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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 19/05/2026

Really hated seeing these “most wanted” cards in the Mandalorian movie, which are clearly inspired by those used by the USA in the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Rare to see Star Wars - even under Disney - completely miss the vibe of its political metaphor.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 06/05/2026

Aside from any of the obvious points, the Jobs Ready Graduates Scheme that ushered this into being and continues to be is a great illustration of the Ratchet Effect in politics, where the establishment right ruins something, and the establishment left does nothing to fix it when they gain power

Title: "The Ratchet Effect: How you are being duped by the fake two-party system." An image of a red cog being turned in one direction by republicans who "turn everything to the right", with a blue ratchet "Democrats block movement back to the left"

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 07/04/2026

I understand this is a big jump in context, and numbers like this take a while to turn around, but is it not still sort of staggering that 85% of buyers in March 2026 are looking at petrol prices and going hey yeah hook me right up fellas

Screenshot of a Guardian Australia live blog detailing that 14.6% of new car sales in Australia in March 2026 were electric cars.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 23/09/2025

Rehearsals for our Music of Joe Hisaishi show with the Sydney Symphony. Working at the Opera House never gets old. Very few tix remaining if anyone’s keen - see you there?

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 16/07/2025

My exact reaction in order listening to the new Superman soundtrack

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 12/07/2025

Crikey scenestr.com.au/arts/review-...

screenshot of text: "In an absolutely packed roster of exciting and frightening works, the stand-out moment of the evening came with the world premiere performance of Dan Golding’s 'Untitled Concerto For Orchestra And Honk'. A suite of themes from his mischievous, colourful score for Melbourne-developed smash hit 'Untitled Goose Game', the applause for Golding was the rapturous glee of a home crowd.

Add to that the genuinely gorgeous, shimmering fabric of textures and breaths composed within the work itself, adapted from a suite of Debussy piano etudes, Golding’s knockout performance as honk-horn soloist made the piece a hilarious triumph.

A brilliant assortment of works, 'Indie Symphony II' proved the appetite for video game concerts is only continuing to enter traditional orchestral repertoire. The evening stood as a fantastic example of their capacity to enthral and delight."

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 11/07/2025

I did a *really* silly thing last week with the brilliant Orchestra Victoria, and premiered my newest work, Untitled Concerto for Orchestra and Honk, with myself as the soloist. Thanks to everyone who came along.

A man in a tuxedo with tails and a comically large red bow tie stands in front of a symphony orchestra on stage at Hamer Hall in Narrm, Australia. The man (me) holds an old car horn, which he is about to honk.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 02/07/2025

Anyway it’s actually the first time I have heard an orchestra play something I wrote and I’m pinching myself that it actually all works. Cannot thank Orchestra Victoria enough for making it all happen. There are some tix still available if you’re in Melbourne Thurs or Fri

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 18/06/2025

a longlist and i immediately realised i hadn't included Amyl and the Sniffers so back we go (selected ten absolutely not indicative of actual ten)

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 13/06/2025

I’m in Perth rn hosting some Art of the Score concerts of John Williams music with the West Australia Symphony Orchestra. This morning we did some edu shows for 22 schools and a kid posted this

A tiktok post reading: “fuckass school espects me to go back and do math after seeing this bro let me vibe”

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 11/06/2025

Less-lethal bullets can cause fatal injuries

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 31/05/2025

In this year’s Classic 100, vote for your favourite piano pieces. You have until just the end of the weekend to do so. You can actually vote for my music for Untitled Goose Game, which I was not fat-headed enough to do but would be chuffed if you might consider it yourself classic100.abc.net.au

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 17/05/2025

One of the biggest surprises for me in the final arc of Andor was this. Between Bissell’s writing, Kieron Gillen’s comics, and of course Charlie Brooker, the pantheon of former videogame critics is not shabby.

An end credit that reads “Written by Tom Bissell”

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 03/05/2025

From The Tally Room blog www.tallyroom.com.au/60426

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 22/04/2025

Star Wars has become one of the most pervasive pop culture languages we have for people to talk about politics. It’s something Andor leans into particularly but it is also one of the fundamental appeals of the franchise: taking earthly politics and mythologising them.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 03/03/2025

Deserved win for Best Original Score for The Brutalist. A remarkable moment in the score is the intermission, which is a fifteen-minute recording of pianist John Tilbury sitting at the piano and figuring out the theme for the character of Erzsébet - artistic creation, documented in music.

“The music in the intermission is very special. It’s by the pianist, John Tilbury, who I worked with for the more melancholy moments that follow László Tóth (Adrien Brody). The intermission is a beautiful moment where you can hear the pianist writing notes on his stave, and you can hear his piano store creaking. You can see Erzsébet’s theme emerging. He’s trying to work out her theme in the film because László’s theme develops into Erzsébet’s. I would say to the audience, sit there. Sit in your seat. Don’t have a cigarette. Don’t go to the toilet. Just listen.”

From https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/the-brutalist-film-intermission/isaach-de-bankole/

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 07/02/2025

Super fun to be at the ICC in Sydney tonight hosting our Art of the Score concert of the music of Hans Zimmer with the SSO. There’s a surprise in tonight’s programme that is an Australian premiere, too.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 23/01/2025

This list is… interesting to say the least. The Nine Inch Nails boys have done well at the Oscars but to not have Challengers here is silly. Going by the often successful principle that the winner will be the one most likely to annoy film score fans there’s a pretty clear favourite here I think.

Oscars list of Best Original Score nominees: The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Perez, Wicked, and The Wild Robot

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 15/01/2025

Cracking work on between 15 min rotations of the main Van Gogh show if I do say so myself

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 12/12/2024

Still not sure how this was Gladiator 2 and not Blackadder 5

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 16/11/2024

Inspired by @danhf.bsky.social and @jmittell.bsky.social, here’s my third year Screen Sounds and Music unit at Swinburne. Not pictured because I ran out of screenshot room: The Harder They Come (1972) and Black Orpheus (1959). boxd.it/AoFhq

A letterboxd carousel with: Man with a movie camera, the artist, easy rider, the graduate, star wars, steamboat willie, king kong, gravity, inception, black panther, the searchers, bride of frankenstein, suspicion, meshes of the afternoon, the conversation, night watch, spider-verse, scott pilgrim, godzilla, once upon a time in the west

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 14/11/2024

Really chuffed with this surprise review of my 2019 book, STAR WARS AFTER LUCAS (published with @uminnpress.bsky.social) in the Journal of Film and Video by Joseph Ozias. Many thanks to the author for taking the time to read and consider my work. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/arti...

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 09/11/2024

The Visitor is surely one of the most beautiful and moving episodes of Star Trek, if not tv. Farewell Tony Todd.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 22/10/2024

What stage of capitalism is this

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 23/09/2024

Jameson reminding us that, if nothing else, always put your absolute banger sentences first.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 05/04/2024

People talk about having a worrying realisation when Elon Musk finally started talking about things they themselves actually knew something about. I know more than a little about videogames and movies, and let’s just say if this guy is the genius of AI, we may be in some trouble here.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 17/12/2023

Three sellout shows of 2500 at Hamer Hall, three standing ovations, feeling pretty lucky to get to talk about film music for a living

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 14/12/2023

Rehearsal with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for our Art of the Score concerts over the next three nights, showcasing and unpicking the music of Hans Zimmer. Super lucky to be able to do this new format of film music concert with a world class orchestra.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 06/10/2023

Wildly cool to see an Australian game (Cult of the Lamb) celebrated in public like this. Not embarrassed, not token, just games stuff in public.

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 30/09/2023

At easily the most significant event of #MIGW23: After Climate’s 2023 Snapshot launch, where Ben tallies up the carbon footprint of the games industry, who is accountable, and who isn’t. Crucial crucial stuff

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 16/08/2023

Paperback edition of my book is out! Super cool little volume if I may say so myself

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