Abominable and the Invisible City Composer Interview with George Shaw
George discusses scoring Abominable and the Invisible City, an animated series from DreamWorks, including crafting original themes for mythical Chinese creatures, bringing Chinese culture and instrumentation into the music, how the opportunity arose from the Universal Composers Initiative, and recording violinist Stephanie Yu.
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0:00 Intro
1:09 Chinese Instrumentation
1:43 Universal Composers Initiative
2:40 Fenghuang's Theme
3:01 Recording Chinese Wind Instruments and Lion Drum
3:30 Recording Yi's Violin with Stephanie Yu
3:47 Authenticity in Scoring
4:11 Growing Up Asian American
ABOMINABLE AND THE INVISIBLE CITY is a comedy adventure series that continues the wild and wooly fun of DreamWorks Animation's Abominable. Through Everest the yeti, Yi, Jin, and Peng know that there’s a whole magical world out there, and now it’s even closer than they think! When they discover that their surroundings are teeming with magical creatures in need of their help, the kids will set out on extraordinary and heartfelt adventures throughout their city and beyond. Streaming on Hulu and PeacockTV!
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