{"id":369,"date":"2012-11-19T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=369"},"modified":"2013-04-25T07:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:14:22","slug":"penka-kouneva-a-composers-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Penka Kouneva: A Composer&#8217;s Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2132286\/height\/300\/width\/300\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Born in Bulgaria, classically trained composer Penka Kouneva has spent the past 13 years working primarily as a top orchestrator for some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest composers. Her credits include the <strong>Transformers<\/strong> films, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/a\/CD_0160_AngelsDemons2009.htm\">Angels &amp; Demons<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5724\">M<\/a>] (2009), <strong>The Hole<\/strong> (2009), and <strong>Hostel I<\/strong> and <strong>II<\/strong>, plus a multitude of video games.<\/p>\n<p>As a solo composer, Kouneva\u2019s tackled several indie productions (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/m\/CD_0248_MidnightMovie2008.htm\">Midnight Movie<\/a> <\/strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1779\">M<\/a>]), but her best work is the concept album <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/v2z\/CD_0401_WarriorsOdyssey2012.htm\">A Warrior\u2019s Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5716\">M<\/a>], written for a fictional video game. Part demo CD and personal project designed to challenge her own skills, WO features a strong blend of folk themes and muscular writing which reflects her adeptness in the action genre.<\/p>\n<p>In our conversation, Kouneva recalls her entry into film scoring, her mentoring years, and the challenges of working within the demanding Hollywood system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Bulgaria, classically trained composer Penka Kouneva has spent the past 13 years working primarily as a top orchestrator for some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest composers. Her credits include the Transformers films, Angels &amp; Demons [M] (2009), The Hole (2009), and Hostel I and II, plus a multitude of video games. As a solo composer, Kouneva\u2019s tackled several indie productions (Midnight Movie [M]), but her best work is the concept album A Warrior\u2019s Odyssey [M], written for a fictional video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,57,15],"tags":[94,95],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-liberated-syndication","category-podcast-interviews","tag-penka-kouneva","tag-warriors-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}