Nov 23 2008
The man who gets your adrenalin pumping every week
The music on LOST is a crucial part of the show, more so than for any other show I can think of.
The man behind the music is Michael Giacchino. He was in the news recently when he was named musical director for the 2009 Oscars.
In addition to winning an Emmy in 2005 for composing the music for LOST, he was also nominated for an Oscar last year for the score of Ratatouille.
In the video podcast below, he talks about the way he works when he’s writing the music for LOST. He doesn’t watch an episode all the way through before he starts to compose, but instead watches, and writes for, one scene at a time. He says that feels like a more creative way of working.
On the podcast, he also introduces some of the members of the orchestra, who joke around or play short bits. A cello player plays the famous scary running-through-the-jungle music, and the percussionist shows off his strange instruments, including a piece of an airplane.
Giacchino says they only have three hours to get all the recording done! That’s just amazing.
