27. One Song Can Reduce You. [Pete Gresser.]
This Is Your Mixtape
English - January 14, 2019 21:55 - 1 hour - 73.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMusic Interviews Music Music Commentary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Composer Pete Gresser joins Michael to discuss songs by Yazoo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo, Björk, and Anaïs Mitchell.
Pete Gresser is a composer and
occasional voice actor who lives with his husband and their incredibly old dog
in suburban Los Angeles. He’s written music for the soundtracks of over a
dozen games, the most recent release being Rex: Another
Island,
currently available on Steam. By his own admission, he’s terrible at social
media and has made it his 2019 resolution to attempt to feel shame for being
terrible at social media, but he makes no promises about actually improving.
Pete and Michael talk about video-game music, Arizona, compositional
practices, the reckoning of middle age, and how Björk taught him resilience
and pride as a closeted teen.
Pete’s Five Songs.
Don’t Go by Yazoo
(aka Yaz).
Scheherazade: Op. 35, II: The Story of the Kalendar
Prince by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov .
Simon’s Theme (from Super Castlevania
IV) by Masanori
Adachi and Taro Kudo.
Isobel by Björk.
Epic III (from Hadestown)
by Anaïs Mitchell.
Show Notes.
Pete’s website, where you can hear some of his
compositions.