Composer Daniel Pemberton pushed a few boundaries and “made something really creative and different” when he scored 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” When he returned to score the sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” he knew he would have to “push it as far as we can go.”Pemberton says he had to build the score from the ground up, which was complicated.
“You’re trying not to make a score that sounds like other film scores.
You’re trying to invent your own language.”Inventing that language took experimentation, research and failure.
He explains, “I spent two years researching and developing this score, going through ideas, coming up with concepts and throwing them out.”The first piece he wrote was a sketch that ended up becoming the cues that open and end the film.
“You’re making a score that jumps around different worlds and characters, and everyone has got…
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