Selected features, interviews, and conversations on composing for games, film, and television.

Interviews & Features

• Naroth Audio A Composer’s Journey & Insights A wide-ranging conversation on creative process, collaboration, and work across Fortnite, Civilization VI, and Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
  Sept 2023 →
• Magnetic Mag The Joys of Composing a Mobile Soundtrack On scoring HEROish for Apple Arcade — live orchestra, mobile constraints, and what makes a mobile score memorable.
  Sept 2022 →
• Game Rant Scoring Film and Games: Heroish, Fortnite, and the Differences Between On bridging orchestral and electronic worlds and why “good music is good music” regardless of medium.
  Aug 2022 →
• Push Square Talking Game Music With Composer Phill Boucher Medium comparisons, editing cues on the fly, and the story behind the guitarviol — the “instrument of 1,000 voices.”
  Apr 2021 →
• Screen Rant Phill Boucher: Video Game Composer On Fortnite’s musical evolution, Civilization VI, XCOM: Chimera Squad, and the imaginative demands of scoring games before a world is fully built.
  Apr 2021 →
• Inverse Fortnite’s Composer on Season 6, Remote Orchestras, and a Secret Weapon Conducting 81 musicians in Vienna during the pandemic, crafting the sound of The Foundation, and why the hardest cue is always “the next one.”
  Mar 2021 →
• Musique Fantastique Marvel’s Midnight Suns: Scoring the Video Game An in-depth conversation alongside co-composer Tim Wynn on designing Midnight Suns’ score — interactive combat layers, environmental music systems, and four years in the making.
  Dec 2022 →
• Shacknews Heroish’s Composer Talks Making Music for Films vs Games A video interview on the journey from TV and film to games, and the practical differences between scoring loops and stingers versus a locked linear scene.
  Oct 2022 →

Podcasts & Audio Interviews

• Level with Emily Reese Episode 192: Phill Boucher (HEROish, Fortnite) Discussing the HEROish score — Celtic instruments, full orchestra, and metal guitar — and what makes it “Celtic metal plus.”
  Sept 2022 →
• Hooked On Score Fortnite / XCOM Chimera Squad — Interview with Composer Phill Boucher Audio interview on Fortnite, XCOM: Chimera Squad, and Civilization VI.
  May 2021 →

Video Interviews

• Orchestral Tools LA Creatives: Garry Schyman & Phill Boucher on Scoring for Video Games A conversation with composer Garry Schyman on the craft of game scoring — working in LA, building a career across mediums, and what makes video game composition distinct.
  Feb 2022 →
• Vienna Symphonic Library Vienna Calling: Phill Boucher A composer talk recorded at Synchron Stage Vienna — on Phill’s approach to hybrid scoring, working with live orchestras, and the relationship between samples and real players.
  Jan 2022 →