Insights: Creating the music for Steel Country
John’s trusty Appalachian dulcimer was called into action, e-bowing its way into becoming a main sonic feature of the score, whipping and gritting its way to the foreground as well as providing pedal type structures on which other elements could take the stage.
Watch the Hinterland theme on solo harp
A new version of the Hinterland / Y Gwyll title theme, for solo harp...
Recent work in the studio
We've been working hard all summer, with a number of projects in the pipeline - we can't say much yet but we can share the photos!
App: create your own soundtrack
We've made a creative new music app in collaboration with the BBC, where you create your own soundtrack to a clip from Hinterland.
Insights: ILIAD - creating a unique sense of time, place & environment
It was back in the early summer of 2013 that I first started discussions with Mike Pearson & Mike Brookes about Christopher Logue’s...
John features on BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema
"Opera is an opportunity to move outside the box." Hear John discuss the deep connections between opera and film music...
Celtic Media Festival success
We're very pleased that The Hunchback in the Park won the Celtic Media Festival Animation prize...
Insights: How to Score a Television Drama
the slightly scary but very exciting process of creating, from scratch, a sophisticated and tightly composed soundtrack...
Insights: JHM studio rebuild
Exactly half way through the massive but thrilling task of creating all the music for the new Welsh drama series Hinterland - Y Gwyll, colleagues at John Hardy Music have been...