Soundtracking the Age of Monsters
Film music budgets are already at historic lows, and AI is by some claiming to be the final nail in the coffin for commissioned art. But that’s just a market fever dream—Exhibit A is the fourth wave of film music that rumbles on the horizon. As Gramsci wrote from the fascists’ prison: “The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”