Composer Talk

About Composer Talk

Composer Talk is a podcast hosted by Matthew Wang where you’ll get to know acclaimed composers who are making the soundtracks of our lives. We all watch films, TV and digital media and know the important role that scoring plays in storytelling. In this podcast we learn about the artists who are creating the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Matthew Wang

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2020

Latest episode

19 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 98 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep: 98 Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Black Rabbit, Ozark)

   Host [Host Name] interviews composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans about their innovative approach to film and TV music production using hardware synths and unique sound processing.

2. 

   14 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep: 97 Hal Rosenfeld (Good Guy With A Gun)

   Host [Host Name] interviews composer, producer, and percussionist Hal Rosenfeld about his satirical musical album "Good Guy with a Gun" and his diverse career.

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   12 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep: 96 John Paesano (The Boroughs, Maze Runner)

   Composer John Paesano discusses his approach to scoring Netflix's "The Boroughs," blending orchestral grandeur with '80s and '90s influences to enhance character and story.

Inside a recent episode

Ep: 98 Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (Black Rabbit, Ozark)

Published 19 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I think between the two of us, we're extremely versatile. And it's like if you came to us with a love story, I feel like we'd nail it. If you came to us with an interplanetary science thing, we'd nail it. All the thrillers, we'd nail them. Haunted houses and horror films, we'd nail it. Comedies, we've done a couple. But we do it our way. Yeah, but never in a traditional way. Yeah, we don't do anything traditionally. We just kind of shy away from it because it's just not our way of doing it. And we feel like when directors come to us, they're looking for something slightly different. And that doesn't mean reinventing the wheel. […]

Who has been a guest on Composer Talk

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Danny Bensi
• Saunder Jurriaans
• Hal Rosenfeld
• John Paesano
• Keegan DeWitt

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

37 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

14 ratings