Alex Patsavas

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2009

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Alex Patsavas has been been filling up your portable music device with the non-mainstream/indie rock music you love without you even knowing it.She's mostly known for being the music supervisor for notable television series like The O.C, Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl & Mad Men. She talks about her most recent venture as music supervisor for the popular teen film The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie from Boston, Massachusetts.
0:03.0	Hey, this is Edmund from Montana.
0:05.0	Hi, I'm Dan from Atlantic Michigan.
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0:17.0	I'm Jesse Thorn, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:20.0	It's the Sound of Young America from MaximumFound.org and PRI, public radio, international.
0:30.0	Alex Putzakis is a veteran music supervisor.
0:35.0	She's placed any rock songs into shows like Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl and most notably perhaps the OC.
0:42.0	So I guess she has at least some responsibility for making this song so huge.
0:47.0	It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn.
1:07.0	I don't think you would expect the Sound of Young America to be doing an extended segment on the topic of the new Twilight film.
1:16.0	But I'm very glad to invite to this show the music director of that film.
1:22.0	She's also been the music director for numerous other films and television programs including such groundbreakers in the field of music direction as the OC and Grey's Anatomy and Mad Men.
1:36.0	As well as many great films including Piranha.
1:42.0	Cage Heat 3000.
1:44.0	Cage Heat 3000 which is now as I understand it you can correct me if I'm wrong Alex.
1:48.0	Cage Heat 3000 is not just a woman, a woman in prison film but a woman in prison in space film.
1:56.0	Correct.
1:57.0	That's amazing.
1:58.0	Directed by a very good friend of mine.
2:00.0	That's superb.
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