Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts)

Veteran composer Jongnic "JB" Bontemps took a long and winding road to film scoring. Despite showing an early passion for scoring (and studying music at Yale), he didn't immediately enter that world. Instead, he sought a tech career, becoming a software developer and entrepreneur. But music came calling again, and JB found himself studying film scoring and building a career as one of the industry's top composers. After years of building his bona fides working under various A-list composers and scoring video games like Redfall and shows like Godfather of Harlem , he's found himself with his highest-profile work yet: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts . Building off his childhood love for the robots in disguise and the groundwork that composer Steve Jablonsky had laid for him in the Michael Bay films before that, JB worked with Rise of the Beasts director (and longtime collaborator) Steven Caple Jr. to assemble a suitably robust, muscular, and era-appropriate score for the '90s-set throwback blockbusters. Together, JB and I talk about all of this -- his winding path to film composing, the value of building a team and working with valued collaborators, and using music to mark Rise of the Beasts ' distinct globe-trotting adventure and '90s aesthetics. You can find Jongnic Bontemps at his official website . Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is currently playing in theaters, and you can listen to the score on your preferred platform courtesy of Milan Records.

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Jongnic Bontemps (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) is an episode from Right on Cue by Clint Worthington.

This episode is 41:19 long.

This episode was published on Jun 30, 2023.

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