Paul Haslinger

Paul Haslinger (born 11 December 1962) is an Austrian musician and composer. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Paul Haslinger
Background information
Born	(1962-12-11) 11 December 1962 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria
Occupation(s)	Composer, music producer
Instruments	Keyboards, guitar
Associated acts	Tangerine Dream
Website	haslinger.com

Life and career

Early life

Haslinger was born and raised in Linz, Austria. He attended high school at Kollegium Aloisianum, a Jesuit school near Linz. After graduating, he decided to pursue music professionally and studied at both the Vienna’s Academy of Music and the University of Vienna. During this time he developed a career as a session player in Vienna and performed with local bands and artists.

Tangerine Dream (1985–1990)

In 1985, Haslinger joined the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. During his 5 years with the group, he recorded a total of 15 albums, participated in 4 international tours, and collaborated on a number of soundtracks including Miracle Mile, Near Dark, Shy People and Miramar’s Canyon Dreams directed by Jan Nickman. The soundtrack for Canyon Dreams earned Haslinger his first Grammy nomination in 1991.

Solo work in music

In 1991, Haslinger left Tangerine Dream and relocated to Los Angeles. At the time, he was signed to Private Music. While under contract, he worked on a joint project with Peter Baumann, called Blue Room (unreleased). In 1994 Haslinger released his first solo record, Future Primitive (Wildcat), followed by World Without Rules (1996, RGB) and Score (1999, RGB).

Collaborations

Through the 1990s, Haslinger collaborated on a number of projects with a variety of artists, among them: French Electronic band Lightwave, dark-ambient icon Brian Williams, aka Lustmord, singers Anna Homler & Nona Hendryx, as well as Jon Hassell. In 1998, Haslinger was asked to join the team around film composer Graeme Revell. He worked as a music programmer and arranger on films such as Chinese Box (1999), The Negotiator (1998), The Siege (1998), Pitch Black (2000), Blow (2001), and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). Haslinger has always favored a collaborative approach to film scoring, and has worked with many studio musicians and performers, such as Steve Tavaglione, George Doering, Greg Ellis, Diego Stocco, Charlie Campagna. In recent years he also started returning to some of his earlier work in experimental music, collaborating with Christian Fennesz and other artists related to British Avantgarde label Touch.

Music for film

Haslinger’s first solo feature film credit came with Crazy/Beautiful, his second collaboration with director John Stockwell. They continued to work together on projects including Blue Crush, Into the Blue, Turistas, and In The Blood. Haslinger has provided scores to several indie and studio features including The Girl Next Door, Crank, Turistas, Shoot 'Em Up, Death Race, Takers, The Three Musketeers, and Mysteries of the Unseen World, among others.

In 2003, Haslinger scored his first film to open at number 1 at the U.S. box office, Underworld, directed by Len Wiseman. He returned to the popular franchise, scoring both Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and Underworld: Awakening. Haslinger’s most popular track "Eternity and a Day" has been used repeatedly throughout the franchise and the score to Underworld: Awakening received a 2012 BMI Film Music Award. Haslinger composed the music for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and in theaters in 2017. A Resident Evil Soundtrack will be released in conjunction with the film.

Music for television

Haslinger's first solo composer credit came in 2000 with the HBO Films television movie, Cheaters, which began his relationship with director John Stockwell. Taking a break from film scoring, he returned to television from 2005-2006 to score Showtime's Golden Globe-nominated series Sleeper Cell which resulted in Haslinger's first Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special. In 2014, Haslinger was hired to score the AMC series Halt and Catch Fire. The show is set in the 1980s and has received much critical acclaim for its use of period-specific music. A Halt and Catch Fire soundtrack was released by Lakeshore Records in 2016. Expanding his work with AMC, in 2015 Haslinger was asked to write the music for AMC's spin-off series to The Walking Dead, entitled Fear the Walking Dead.

Music for video games

In 2005, Haslinger was approached by Ubisoft to score the video game Far Cry Instincts. Since then, he has scored a string of game releases, including Rainbow Six: Vegas, Wolverine, Need for Speed. Most recently he collaborated with Ben Frost on the score for the latest installment in the Rainbow Six series, entitled Siege.

Works

Film

Year	Title	Director	Studio(s)	Notes
2020	Monster Hunter	Paul W. S. Anderson	Screen Gems, Capcom Company
2018	The Perfection	Richard Shepard	Miramax, Netflix
	Wildling	Fritz Böhm	IFC Films, IM Global
2016	Resident Evil: The Final Chapter	Paul W. S. Anderson	Screen Gems, Capcom Company
2014	No Good Deed	Sam Miller	Screen Gems	[1]
	In the Blood	John Stockwell	Anchor Bay Films	Soundtrack available from MovieScore Media[2]
2013	Mysteries of the Unseen World	Louis Schwartzberg	National Geographic Cinema Day's End Pictures	Released on IMAX[3]
2012	Underworld: Awakening	Måns Mårlind Bjorn Stein	Screen Gems	Fourth in the Underworld film series. Soundtrack available from Lakeshore Records. Received BMI Film Music Award for score.[4]
2011	The Three Musketeers	Paul W. S. Anderson	Constantin Film Produktion, Summit Entertainment	Soundtrack available from Milan Records[5]
	Death Race 2	Roel Reiné	Moonlighting Films Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2010	Takers	John Luessenhop	Screen Gems	Soundtrack available from Screen Gems
2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Patrick Tatopoulos	Sketch Films, Screen Gems	Soundtrack available from Screen Gems
	After.Life	Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo	Lleju Productions, Anchor Bay Films	With Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci
2008	While She Was Out	Susan Montford	Insight Film Studios, Anchor Bay Films	Soundtrack available from Lakeshore Records
	Make It Happen	Darren Grant	The Mayhem Project, The Weinstein Company
	Death Race	Paul W. S. Anderson	Universal Pictures	Soundtrack available from Intrada
	Prom Night	Nelson McCormick	Alliance Films, Screen Gems
	The Fifth Commandment	Jesse V. Johnson	Freestyle Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
2007	Shoot 'Em Up	Michael Davis	New Line Cinema	Soundtrack available from Varèse Sarabande, Universal Music Group
	Gardener of Eden	Kevin Connolly	The 7th Floor, Appian Way, Virtual Studios, Initial Entertainment Group, Gardener of Eden Productions
	Vacancy	Nimród Antal	Screen Gems	Soundtrack available from Commotion
2006	Turistas	John Stockwell	Fox Atomic	Soundtrack from Fox Music
	Crank	Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor	Lakeshore Entertainment, Lions Gate Films	Soundtrack available on Lakeshore Records
2005	Into the Blue	John Stockwell	Columbia Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, MGM
2004	The Girl Next Door	Luke Greenfield	New Regency Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox	Soundtrack available on Lakeshore Records
	Bring It On Again	Damon Santostefano	Universal Pictures
2003	Underworld	Len Wiseman	Lakeshore Entertainment, Screen Gems	Soundtrack available on Lakeshore Records
2002	Blue Crush	John Stockwell	Universal Pictures	Soundtrack available from Virgin Records
2001	Crazy/Beautiful	John Stockwell	Buena Vista Pictures	Soundtrack available from Hollywood Records
	Picture Claire	Bruce McDonald	Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Production, Seredipity Point Films	Soundtrack available from EMI Music Canada
1999	Infinity's Child	Jan Nickman		Animated Short Film[6]
	The Story of Computer Graphics	Frank Foster	Association for Computing Machinery
1997	Planetary Traveler	Jan Nickman		Animated Short Film, Soundtrack available from Third Planet Entertainment

Television

Year	Title	Producer(s)	Network	Notes
2020	Paradise Lost	Anonymous Content	Spectrum Originals
2014–2017	Halt and Catch Fire	Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers, Jonathan Lisco, Mark Johnson, Melissa Bernstein	AMC	Soundtrack volume one released on Lakeshore Records in 2016 Soundtrack volume two released on Lakeshore Records in 2019
2015–2017	Fear the Walking Dead	Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman	AMC
2012	Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden	Voltage Pictures, The Weinstein Company, National Geographic Channel	NatGeo	Directed by John Stockwell Television Movie
2005–2006	Sleeper Cell	Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris	Showtime	Soundtrack available from Rhythmbank Entertainment
2000	Cheaters	Kevin Reidy, Gloria Jean Sykes	HBO	Directed by John Stockwell Television Movie
1994	Pointman	Robert Ellis Miller	Prime Time Entertainment	Television Movie

Video games

Year	Title	Director	Production Company
2015	Rainbow Six Siege		Ubisoft
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Margaret Tang	Amaze Entertainment, Activision Blizzard
2008	Need For Speed: Undercover	Joseph A. Hodges	Electronic Arts Blackbox
	Rainbow Six: Vegas 2	David Jankowski, David Moodie	Ubisoft
2006	Rainbow Six: Vegas	David Moodie	Ubisoft
	Far Cry Instincts: Evolution		Ubisoft
2005	Far Cry Instincts		Ubisoft

Solo projects

Year	Title	Label
Solo
2020	Exit Ghost	Artificial Instinct
1999	Score	RGB/Hearts of Space Records
1996	World Without Rules	RGB
1994	Future Primitive	Wildcat Recording Corporation
As Coma Virus
1997	Hidden	Side Effects

With Tangerine Dream

• Catch Me If You Can (1989, OST released 1994)
• Deadly Care (1987, OST released 1992)
• L'Affaire Wallraff (The Man Inside) (1989, OST released 1991)
• Dead Solid Perfect (1989, OST released 1991)
• Canyon Dreams (1987 OST, released 1991)
• Melrose (1990)
• East (1990 concert, released 2004)
• Miracle Mile (1989)
• Lily on the Beach (1989)
• Rainbow Drive (1989, unreleased OST)
• Destination Berlin (1989)
• Rockface (1988 concert, released 2003)[7]
• Optical Race (1988)
• Livemiles (1988)
• Near Dark (1987, OST released 1988)
• Shy People (1987, OST released 1988)
• Dead Solid Perfect (1988)
• Three O'Clock High (OST 1987)
• Tyger (1987)
• Zoning (1987)
• Red Nights (1987, unreleased OST)
• Tonight's the Night (1987, unreleased OST)
• Vault IV (1986 concerts, released 2005)
• Underwater Sunlight (1986)

Programmer for Graeme Revell

• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (OST, 2001)
• Blow (2000)
• Red Planet (OST, 2000)
• Titan A.E. (2000)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• The Siege (OST, 1998)
• The Negotiator (1998)
• Phoenix (OST, 1998)
• The Chinese Box (OST, 1997)

With Lightwave

• Bleue Comme Une Orange (2004)
• Caryotype (2002)
• A Collection (Promo CD - 1999)
• Mundus Subterraneus (1995)
• Made to Measure (Cassette tape - 1994)
• Tycho Brahé (1993)
• Structure Trilogy (Cassette tape - 1991)

Awards

• BMI Television Music Award -"Fear The Walking Dead" (2016)
• BMI Film Music Award - Underworld: Awakening (2012)
• BMI Film Music Award - Takers (2011)
• Emmy Nomination - Sleeper Cell (2006)
• Grammy Nomination (w/ Tangerine Dream) - Canyon Dreams (1991)

References

1. "For The 3rd Time, Screen Gems Pushes Back Release Date for No Good Deed - By 5 months". Indiewire. Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
2. "In The Blood (Paul Haslinger)". MovieScore Media.
3. "Mysteries of the Unseen World". National Geographic.
4. "2012 BMI Film/TV Award Winners". BMI.
5. "The Three Musketeers". Milan Records. Archived from the original on January 15, 2012.
6. "About". Infinity's Child.
7. https://www.discogs.com/Tangerine-Dream-Rockface/release/1229157

External links

• Official website
• Paul Haslinger on IMDb