Apple TV+’s Chief of War with Hans Zimmer.