Vicious (2025) - What Did Composer Tom Schraeder Learn From Scoring Vicious and The Dark and the Wicked?
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Tom Schraeder is a songwriter and composer and he scored the 2025 Brian Bertino film, Vicious,. He talks to Nicole Barlow and Ryan Pak and scoring the film as well as his previous scores like The Dark and the Wicked, on this episode of Soundtrack Your LIfe.
Tom also discusses his path to becoming a composer, collaborating with rock musicians such as Mars Williams (Psychadelic Furs), Nels Cline (Wilco). Clive Deamer (Portishead, Radiohead), and Stan Harrison (saxophonist for Bowie, Talking Heads, etc). He also talks about a musician that he may collaborate with in the future that Nicole and Ryan are very excited about.
Nicole and Ryan also ask Tom about directors that he'd love to work with in the future, and they give flowers to the unsung heroes in soundtracks: sound editors and designers.
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