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Lara Meyerratken is an Australian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Meyerratken is most commonly associated with her longtime collaborator Ben Lee. Meyerratken is a notable session musician and songwriter.
Lara Meyerratken, whose nome de plume is ‘el May’, is an Australian composer, session musician, and instrumentalist. She reached international renown thanks to her compositions and collaboration in various music projects. Her achievements took her to share scenarios and recording sessions with many musicians.
- Becoming A Composer
- Finding A Life-Changing Job
- Realizing It Takes A Mess to Get to Meticulous
- Developing The Glow Sound
- Training Herself to Be Organized
- A Lasting Memory
- Working on Your Connections, Not Working Them
When Lara got her start as a musician, she was broke and living in New York City making records on a broken laptop and headphones — playing all the instruments and producing albums herself. “I still apply this notion to everyday life,” she reflected. “I ask: ‘What’s available to me right now?’ When it came time to make my first release, I decided t...
Lara eventually hit a wall with commercials. “Working on film and TV was very different. It’s really subtle. It’s not like commercials, where there’s often a formula. With TV and film, sometimes it’s literally the difference between, should we just have no music here? Commercials don’t typically ask questions with that level of nuance when selectin...
Lara knew that GLOW would point her career in a new direction, and that came with some trepidation. “Craig is very experienced and confident and had so much confidence in me that my imposter syndrome was raging,” she shared. “But I loved the time with GLOW; it was a perfect thing for me to do, especially as my first TV show. Craig and Bo Boddie, wh...
To know what was needed for each episode, Lara and her fellow composers had spotting sessions where they sat with the writers, editors, music supervisors, sound people, and producers and went through every scene that needed music. The bit of music needed for the scene — which is often just a short part of a scene — is also known as a cue. For examp...
Lara uses DISCOfor her music storage and sharing. If someone needed something fast, she’d put together a DISCO playlist of alternative options and send it for the producers to have a quick listen. She explained, “They’re busy. They don’t want to download something from Dropbox. DISCO is like streaming — the platform looks familiar. It’s user-friend...
Lara and her team had already started working on Season Four of GLOWwhen they received an email two weeks before the news went public that the show had been canceled. “We were shocked,” she shared. “I think Netflix just pulled funding due to the pandemic. I’m not really sure.” Lara described what it was like working with the GLOW actors and team an...
For Lara, finding her place in the industry came down to her friendships. “It sounds so simple, but for me, being successful in this field means having a good, balanced life, taking care of yourself, taking care of people around you — working on your connections, not workingthem,” she said. “Focus on having quality relationships with people. I feel...
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Listen to music by Lara Meyerratken on Apple Music. Find top songs and albums by Lara Meyerratken, including The Achin' Kind.
I spoke to Lara Meyerratken, who makes music as El May, about the album she’s currently recording, playing and touring with bands like Ben Lee, Nada Surf & Crooked Fingers, and composing music for commercials.
Lara Meyerratken is an Australian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Meyerratken is most commonly associated with her longtime collaborator Ben Lee.
