If you're watching the second season of The Last of Us, HBO's epic video game adaptation, you'll have heard the ronroco in its hauntingly atmospheric theme song. This obscure Andean instrument, played ...

When Gustavo Santaolalla appears onscreen in The Last of Us season two, it’s a cameo earned through unexpected devotion. The two-time Oscar winner sits in a corner of a post-apocalyptic town near ...

Silence is a cornerstone of Gustavo Santaolalla’s music. A silence so loaded with meaning because of how and where it arises in his compositions that “sometimes it’s louder than the notes,” as he puts ...