2015-12-11
10 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Transparent is an Amazon original series created by Jill Soloway.
It's about a family where the father, played by actor Jeffrey Tambor,
comes out to his children and to the world at large as transgender.
The first season was released in September 2014.
It was critically acclaimed and won a lot of awards,
including an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music.
In this episode, composer Dustin O'Halloran breaks down how he made the Transparent theme,
using an 80-year-old piano and channeling his own family nostalgia.
My name is Dustin O'Halloran, and I am the composer for Transparent.
Jill Soloway has been a really old friend of mine.
We've known each other for a pretty long time.
And a couple of years ago,
she was on a trip to Berlin and she came here and she was telling me about this new pilot she was working on.
And she said that she had been writing the script,
listening to the Piano Solos Volume 2 record that I made.
Like all good.
collaborations usually there's a friendship that starts and something that's more organic and I just love that it was just like her finding people that somehow she had connected with along the way to be a part of it.