Composer Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina) Talks with Composer Clint Mansell (Noah) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Two acclaimed film score composers discuss their craft, and movies today.

2:00 AM EDT on August 18, 2015

On this latest episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, two acclaimed English composers talk about their craft. Geoff Barrow of Portishead fame, who recently co-composed the score for Ex Machina, and frequent Darren Aronofsky collaborator Clint Mansell (Noah, Black Swan) discuss their creative processes, working with filmmakers, Ennio Morricone's low-opinion of modern film composers, the questionable quality of most films today, and much more. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.

The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink
2. "Falling"– Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, from the Ex Machina soundtrack

Episode engineered and edited by Elia Einhorn

Geoff Barrow

Geoff Barrow, an English producer/composer, is the founding member of the band Portishead and a member of the experimental trio BEAK>. He launched the independent label Invada Records in 2001, and as a producer has worked with bands as diverse as The Horrors, Quakers and Anika. Barrow was the music supervisor for Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop, and most recently created the score for Alex Garland's Ex Machina, along with Ben Salisbury. The pair also released Drokk: Music inspired by Mega-City One, an album of music composed for the film Dredd.

Clint Mansell

The former frontman of Pop Will Eat Itself, Clint Mansell is an Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated film composer. He is a longtime collaborator of groundbreaking director Darren Aronofsky, for whom Mansell has scored each of his major films, including Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Noah, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Pi. In addition, Mansell has scored Duncan Jones’ directorial debut Moon, Park Chan-wook's 2013 thriller Stoker, Dito Montiel's Man Down (out fall 2015) and Ben Wheatley's upcoming High-Rise.