Carson Zuck (they/he) is a non-binary contemporary-classical and film composer in the Boston-area.

 

Carson's professional journey as a film composer started in 2022 with the admittance and attendance at both the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (BM' in Music Composition, applied concentrate in Conducting) and Berklee College of Music (minoring in Screen Scoring and Music Production and Recording). During their time at these institutions, they have studied with various notable composers such as Timothy McCormack, Martha Bourne, Kevin Douchette, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Marti Epstein, and Victoria Cheah, among others. In addition to their 2022 studies, they achieved a perfect score for their Winter 2022 submission for the International Indie Film Music Competition and landed an impressive 4th place out of 500 submissions. Carson's recent concentration on contemporary-classical aesthetics in film scoring has placed them strategically into their several artistic ecosystems of which they occupy today. 

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Carson Zuck has been hired to score films across several different states and academic institutions such as the University of Michigan, Chapman University, and Emerson College. In total, they have composed for an impressive 13 different films, two of which being feature films, in the 2024 year alone. Carson was also welcomed onto Berklee's Film Scoring Network Board as a Board Member, and then accepted into the Young Composer's Community.

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recent interests​

 

It is Carson's firm belief, as outlined by Andy Hill in his book, "Scoring The Screen", that the current and future aesthetics of film music are leaning toward composing from "inside the film" (i.e, Thomas Newman, Collin Stetson, Bernard Herrmann, Hildur Guðnadóttir, ect.) instead of "over the film" (i.e, the late-romantic, Wagnerian "Classic Hollywood" sound). Many Film Musicologists, such as Hill and Lehman, argue that the primary vehicle for composing from "inside the film", and it's intoxicatingly emotional elicitation, is incredibly similar to that of the musical vehicles and treatments that ancient and historical sacred music use. 

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These findings are all intertwined and explored by Carson Zuck's recent compositional interests. Centered around their long interrogation and consequential departure of the Judeo-Christian traditions and beliefs, Carson holds the strong conviction that as religion becomes obsolete and redundant in an increasingly scientifically-literate world, that the emotional elicitation of ancient music (as outlined above) must be re-contextualized to fulfill the new spiritual needs of a modern society. This has manifested in the compositional implementation of choral writing, chant-based melodies, and the use of current "holy minimalistic" aesthetics in the attempt to reclaim these tools to illustrate and illuminate the beauty of the natural-world through the lens of science, mathematics, astronomy, and acoustics. The workings and philosophies of Pythagorus, Newton, Galileo, and Kepler are of particular interest to Carson Zuck at this time.

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