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Custom-Made Instruments Score The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror and Prehistoric Planet

Composers Anže Rozman, Kara Talve, and musician Russell Emanuel utilize custom-made instruments for unique scores. Emanuel co-founded Bleeding Fingers Music with Hans Zimmer and Steven Kofsky, contributing to shows like The Simpsons: Treeho

Variety Music·May 29, 2026·via Variety Music

Custom-Made Instruments Score The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror and Prehistoric Planet

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May 29, 2026 10:55am PT

How Custom-Made Instruments Were the Key to ‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror’ and ‘Prehistoric Planet’ Scores

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Custom-made instruments are the key to scoring for composers Anže Rozman, Kara Talve and musician Russell Emanuel.

Emanuel is a co-founder of the composer collective Bleeding Fingers Music along with Hans Zimmer and Steven Kofsky. Among the shows they’ve worked on that could grab voters’ attention are Apple TV’s “ Prehistoric Planet. ”

In the show’s prior season, they created custom instruments made from fossils, bones and dinosaur skull replicas and married them to a standard orchestra to create an otherworldly soundscape.