EPISODE · Jun 5, 2021 · 1H 17M
Music Goes Hollywood!
from Back of the Cereal Box · host John Pyka Productions
The BOTCB Gang welcome Hollywood film composer Lucas Cantor to the show! Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters He finished Schubert’s 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall. He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan. He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix. He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel. In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants. He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016. In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP. In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples. NOT AN EPISODE TO MISS!!!
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The BOTCB Gang welcome Hollywood film composer Lucas Cantor to the show! Lucas Cantor is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, and Pyeong Chang. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. Lucas Co-Wrote the theme song for Major League Soccer on Fox with Dan Martinez Lucas delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity Lucas is the Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University Of Melbourne, Australia He composed music for the Netflix Anime Cannon Busters He finished Schubert’s 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall. He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space. A collaboration between Impossible foods, and the Wu Tang Clan. He currently writes music for DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free and for Cannon Busters (coming in 2019), both on Netflix. He wrote the theme and background music for the LA Times Podcast: The Reel. In 2017, Lucas scored the A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants. He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016. In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP. In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy. In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples. NOT AN EPISODE TO MISS!!!
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