Emmy-winning and two times Grammy-nominated Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, half of the celebrated Austin band S U R V I V E, have scored three seasons of the biggest pop culture phenomenon of recent years: the Netflix series Stranger Things. The duo’s dreamy, throwback score helped sell the nostalgic ode to when Carpenter and Spielberg were the tastemakers of the horror/fantasy genre. Series creators The Duffer Brothers fell in love with the band’s albums, which spin classic synths into a distinctly modern sound— and the resulting alchemy produced the most talked-about soundtrack of the year that garnered a Primetime Emmy Award win for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, two Grammy nominations for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, an ASCAP Composers' Choice Award nomination for TV Composer(s) of the Year, and a World Soundtrack Award nomination for TV Composer(s) of the Year.
2018 saw Dixon and Stein explore the worlds of Virtual Reality, with the Darren Aronofsky produced VR series, Spheres, written & directed by Eliza McNitt. The episodic run launched at the Sundance Film Festival with Spheres: Songs of Spacetime, which focuses on black holes and their roles in the universe, and won Best VR at the 2018 Venice Biennale Film Festival. Dixon and Stein also scored Matthew Libatique’s short film A Different Beyond, which was shot using early models of the new Fujifilm X-T3 camera system.
Early 2019 brought three new projects: National Geographic's Valley of the Boom, a hybrid documentary-drama chronicling the early days of Silicon Valley; three-part British series Butterfly which was recently picked up by Hulu in the US and Dixon & Stein’s first feature film score which also premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Rashid Johnson's dramatic directorial debut Native Son, the festival’s opening night film which subsequently sold to HBO.
They are currently working on S U R V I V E’s third album.
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