Composer Duncan Thum on Netflix's Chef's Table
In this exclusive interview we talk with Composer Duncan Thum about his role providing a sonic landscape for the second season of Netflix’s Chef’s Table. Chef’s Table goes inside the lives and kitchens of six of the world’s most renowned international chefs. Each episode focuses on a single chef and their unique look at their lives, talents and passion from their piece of culinary heaven.
ABOUT COMPOSER DUNCAN THUM:
Duncan is an Emmy nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. A host of sonic explorations lead Duncan from co-forming LA’s d.i.y. music scene fixture Pizza! to performance at the Disney Hall with Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City: Symphony for 100 guitars. Duncan’s muse crystallized in writing music for film, where story and image provide a poignant context for his eclectic background.
Notable credits include an Emmy nominated score for Netflix’s “Chef’s Table”, VICE Media’s “Broadly”, animated series “Ninjago”, feature films “Thou Wast Mild And Lovely”, “Bodyslam: Revenge of the Banana!”, “The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On”, “Keeping Country” and an award winning score for the short film “The Restoration”. Duncan is a graduate of USC’s esteemed SMPTV film scoring program.