Mark Korven

Mark Korven is a Canadian musician and composer mostly known for the creation of music scores for various film and television productions. Korven won a 1999 Gemini Award for his Original Music Score for A Scattering of Seeds: The Creation of Canada II.

During his early life in Winnipeg, Mark Korven took part in several amateur rock bands, mostly playing the guitar in local bars. In 1977, he started taking formal music education in the Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton. In 1984, he released his first album, titled "Passengers". After graduating in the early 1980s, he went back to music, composing his first songs. In 1984, he recorded hist first album with a label named "Rave Records". In 1987 he moved to Toronto, where he recorded his album titled "Ordinary Man" with Duke Street Records, and that same year he had his first chance at composing the score for a film in Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. In 1992 he released one more album, by the name "This Must Be The Place", although by that time his main activity had become composing scores for film and TV works.

Musician David Byrne Pens Stinging Gun-Control Essay Aimed At US

Edit WorldNews.com 24 Jun 2016

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne join a growing list of public figures and artists confronting the growing gun control crisis in the US this week by penning an impassioned plea in an essay in support of firearms restrictions, Billboard reported.Less than two weeks after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Byrne wrote, “We ware [sic] are ware here,” in an essay entitled “Guns Are About Freedom....

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Pompeii, with Vesuvius towering above. The ruins of Pompeii are situated at coordinates 40°45′00″N 14°29′10″E / 40.75°N 14.48611°E / 40.75; 14.48611, near the modern suburban town of Pompei.

Archaeologists Find Skeletons, Gold Coins In Buried Pompeii Shop

Edit WorldNews.com 24 Jun 2016

In the workshop was an oven that archaeologists think might have been used to make bronze objects.The excavation of that and a second ancient shop started in May near a necropolis in the Herculaneum port area. Archaeologists are puzzling over what kind of business the second shop did ... tomb of an adult, complete with funerary vases ... Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were ancient Roman towns....

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Brexit: David Cameron resigns as prime minister

Edit The Irish Times 24 Jun 2016

David Cameron has resigned as British prime minister following the failure of his Remain side to win the referendum on staying in the EU. Mr Cameron called the vote on Brexit in 2013 under pressure from the anti-EU wing of his Conservative Party and Ukip, hoping to end decades of debate over the UK’s ties with Europe ... With a turnout of 72.2 per cent, 51.9 per cent voted to leave; 48.1 per cent voted to remain ... Irish government reaction....

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A Falun Gong member demonstrates in front of the EU Council building in Brussels, Thursday June 15, 2006. Falun Gong members demonstrated outside a meeting of EU leaders on Thursday to ask for help against what they claim is illegal human organ harvesting of Falun Gong members by China.

Investigators: China Still Harvesting Human Organs on Huge Scale

Edit Voa News 24 Jun 2016

In 2006, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian Asia-Pacific Secretary of State David Kilgour began an investigation into accusations of the Chinese government's role in harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners. Their published findings, "Bloody Harvest. Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China," attracted international attention ... soil in 2004 ... ....

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Donald Trump held his first town hall meeting Wednesday night before a rowdy Derry, New Hampshire crowd that cheered, chimed in and booed when he mentioned his presidential rivals

Trump applauds decisions by British people to bolt EU

Edit Austin American Statesman 24 Jun 2016

Donald Trump is saluting the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, saying "they took back their country, it's a great thing." ... ....

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The Witch review - original sin and folkloric terror

Edit The Guardian 13 Mar 2016

4 / 5 stars. Robert Eggers’s Sundance-garlanded period horror is a chilling study of fear and the devils that live within us all. @KermodeMovie ... The discordant strains of Mark Korven’s score, a superbly evocative symphony of nyckelharpa strings and eerie scrapes, give way to an image of prostrate prayer, as father William (Ralph Ineson) leads his brood in face-down worship on the outskirts of an imposing wood ... Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest....

The Witch review: masterful old-school dread stalks the New World

Edit The Irish Times 10 Mar 2016

Robert Eggers’s singular debut can, without two much sanding of edges, be comfortably slotted into that fecund genre we know as folk horror ... The Witch may be set in North America, but it is 1630 and the accents are still those of northern Britain ... Kung Fu Panda 3 ... Her hands part and he’s smiling ... Mark Korven, a master out of Winnipeg, scores with screeches and moans that help the action build towards a final, borderline-absurd catharsis....

‘The Witch’ conjures 17th century America

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 26 Feb 2016

Call it artisanal horror, driven in part by the same impulses that have modern consumers hungering for old-fashioned food preparations based on a respect for handmade, small-batch craftsmanship ... Working with production designer Craig Lathrop, costume designer Linda Muir, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, editor Louise Ford and composer Mark Korven, Eggers has created a boldly convincing version of New England farm life circa 1630 ... ....

'The Witch' is an unforgettable historical horror masterpiece

Edit The Examiner 26 Feb 2016

Robert Eggers’ The Witch is the type of horror film that I have been anxiously awaiting for quite some time. It is, simply put, one of the best films of the year - maybe even the decade. Perhaps the century. That is not hyperbole, it is merely the truth ... With all of their belongings in tow, they ride a covered wagon into the wilderness where they plan to start anew ... Also worthy of mention is the films score by composer, Mark Korven ... ....

In 'The Witch,' a haunting prequel to Salem

Edit The Malta Independent 26 Feb 2016

Set under gray Puritan skies in a deathly autumn, "The Witch" is a slow-burning 1600s horror thriller so bone-dry it would only take a match for the whole movie to go up in flames. "A New England folktale" is how the opening titles describe writer-director Robert Eggers' impressively rigorous feature debut ... Do not expect broomsticks ... The picture is drained of color and the score (by Mark Korven) is eerie and discordant ... a teenager ... ....

'The Witch' a haunting prequel to Salem

Edit Longview News Journal 25 Feb 2016

Director cloaks ‘The Witch’ in period details to immerse cast and viewers

Edit The Oklahoman 23 Feb 2016

‘The Witch’ Review: A beautiful descent into madness

Edit Celebrity Café 21 Feb 2016

The score by Mark Korven plays a vital part in building the tension as well, and it may go down as one of the greatest horror scores of all time, assuming Korven himself actually composed it and didn’t simply recover a CD from the depths of hell ... the two hour mark but it says a lot about The Witch that the main issue is we’re left wanting more....

'The Witch': Eerie horror film follows pious New Englanders into the woods

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 19 Feb 2016

The Witch is a stressful movie to watch, and that's meant as the highest praise. It's eerie in every sense, from its isolated 17th-century New England setting to its washed-out colors to the face of its star, Anya Taylor-Joy ... Or is that force created by the sins of the family itself? ... Jarin Blaschke's cinematography, the score by Mark Korven, Eggers' direction and script (culled from New England lore), and the small, phenomenal cast ... ....

'The Witch' sets the bar very high for 2016 horror

Edit The Examiner 19 Feb 2016

Good luck to those horror films that open after “The Witch” which starts its run in theaters today, Friday, February 19, 2016. Whatever comes after it this year will have a lot to live up to following one of the best horror movies to come down the pike in years ... He creates such a complete world, that you're totally immersed in it ... Father is passive/aggressive ... Special kudos must be given to Mark Korven as well for his ultra-eerie score ... ....

Director cloaks 'The Witch' in period details to immerse cast and viewers

Edit The Los Angeles Times 19 Feb 2016

"The Witch" is a film that attempts not to simply mimic a world of primitive technology, superstition and beliefs, but rather to conjure it completely ... Working with production designer Craig Lathrop, costume designer Linda Muir, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, editor Louise Ford and composer Mark Korven, Eggers has created a boldly convincing version of New England farm life circa 1630 ... 'The Witch' A24 ... mark.olsen@latimes.com....

'The Witch' Conjures Up A Chilly, Must-See Tale Of Puritan Horrors

Edit Huffington Post 19 Feb 2016

Around this time last year, anyone monitoring the chatter pouring out of Sundance knew "The Witch" was the festival's primo sleeper. Its esteem happened organically, without any star power or pre-festival buzz ... "A star is born," the industry seemed to say of Eggers and his collective cast ... Even the film's score, by Mark Korven, is grounded in history, using period-appropriate instruments to repurpose a cappella Puritan psalms ... ... ....

Movie review: ‘The Witch’ is a scary thrill

Edit The Oklahoman 18 Feb 2016

You might expect that a film titled “The Witch” is giving away the game from the start. How wrong you might be ... In his feature debut he plunges us into an eerie world both nightmarish and credible ... Wait no longer, Eggers has arrived ... “It will not consume us.” ... The dissonant musical soundtrack by composer Mark Korven and its gloomy natural lighting make each sequence electrify the imagination while maintaining an atmosphere of mystery ... ———....

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