Mark Korven
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A singer/songwriter who settled into a career as a film and TV composer during the 1990s, Mark Korven is most closely associated with his ominous, part-electronic orchestral scores for the horror, sci-fi, and thriller genres. Though he made his film debut with the 1987 comedy I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, movies like 1997's Cube and the 2000 thriller Falling Through, along with numerous documentaries, brought more projects with tense subject matter his way. He worked on the TV crime series The Border from 2008 to 2010, and the independent horror film The Witch was a low-key hit in 2016. Thereafter, Korven's film music increasingly received soundtrack releases, as was the case for 2018's Our House and 2019's The Lighthouse.
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Korven showed an early affection for raucous rock music and began playing guitar before his teens. By the age of 17, he had found work in local bars playing with a number of bands. His tastes quickly expanded, and he began experimenting with other styles, including jazz fusion and progressive rock. In 1977, he enrolled at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College to study music, which included classes in jazz arranging and composition. When he graduated in the early '80s, he went back to working with cover bands as a stand-in guitarist. Around that time, he began writing tunes of his own...more
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Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Korven showed an early affection for raucous rock music and began playing guitar before his teens. By the age of 17, he had found work in local bars playing with a number of bands. His tastes quickly expanded, and he began experimenting with other styles, including jazz fusion and progressive rock. In 1977, he enrolled at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College to study music, which included classes in jazz arranging and composition. When he graduated in the early '80s, he went back to working with cover bands as a stand-in guitarist. Around that time, he began writing tunes of his own...more
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A singer/songwriter who settled into a career as a film and TV composer during the 1990s, Mark Korven is most closely associated with his ominous, part-electronic orchestral scores for the horror, sci-fi, and thriller genres. Though he made his film debut with the 1987 comedy I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, movies like 1997's Cube and the 2000 thriller Falling Through, along with numerous documentaries, brought more projects with tense subject matter his way. He worked on the TV crime series The Border from 2008 to 2010, and the independent horror film The Witch was a low-key hit in 2016. Thereafter, Korven's film music increasingly received soundtrack releases, as was the case for 2018's Our House and 2019's The Lighthouse.
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Korven showed an early affection for raucous rock music and began playing guitar before his teens. By the age of 17, he had found work in local bars playing with a number of bands. His tastes quickly expanded, and he began experimenting with other styles, including jazz fusion and progressive rock. In 1977, he enrolled at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College to study music, which included classes in jazz arranging and composition. When he graduated in the early '80s, he went back to working with cover bands as a stand-in guitarist. Around that time, he began writing tunes of his own
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Korven showed an early affection for raucous rock music and began playing guitar before his teens. By the age of 17, he had found work in local bars playing with a number of bands. His tastes quickly expanded, and he began experimenting with other styles, including jazz fusion and progressive rock. In 1977, he enrolled at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College to study music, which included classes in jazz arranging and composition. When he graduated in the early '80s, he went back to working with cover bands as a stand-in guitarist. Around that time, he began writing tunes of his own
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