If you know me personally on any level, you know that I’m a huge Marvel fan. I have seen every MCU movie multiple times, and I treat an Avengers movie premier as something of a holiday. So years ago when I saw the announcement from Square Enix that they were working on an Avengers game, I was very excited to see what they’d come up with.
Enter composer Bobby Tahouri: the man behind the super heroic score to Marvel’s Avengers. Bobby also scored a little game called Rise of the Tomb Raider, and contributed music to Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Shrek the Third.
And did I mention he contributed music to the 2008 Iron Man film?
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In this interview, Bobby tells me about his approach to scoring the latest Marvel game, which he’s been working on since 2016!! We talk instrumentation, composing as a trained pianist (and why he avoids the piano in his writing process), and more. ENJOY!
Bobby’s BIO:
Composer Bobby Tahouri is known for his bold and dramatic scores ranging across a variety of genres and multimedia. His video game soundtracks include the superheroic score to 2020’s Marvel’s Avengers and the critically-acclaimed Rise of the Tomb Raider, as well as contributing additional music for Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Shrek the Third.
In the film and television space, Tahouri scored Nickelodeon’s highly rated animated series Shimmer and Shine, and composed the main title theme for the Biography Channel/LMN show The Haunting Of, which aired for seven seasons. He also scored the Netflix original comedy feature Girlfriend’s Day, produced by and starring Bob Odenkirk, as well as award-winning documentaries Best Worst Movie and The American Scream.
In 2019, he co-produced a cover of “The Chain” with Evanescence for the Gears of War 5 video game trailer. The song and music video has garnered over 5.7 Million views on YouTube.
Tahouri lives in his native city of Los Angeles where he began playing piano at the age of seven, and hasn’t stopped since.
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