David Norland is an English composer living and working in Los Angeles. Most recently he composed the score to the current HBO film “My Dinner With Herve” (HBO 2018) starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan. His work with Emmy-winning director Sacha Gervasi includes the award-winning documentary “Anvil! The Story Of Anvil”, which won the IDA Best Feature award, an Emmy award, the Indie Spirit Best Doc award, and numerous other best doc awards around the world.

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Composer David Norland discusses the importance of showing up and being as useful as possible.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

  • Coming to California
  • Commercials to movies
  • Royalties from Prime Time TV
  • Raising awareness of your work
  • Not being happy with your reel
  • Showing up daily
  • Positioning yourself
  • Lessons learned at each stage
  • Telling someone else’s story
  • Staying excited as a composer
  • Pushing yourself forward
  • Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies
  • Putting yourself in places where you can develop relationships
  • Being as useful as possible

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This episode was edited by E.J. Sadler at Studio184.