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Eyes On Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

Bonus episode: Emmy Nominee Adam Taylor (The Handmaid's Tale Composer)

Eyes On Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

SBS Audio

The Handmaid's Tale, Tv & Film, Podcast, Podcasts, Tv Shows, After Shows, Sbs

4.7650 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It's 2021 Emmy Awards season and we're back with another bonus episode, interviewing some of The Handmaid's Tale's incredible nominees. Today we jump back into the Zoom room with The Handmaid's Tale's composer Adam Taylor. Adam gives us insights into how he creates the iconic sounds of The Handmaid's Tale. He talks through the process of creating a score for particular scenes of the show, with special attention to episode 403, 'The Crossing', which landed Adam a 2021 Emmy nomination. There is so much in here for fans of the show. You can rewatch the box set of season 4 at SBS On Demand. Stay in touch on Twitter at #EyesOnGilead (Find us at: @anythingbutfifi / @NatalieHambly / @HaideeIreland / @Sana_Qadar)

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0:00.0

I'm best when I function as like a fan writing music for the show so that my initial watch, my initial time I see the show, I'm taking all these notes of my emotional reactions.

0:21.6

You don't own me, I know your property, so take a shifting little bitty eye on me.

0:28.6

And I've been told, especially when they know it's a doozy of an episode, they'll actually be watching me on Zoom instead of the show.

0:36.6

Welcome to Eyes on Gilead, our podcast dedicated to The Handmaid's Tale.

0:41.9

We're dropping some special episodes in light of it being Emmy season, and we are joined

0:46.6

by a very special guest today, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

0:50.6

I'm Fiona Williams, and I'm an adjoin online coverage of movies and TV here at SBS. And I'm

0:55.3

joined by my friends, colleagues and fellow resistors, Natalie Hambly, managing editor of SBS

1:00.2

Voices. Hello. Haiti Island, channel manager of SBS on demand. Hi. And Suna Kada, host of

1:07.5

All In The Mind for ABC Radio National. Hi. Hello. It's good to see you all again, albeit over Zoom, because that's the way the world is.

1:17.2

Yeah, we're dropping these special episodes in light of it being Emmy season, so we've been

1:21.7

very lucky to rustle up some Emmy nominees.

1:25.0

And today, we're joined by the Handmaid's Tales composer, Adam Taylor,

1:29.5

who is nominated for specifically for episode three of season four, The Crossing, which we

1:35.5

refer to as the torture episode. But yeah, we're so lucky to have Adam here because he's been

1:41.3

on this show from the start. So it's going to be amazing just to talk about

1:45.5

crafting all this wonderfully rich score that accompanies this wonderful season. We're doing this

1:52.2

over Zoom. So we can see Adam's beautiful music studio where he's surrounded by a whole bunch of vintage

1:57.6

synths and keyboards and all this incredible equipment. So you don't have the benefit of that, but trust it, it's pretty gorgeous.

2:03.6

So what do you think?

2:05.1

Let's maybe just get into it.

2:06.2

We've got so many questions for Adam.

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