Michael Wandmacher

Michael Wandmacher
Born	(1967-10-29) October 29, 1967 (age 57) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nationality	United States
Occupation	composer

Michael Wandmacher (born October 29, 1967) is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games.[1] He has worked on numerous well-known projects, including Piranha 3D, Punisher: War Zone, Bloodborne, Twisted Metal, and The Goldbergs.[2] Most recently, he has worked on Underworld: Blood Wars, succeeding previous series composers Paul Haslinger and Marco Beltrami.

Life and career

Wandmacher was born in Minneapolis.^[citation needed] He began his career composing music for local news media and television commercials before scoring short and feature films by local filmmakers. While following a series of email exchanges that started via a film music newsgroup, Wandmacher met Alan Silvestri and was invited to Los Angeles to participate in several scoring sessions.[3] They composed music for the English-language releases of several Jackie Chan films including Armour of God and Drunken Master II. He eventually found success with the black comedy horror film Modern Vampires. Wandmacher co-composed the score with Danny Elfman, the brother of the film's director Richard Elfman. Wandmacher permanently relocated to Los Angeles.

The majority of Wandmacher's work consists of genre films particularly horror and thriller films. In 2015, Wandmacher composed the score to the role-playing video game Bloodborne.[4]

Wandmacher also creates remixes under the pseudonym "Khursor". As such, he has worked with Godhead including a track on The Shadow Realigned album.[5] The Khursor remix of Sting's Every Breath You Take was featured on the trailer for the third season of The Americans.[6][7]

Works

Theatrical films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1986	Armour of God	Jackie Chan Eric Tsang	International release
1992	Twin Dragons	Ringo Lam Tsui Hark
1993	Supercop 2	Stanley Tong
1994	Drunken Master II	Lau Kar-leung
1996	Street Gun	Travis Milloy	—
1998	Modern Vampires	Richard Elfman	—
	With or Without You	Wendell Jon Andersson	—
1999	Freestyle: The Victories of Dan Gable	Kevin Kelley	—
2000	Farewell, My Love	Randall Fontana	—
2001	The Accidental Spy	Teddy Chan	International release
	Max Keeble's Big Move	Tim Hill	—
	On the Borderline	Michael Oblowitz	—
2003	From Justin to Kelly	Robert Iscove	Composed with Greg Siff
2005	Cry Wolf	Jeff Wadlow	—
2007	The Killing Floor	Gideon Raff	—
	Man of Two Havanas	Vivien Lesnik Weisman	—
2008	Never Back Down	Jeff Wadlow	—
	Train	Gideon Raff	—
	Punisher: War Zone	Lexi Alexander	—
2009	My Bloody Valentine 3D	Patrick Lussier	—
2010	Freakonomics	Various	—
	Piranha 3D	Alexandre Aja	—
2011	Drive Angry[8]	Patrick Lussier	—
2012	Werewolf: The Beast Among Us	Louis Morneau	—
2013	The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia[9]	Tom Elkins	—
	The Last Exorcism Part II	Ed Gass-Donnelly	—
2014	13 Sins	Daniel Stamm	—
2016	Underworld: Blood Wars[10]	Anna Foerster	—
2017	Voice from the Stone	Eric Dennis Howell	—
	A Symphony of Hope	Brian Weidling	—
2018	Patient Zero	Stefan Ruzowitzky	—
2019	Trick	Patrick Lussier	—

Television films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2004	Crimes of Fashion	Stuart Gillard	—
2009	Ben 10: Alien Swarm	Alex Winter	—

Television series

Year	Title	Notes
1997	Tokyo Pig	US version
2002	She Spies	—
2005–2006	Night Stalker	10 episodes
2006	South Beach	9 episodes
2011–2012	Breaking In	19 episodes
2013–2023	The Goldbergs	163 episodes
2017	Imaginary Mary	5 episodes
2018	Into the Dark	Episode: "Flesh & Blood"
2019–2020	Schooled	34 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Notes
2005	Madagascar	—
2006	Over the Hedge	—
2008	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	—
2010	Singularity	Composed with Charlie Clouser
2012	Twisted Metal[11]	—
2015	Bloodborne	Composed with Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Yuka Kitamura, Nobuyoshi Suzuki and Cris Velasco

References

1. "Michael Wandmacher « A Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project". www.haitisymphony.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01.
2. "Michael Wandmacher « A Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project". www.haitisymphony.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
3. "Interview with Michael Wandmacher :: Film Music Magazine". www.filmmusicmag.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
4. Gamephilosophe (2014-07-24). "The Game Philosophe: Bloodborne Composer Revealed". The Game Philosophe. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
5. Godhead website
6. Zuckerman, Esther (10 Dec 2014). "'The Americans' will be watching you in season 3 trailer". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 15 Jan 2017.
7. Leas, Ryan (5 Feb 2015). "The Best Soundtrack Moments Of January 2015: Game Of Thrones, The Americans, A Most Violent Year, & More". Stereogum. Billboard Music. Retrieved 15 Jan 2017.
8. "Michael Wandmacher enjoys a challenge". screen/read. Alienus Media. 6 Mar 2011. Retrieved 14 Jan 2017.
9. Hasan, Mark R. (29 Jul 2013). "Michael Wandmacher: Crafting the Nightmarish Sounds of The Haunting in Connecticut 2 – Ghosts of Georgia". Bighead Amusements. Retrieved 15 Jan 2017. Michael Wandmacher is one of horror's most in-demand composers
10. Rea, Darren. "Underworld: Blood Wars Original Motion Picture Score". www.sci-fi-online.com. Retrieved 14 Jan 2017. I have to admit that in the past I've not been overly struck by Wandmacher's work, so it was great to finally see a project where he's allowed to flex his creative muscles and deliver something a little more in depth than clichéd horror fare.
11. Amond, Dean (10 Feb 2012). "Michael Wandmacher Scores Twisted Metal". The Paranoid Gamer. Retrieved 14 Jan 2017. Composer Michael Wandmacher scores SCEA and Eat Sleep Play's Twisted Metal for the PlayStation Network. Twisted Metal is the longest running franchise in PlayStation history. Michael Wandmacher scores the eighth installment, creating an individual theme for each character.

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