Composer Jermaine Stegall and Composer Morgan Kibby - Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab
In this exclusive interview we chat with Composer Jermaine Stegall and Composer Morgan Kibby about their experience of being selected for the 2016 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound.
About the 2016 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab:
The Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs provide a space for composers, directors and sound designers to collaborate on the process of providing music and sound for film. Fellows participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of leading film composers and film music professionals acting as Creative Advisors. Each composer/director team will have their original scores for new independent film scenes performed live by a chamber orchestra.
About Composer Morgan Kibby:
White Sea, the moniker of L.A.based recording artist, composer and producer Morgan Kibby, was named Rolling Stone’s “Artist You Need to Know” in March 2014. Kibby, who previously collaborated and toured with French electronic group M83, has made a name for herself with her selfproduced debut album, I n Cold Blood, earning high praise from outlets like LA Weekly, which coined her “LA’s renaissance woman of pop.” 2016 sees Kibby collaborating with chef Craig Thornton of Wolvesmouth on his most recent Lucy Walker directed documentary for The New Yorker on Amazon, and contributing score and sound design to his newest art installation which opened in March at MOCA in Los Angeles.
About Composer Jermaine Stegall:
Originally from Joliet, Illinois, Jermaine Stegall has been working as a composer in Los Angeles for 12 years. After receiving his graduate certificate from U SC’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program, he interned with composer Marco Beltrami during the postproduction of I , Robot. He has worked as an orchestrator and conductor of original and additional music for both film and television at studios such as Warner Bros, Lionsgate, and NBC Universal Television.