‘Only Murders In The Building’ Composer Siddhartha Khosla On The Evolution Of The Show’s Music – Sound & Screen TV
deadline.comThe pandemic complicated production on Season 1 of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, so composer Siddhartha Khosla was elated to be able to assemble musicians to create his dream theme song for Season 2. “When we first started working on this show, it was early in the pandemic.
So we were limited in terms of how many players we could have performed the score together,” Khosla said during a panel for the Hulu comedy at Deadline’s Sound and Screen: Television event. “This is the type of score that is in my dream world, it would sound like what it sounded like just now where you have an ensemble of musicians playing together, feeling the music and really coming together.” He continued, “Season 1 is a lot of me making little demos at home on my Mellotron and it was a much smaller, quirkier score.
Then we would have quartets come in and sort of pile quartets on top of quartets. It worked and it was definitely a thing, but second season, we were finally able to have more people in the room and it changed the dynamic.
When you have this many people together playing, something different happens.” Khosla also shared insight into how he worked alongside co-creator John Hoffman to map out what the hit series would sound like in Season 2.
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