Why ‘Only Murders in the Building’ and ‘This is Us’ Composer Siddhartha Khosla Wrote Differently for Selena Gomez vs. Mandy Moore
18.08.2022 - 22:57
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the score as much as they did the sterling chemistry of Gomez, Martin and Martin Short, the mismatched trio of sleuthers residing at the Arconia, the old Manhattan apartment building where they uncover a murder. Each of them, Khosla says, has their own distinct musical disposition.“Selena’s Mabel definitely has a modern sound, a little more atmospheric, a little darker.
Charles [played by Steve Martin] has a very regal sound to him, and Marty Short’s Oliver, has a sort of flamboyance to him, consistent with his role as a New York theater director. So with him there’s a little bit of a jazzy, more playful element.”Khosla is nominated for the main title theme, and also for his work in the Season 1 episode “The Boy from 6B,” which abandoned all dialogue for its ASL-driven story of a father and Deaf son (Nathan Lane and James Caverly).
Told only with sound effects and potent doses of Khosla’s hushed orchestrations, the action was made to feel like a silent film might.“Some of the early conversations involved the episode being entirely silent,” Khosla recalls. “But as we started editing the episode, it became clear the music would play a very integral role in helping tell the story.
I think in terms of melody a lot, I’m a singer-songwriter even before I was a composer, so a lot of my compositions have always been driven by the melody. And so, on an episode like this with no dialogue, the lead cello line or melody ended up kind of being your dialogue.
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