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Bear McCreary Biography

Bear McCreary (born February 17, 1979) is an American composer and musician living in Los Angeles. He is best known for his work on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series and for the TV series Outlander and The Walking Dead.

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Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

Ideas, Sometimes, Old Ideas, Old, Detrimental

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

Cinematic, Fortunate, Littles, Perspective, Television

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

Cop, Identity, Inspiration, Struggle, Struggling

I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"

Thinking, People, Musical, Maybe, Sit

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

Audience, Composer, Experience, Film, Hours, Television

When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

Divorced, Showrunners, Like, Remarried, Change

I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.

Years, Television, Way, Process, Network

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

Important Relationships, Directors, Television, Director, Film

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.

Writing, Shows, Approach, Music, Stay, Write

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

Couple, Enough, Good, Good Enough, Master, Musician

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

Bernard, Genre, Jerry, Love, Music

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

Thinking, Different, Abnormal, Music, Way, Unusual

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

Lonely, Tunes, Violin, Original, Contemplative, Violins

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

Horror, Bigs, Difficult, Sense, Regard, Tension

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