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Michael Picton, composer of Marvel Universe LIVE!, SyFy’s Flash Gordon and the upcoming Nick Jr television show Mutt & Stuff joins Enterprise Radio.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Michael Picton discuss the following:
- On the first day of scoring a new project, where do you begin? What do you do first?
- What do you do when you have writer’s block and can’t come up with the right tune?
- Was it intimidating coming into a project like Marvel Universe LIVE!, since the franchise is so successful and some of the Marvel film scores are so iconic?
- What do you think the best software program, for creating scores, out right now is?
- When scoring a project do you think it is best to divide it up in 15 minute increments to not get overwhelmed? What order do you score, lets say a television episode?
Duration: 11:42
Michael Picton is an award-winning composer writing for film, television, theatre, concert, branding, advertising, and circus. His network themes for PBS, CNN, Amazon and others are broadcast continuously around the world; his circus and theater music can be heard in concert halls, arenas and theaters across North America; his media work includes TV series, feature films, documentaries, promos and ads.
Michael earned degrees in composition and piano at McGill University, Montreal. While still a student, he was awarded the SOCAN Hugh Le Caine award for electronic music. After graduation, he worked for several years as a composer and orchestrator in Montreal before running away with the circus as keyboardist for Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam. Michael left tour in 2002 to return to his career as a full-time composer.
The Grand Prize winner of the 2004 Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition, Michael was chosen from a field of over 600 aspiring composers to score the epic 1926 Greta Garbo silent film, The Temptress for TCM.
In 2006 Michael composed the score and songs for his first circus, Bellobration, the 137th edition of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey. He has gone on to create music for seven more Ringling Brothers shows with Feld Entertainment as well as music for Disney Live and, most recently, the arena spectacle Marvel Universe Live. He has composed three shows in an ongoing collaboration with the company Cirque Mechanics: Boom Town, Cirque Mechanics with Orchestra, and Pedal Punk.
Michael composed the score to the SyFy prime time network series Flash Gordon. His theme to the VH1 reality show I Want to Work for Diddy received a BMI Film & TV award in 2009.
Creating a unique fusion of sound, style and emotion for every new project, Michael works from his Brooklyn studio for clients around the world.
Website: www.michaelpicton.com
