{"id":21666,"date":"2015-04-24T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T22:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.221.30.245\/?p=21666"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:28:09","slug":"geoff-barrow-ben-salisburys-ex-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=21666","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Barrow &#038; Ben Salisbury Score &#8216;Ex Machina&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Geoff Barrow<\/strong>, the British music producer, composer and founding member of the band\u00a0<strong>Portishead,<\/strong>\u00a0and his film co-composer partner <strong>Ben Salisbury<\/strong> have received rave reviews for their score for the new DNA\/Universal hit movie<em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>Ex Machina,<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>written and directed by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. DNA Films producer Andrew Macdonald describes their film-scoring partnership as\u00a0<em>\u201csetting an incredibly high bar of creative skill and integrity. Their music is brilliant, unique and truly cinematic\u201d<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Earlier Geoff\u00a0wrote the original score, and was music supervisor for graffiti artist Banksy\u2019s Oscar Nominated documentary feature film\u00a0<strong>Exit Through The Gift Shop<\/strong>. \u00a0Emmy Nominated Ben\u2019s recent movie credit includes the 2013 documentary feature\u00a0<strong>Beyonce \u2013 Life Is But A Dream<\/strong>\u00a0as well as the last three of the BBC\u2019s David Attenborough\u2019s<strong>\u00a0Life Of \u2026\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0series. Together, the pair also write and perform as electronic act\u00a0<strong>Drokk,<\/strong>\u00a0and in 2012 they released to universal acclaim \u201cfor it\u2019s cinematic style\u201d the album\u00a0<strong>Drokk: Music Inspired By Mega-City One<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Portishead\u2019s tracks have featured in more than 60 films and tv dramas and Ben has more than 100 film and tv composing credits to his name. They met playing football in Bristol where they both live and first worked together on a unique concert at Bristol\u2019s famed Colston Hall venue featuring acts from Geoff\u2019s own Invada Records label and the iconic Emerald Ensemble for which Ben did the arrangements.\u00a0This led onto the Drokk project and then the film scoring partnership.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury on Rolling Stone.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/premieres\/hear-the-ex-machina-score-by-portisheads-geoff-barrow-and-ben-salisbury-20150403\">http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/premieres\/hear-the-ex-machina-score-by-portisheads-geoff-barrow-and-ben-salisbury-20150403<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">[vc_video link=&#8217;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cT-jQizEbqk&#8217;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Barrow, the British music producer, composer and founding member of the band\u00a0Portishead,\u00a0and his film co-composer partner Ben Salisbury have received rave reviews for their score for the new DNA\/Universal hit movie\u00a0Ex Machina,\u00a0written and directed by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. DNA Films producer Andrew Macdonald describes their film-scoring partnership&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=21666\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geoff Barrow &#038; Ben Salisbury Score &#8216;Ex Machina&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21666"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21672,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions\/21672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}