There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.

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It will be an immersive experience, we're going to be building our own stage and it's going to be 360 degrees so you can see from anywhere in the arena and it should be really great visually. The sets we've designed are going to be reminiscent of some of the special moments in the show so it should be a great musical experience but also a great visual experience.

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Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

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I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.

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The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

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For me, always, the big inspiration really comes from talking with my creators, my showrunners and my producers, and seeing what is their vision for their project.

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We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.

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Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

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What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then another might ask you to do orchestral only.

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I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.

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I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.

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Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn't know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.

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I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

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Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

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At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

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I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.

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I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.

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Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

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I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.

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I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

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I like to have recognizable themes and sounds that really connect to the project and that you can identify with that particular project. My goal is always, 'When that theme comes on - even if you're not in the room - you hear it and say, 'Oh my show is starting, I gotta watch.'

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