Matt Morton is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer/producer from Columbus, Ohio. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, and vocalist for The Shantee (rock band), and has recorded several albums and opened for bands including George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, Blues Traveler, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, the Neville Brothers, Widespread Panic, and The National. His feature-length scores include 'Scaring the Fish', John Urbano's Panama documentary 'Beauty of the Fight', the Emmy-winning Sundance documentary 'Dinosaur 13', and his latest documentary score is for 'Apollo 11'.
APOLLO 11 is director/producer Todd Douglas Miller’s epic feature documentary capturing the tense, exhilarating days and hours of humanity’s first landing on the moon debuted in IMAX theaters on March 1, 2019 and for television on Sunday, June 23 on CNN. Primarily comprised from newly-discovered 70mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of audio recordings, Miller and his team worked closely with the National Archives and NASA to locate, digitize, and restore all sources of material related to the Apollo 11 mission. The result, ‘APOLLO 11,’ offers viewers a singular, immersive experience of the original Apollo 11 mission, with unmatched image clarity and pristine sound.
In this episode, we recognize the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission as Matt Morton reveals both inspirations and challenges of scoring the epic documentary. He talks about his desire to use and feature sounds, instruments and effects only available at the time of the Apollo 11 launch in 1969. Morton reveals some of the challenges he faced upon making this decision and how he consulted with the synth manufacturer Moog, among others, on how to reach his goal of authenticity. He also dives into some of his escapades in adding reverb and a unique rhythm he developed for a climactic track "We Must Be Bold."
ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS
02:35 - The Burdens and the Hopes
13:58 - Transearth Injection
16:19 - We Must be Bold
NOTES
CNN will have encore showings of APOLLO 11 on Saturday, June 29 and Saturday, July 20, at 9:00 PM ET.
SOUNDTRACK
The official soundtrack was released digitally on March 8, 2019 by Milan Records and will see a physical CD release on June 28, 2019. It can be purchased on Amazon.com or on iTunes and can be streamed on Spotify or Apple Music.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER
You can find out more about and hear more music by Matt Morton at his official site https://www.mattmortonmusic.com/ or follow him on twitter and instagram @mattmortonmusic
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