The 2019 Screen Music Awards are off and running again, and the 2019 contenders have been announced. There are a lot of musicians who work in the smaller, more voluntary end of the screen world, but only a small cohort who build a career on larger projects.
So the same names go round and round, but their work is exquisite. Practice does make perfect, and the discipline requires a deep understanding of composition, film, storytelling and found sound. And the discipline to realise that less is more.
