Dan Golding
@dangolding.com
Professor and Chair of Media Comms at Swinburne University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
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Rehearsals for our Music of Joe Hisaishi show with the Sydney Symphony. Working at the Opera House never gets old. Very few tix remaining if anyone’s keen - see you there?
September 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Rehearsals for our Music of Joe Hisaishi show with the Sydney Symphony. Working at the Opera House never gets old. Very few tix remaining if anyone’s keen - see you there?
My exact reaction in order listening to the new Superman soundtrack
July 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
My exact reaction in order listening to the new Superman soundtrack
July 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I did a *really* silly thing last week with the brilliant Orchestra Victoria, and premiered my newest work, Untitled Concerto for Orchestra and Honk, with myself as the soloist. Thanks to everyone who came along.
July 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I did a *really* silly thing last week with the brilliant Orchestra Victoria, and premiered my newest work, Untitled Concerto for Orchestra and Honk, with myself as the soloist. Thanks to everyone who came along.
Anyway it’s actually the first time I have heard an orchestra play something I wrote and I’m pinching myself that it actually all works. Cannot thank Orchestra Victoria enough for making it all happen. There are some tix still available if you’re in Melbourne Thurs or Fri
July 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Anyway it’s actually the first time I have heard an orchestra play something I wrote and I’m pinching myself that it actually all works. Cannot thank Orchestra Victoria enough for making it all happen. There are some tix still available if you’re in Melbourne Thurs or Fri
a longlist and i immediately realised i hadn't included Amyl and the Sniffers so back we go (selected ten absolutely not indicative of actual ten)
June 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
a longlist and i immediately realised i hadn't included Amyl and the Sniffers so back we go (selected ten absolutely not indicative of actual ten)
I’m in Perth rn hosting some Art of the Score concerts of John Williams music with the West Australia Symphony Orchestra. This morning we did some edu shows for 22 schools and a kid posted this
June 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I’m in Perth rn hosting some Art of the Score concerts of John Williams music with the West Australia Symphony Orchestra. This morning we did some edu shows for 22 schools and a kid posted this
Less-lethal bullets can cause fatal injuries
June 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Less-lethal bullets can cause fatal injuries
In this year’s Classic 100, vote for your favourite piano pieces. You have until just the end of the weekend to do so.
You can actually vote for my music for Untitled Goose Game, which I was not fat-headed enough to do but would be chuffed if you might consider it yourself classic100.abc.net.au
You can actually vote for my music for Untitled Goose Game, which I was not fat-headed enough to do but would be chuffed if you might consider it yourself classic100.abc.net.au
May 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In this year’s Classic 100, vote for your favourite piano pieces. You have until just the end of the weekend to do so.
You can actually vote for my music for Untitled Goose Game, which I was not fat-headed enough to do but would be chuffed if you might consider it yourself classic100.abc.net.au
You can actually vote for my music for Untitled Goose Game, which I was not fat-headed enough to do but would be chuffed if you might consider it yourself classic100.abc.net.au
One of the biggest surprises for me in the final arc of Andor was this. Between Bissell’s writing, Kieron Gillen’s comics, and of course Charlie Brooker, the pantheon of former videogame critics is not shabby.
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
One of the biggest surprises for me in the final arc of Andor was this. Between Bissell’s writing, Kieron Gillen’s comics, and of course Charlie Brooker, the pantheon of former videogame critics is not shabby.
From The Tally Room blog www.tallyroom.com.au/60426
May 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
From The Tally Room blog www.tallyroom.com.au/60426
Star Wars has become one of the most pervasive pop culture languages we have for people to talk about politics. It’s something Andor leans into particularly but it is also one of the fundamental appeals of the franchise: taking earthly politics and mythologising them.
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Star Wars has become one of the most pervasive pop culture languages we have for people to talk about politics. It’s something Andor leans into particularly but it is also one of the fundamental appeals of the franchise: taking earthly politics and mythologising them.
Deserved win for Best Original Score for The Brutalist. A remarkable moment in the score is the intermission, which is a fifteen-minute recording of pianist John Tilbury sitting at the piano and figuring out the theme for the character of Erzsébet - artistic creation, documented in music.
March 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Deserved win for Best Original Score for The Brutalist. A remarkable moment in the score is the intermission, which is a fifteen-minute recording of pianist John Tilbury sitting at the piano and figuring out the theme for the character of Erzsébet - artistic creation, documented in music.
Super fun to be at the ICC in Sydney tonight hosting our Art of the Score concert of the music of Hans Zimmer with the SSO. There’s a surprise in tonight’s programme that is an Australian premiere, too.
February 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Super fun to be at the ICC in Sydney tonight hosting our Art of the Score concert of the music of Hans Zimmer with the SSO. There’s a surprise in tonight’s programme that is an Australian premiere, too.
This list is… interesting to say the least. The Nine Inch Nails boys have done well at the Oscars but to not have Challengers here is silly.
Going by the often successful principle that the winner will be the one most likely to annoy film score fans there’s a pretty clear favourite here I think.
Going by the often successful principle that the winner will be the one most likely to annoy film score fans there’s a pretty clear favourite here I think.
January 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This list is… interesting to say the least. The Nine Inch Nails boys have done well at the Oscars but to not have Challengers here is silly.
Going by the often successful principle that the winner will be the one most likely to annoy film score fans there’s a pretty clear favourite here I think.
Going by the often successful principle that the winner will be the one most likely to annoy film score fans there’s a pretty clear favourite here I think.
Cracking work on between 15 min rotations of the main Van Gogh show if I do say so myself
January 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Cracking work on between 15 min rotations of the main Van Gogh show if I do say so myself
Still not sure how this was Gladiator 2 and not Blackadder 5
December 12, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Still not sure how this was Gladiator 2 and not Blackadder 5
You got anything harder @darcywsmith.bsky.social @jessicashipard.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
You got anything harder @darcywsmith.bsky.social @jessicashipard.bsky.social
