In Conversation with Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (Stranger Things)

Composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein are hosted by film journalist and Stranger Things fan Dan Jolin for an intimate night of music and conversation at the brand new Spiritland at the Barbican.

Texas-raised composer duo Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein went from playing in the preeminent live synth act S U R V I V E to writing the timeless themes of Stranger Things, earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme and two Grammy nominations.

Their film work includes Rashid Johnson’s Native Son (A24/HBO Films), Joaquín del Paso’s Hole in the Fence and Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche, which premiered at Cannes. Through Short Hour, they now self-release new and previously unreleased music, while Dixon has founded Hourglass Recordings to put out vinyl editions and more.

As longtime acolytes of Italian library music, they recently recorded at the Museo del Synth Marchigiano in Macerata, using rare Elka and CRB synthesizers and materials salvaged from the Farfisa organ factory.