How Custom-Made Instruments Were the Key to ‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror’ and ‘Prehistoric Planet’ Scores

By Jazz Tangcay

Jazz Tangcay

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Custom-made instruments are the key to scoring for composers Anže Rozman, Kara Talve and musician Russell Emanuel.

Emanuel is a co-founder of the composer collective Bleeding Fingers Music along with Hans Zimmer and Steven Kofsky. Among the shows they’ve worked on that could grab voters’ attention are Apple TV’s “Prehistoric Planet.”

In the show’s prior season, they created custom instruments made from fossils, bones and dinosaur skull replicas and married them to a standard orchestra to create an otherworldly soundscape.

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