#92 | Lukas Burton | The Sound of Movie Trailers

Music producer Lukas Burton on London, Harvard and Cambridge, and becoming a master of movie trailer music. Lukas Burton is a music producer based in Los Angeles, but that is just the start of it. From London to Harvard to Cambridge, to making his own music to becoming the master of Movie Trailer music and the President of Calvary Music. Chapters 0:00 Welcome Lukas Burton 2:36 Why trailers need their own music 5:05 When a pitch shapes the campaign 7:31 Who gives the notes on a trailer 10:05 Getting people off the couch and into cinemas 12:31 Running a trailer music company 15:03 Orchestral sound from a laptop 17:33 Mixing for cinema speakers 20:03 Is trailer work protected in a downturn? 22:32 Only paid when the music gets used 25:02 Asking to be paid for pitches 27:32 Composers who came up through trailers 30:00 Inventive scores in independent film 32:30 Fear among studio executives 35:07 The Force Awakens trailer and John Williams 37:38 Four of the top ten most watched trailers 40:03 Do trailers give away too much? 42:30 A head for electronic music 45:00 UK garage and New York house 47:37 Detroit techno 50:01 DJing in New York and meeting Moby 52:38 Top of the Pops and the move to America 55:03 The hollowed-out music business 57:37 How little artists earn per record 1:00:04 Sony's unrippable CD 1:02:30 Streaming and bundling 1:05:05 Do new acts still need a record label? 1:07:31 The experience economy and ticket prices 1:10:00 Selling music catalogues 1:12:34 Finding and nurturing talent 1:15:07 AI and trailer music 1:17:30 The value of human fallibility 1:20:08 Space and pauses in music and comedy 1:22:39 A French superstar in Palm Springs 1:25:04 Working with JJ Abrams' people 1:27:35 The nuts and bolts of the business 1:30:06 What a producer does 1:32:36 Turned up to 11 The Ryan Pyle Podcast is ad-free by choice. If you enjoy these conversations, you can buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ryanpyle Ryan's TV series are streaming around the world. Follow the Podcast X: https://x.com/RyanPylePodcast Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpylepodcast Follow Ryan Pyle YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ryanjpyle Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryanpyle X: https://x.com/RyanPyle Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpyle https://www.ryanpyle.com