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Russell Landau is an American composer of film and television scores and themes including seaQuest 2032, Survivor, Fear Factor, and Pirate Master for which he won an Emmy in 2008. He is an alumnus of the University of Bridgeport class of 1977 (South End, Bridgeport, Connecticut ).
Russ Landau, Emmy and Grammy award winning composer for TV and film. Composer of the ubiquitous Survivor theme.
Russ Landau. Russ travels the world recording and incorporating the ancient (indigenous) music of the cultures he visits into his scores...and a bit of their soul into his heart.
- The Origins of “Ancient Voices,” The Survivor Theme Song
- How Composing For Survivor Works
- Scoring Survivor Became More Technical, Less Creative
- How Russ Landau Got Started Composing
- Russ Landau’s Post-Survivor Future
The music that opens every episode of every season of Survivor, and that seems to perfectly calibrated to the show’s sensibilities, was actually not written initially for Survivor. “I wrote that piece years before Survivor, just as a piece of music—when I used to do more of that, just writing for writing,” Landau told me, leaning back in his chair....
Landau and Burnett were friends before Survivor, having come to their friendship in an unexpected way: after a fight their wives had over a parking space at their kids’ Montessori school. “They became best friends, and we became best friends for a while—for a while. Everything’s changed. Mark’s life has changed hugely,” he said. Landau and Burnett ...
The “editorial pool” he referenced is a vast digital music library. Landau says that was “a system that I basically created for Fear Factor and Survivor, to make the scoring easier, because there was wall-to-wall music. We would just crank out music, and give it in all these different categories to the editors, and then they would cut it in. So bas...
“I always wanted to” score movies and TV, Landau said. “I realized that was the best medium. I think Star Wars had come out; John Williams blew me away. I probably saw it five times the first week it came out just because I couldn’t believe the music. I love John Williams; to this day, he’s an idol.” During his sophomore year of college, Landau cha...
The jacket he now wears while flying his plane, a Cirrus SR22, is one from SeaQuest. While he went on to composed Survivor, Fear Factor, and many other reality shows, in addition to films, his music shows up everywhere, thanks in part to the library he created and people now license clips from. “I’ll be watching TV late at night, and flipping throu...
Russell Landau is a composer of film and television scores and themes including Survivor and Fear Factor. After completing university, Russ Landau moved to New York City, where he worked as a session musician and joined the Paul Winter Consort as their bassist.
Russ Landau, composer of the ubiquitous Survivor theme, had his first weekly episodic series and Emmy nomination with SeaQuest DSV (1995-96) and has continued a steady run of hits including Survivor, Fear Factor, Average Joe, The Net, and many other popular television series.
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