Alot
of people think film music has to be big orchestras and big melodies,’ says ace composer Daniel Pemberton. ‘But it can be so many different things.’ From writing themes for Love Island and Peep Show to scoring The Counsellor, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Michael Mann’s upcoming Ferrari, Pemberton, 45, has proved this time and again. Now that’s music to our ears…
You started composing for TV, including the first season of C4’s Peep Show and that popping sound between scenes, right? Here’s an interesting fact: a lot of that was recorded down a well in Majorca! I was on a family holiday. And there was a well in the back of the garden. A big stone well that had a crazy echo. If I find a cool sound, I’m always trying to catch it. And so I recorded all these noises all down a well! That became the basis of the Peep Show sound.