Interview With Composer Jake Monaco (And His Interesting Collection Of Instruments!)
1This is a video interview we recently conducted with the Composer Jake Monaco.
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About Jake Monaco:
Jake’s music will be featured in Fox’s highly-anticipated action comedy Keeping Up With the Joneses starring Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher, and Zach Galifianakis. He is also currently scoring three family-favorite animated series, enriching the worlds of Amazon’s The Stinky and Dirty Show, Netflix’s Dinotrux, and Warner Bros. Animation’s Be Cool Scooby Doo.
Jake's has an extensive collection of custom and cool instruments that shows and demonstrates during the interview. These include a cigar box violin, hubcap banjo, wine box bass, and a percussion table made out of different pots and pans.
In addition, his musical fingerprints can be found on some of the biggest film scores of the past decade. As a producer and composer of additional music for Christophe Beck, Monaco has contributed to the animated magic of Frozen, the record-breaking laughs of The Hangover trilogy, the furry hijinks of The Muppets, and the real-life drama of Waiting for Superman.