Michele Darling

Michele Darling is the chair of the Electronic Production and Design department at Berklee College of Music and teaches for Berklee Online. A sound designer, composer, and educator, she has worked on Sesame Street, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and projects for Ableton, HBO Family, and Toca Boca. She previously served as director of education at Dubspot and is the founder of the performance collective Girls Like Bass. At Berklee Online, she teaches Synthesis, Sampling, and Sound Design in Film Scoring: Electronic and Textural Resources, which she wrote.




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‘Halloween’ Theme: What Makes the Music so Scary?

The music from the 1978 film “Halloween” was revolutionary, not just because director John Carpenter also composed the score, but because of Carpenter’s adventurous use of early synth pads and stabs, which helped him create one of the most powerful and creepiest soundtracks of all time.

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