Sonixsphere and iSpy Music Find a Sonic Soul for Flying Wild Alaska

Composer Greg Allan, who launched his latest company, Sonixphere, this summer, and Doug Bossi, owner and lead composer at iSpy Music, are collaborating again for Discovery’s reality series, Flying Wild Alaska, now in its second season. From the show’s baritone guitar theme to the underscore throughout each episode, the music this season features a number of organic elements that include Alaskan drums, vocals, pan flutes and the sounds of the planes themselves. “Because the show is about planes and props, we incorporate the simulated sound of a prop plane into some of the cues,” says Bossi. “This show contains a wide variety of musical genres from electronic to orchestral to tribal to native.”

The show’s subjects, the Tweto family, transport passengers to remote parts of Alaska on their airline, Era Alaska.

Show producer D.J. Nurre asked the composers to score more derivative cues that thread the show’s theme across each episode. Allan, who has a long history in sonic branding, has created themes for Sears/Kenmore, Columbia Sportswear and the Maya Clinic. (Watch a recent spot he scored for Columbia featuring Iceman Wim Hof here.) Bossi, who has composed for a number of reality shows and dramas, including Friday Night Lights, has also collaborated with Allan and the Sonixsphere team for Secret Millionaire, The Great Food Race and The Real Deal.  

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