Sep 24
Fans of botched crime capers, black comedy and snow will frequently rate Fargo as one of the best movies ever made. Equally among critics and casual moviegoers, it has been universally rated as the Coen brothers’ greatest achievement and one of the best films to come out of the nineties. I’m biased, but I would …
Oct 20
What is syncing?
Syncing is the often futile act of attempting to align appropriate music and sound effects with film visuals to near-perfect timing, such to accentuate the parallels between what is happening on-screen and what moods or events are communicated by the musical score.
It is the most difficult, tedious and …
Oct 03
What do tigers, snakes, panthers, elephants and orang-utans have in common with trad jazz, bebop, Dixieland, merseybeat and barbershop quartets?
Nothing, apart from being fused together on-screen in this film, Disney’s 1967 masterpiece, The Jungle Book. As well as the orchestral incidental music (composed by good old George Bruns), the jazz and swing that heavily feature …
Sep 19
Set in the illustrious eighteenth century and detailing the exploits of an Irish peasant who, through gambling, fraud, and murder, works his way up into the English aristocracy, Stanley Kurbick’s 3-hour period drama Barry Lyndon is not a light-hearted film by any means. The score, which is solely compiled from pieces of music …
Sep 12
With a plot as crazy as this one, you need a particularly stirring score of music to effectively complement all the action. That is probably why Ron Howard called up Hans Zimmer to score Angels and Demons. Very few other Hollywood composers seem to be versatile enough to deliver music that accompanies characters simultaneously engaged …
Aug 31
This July, sheet music software giant Sibelius launched the latest edition of its highly esteemed (and very expensive) notation software, with previous editions already famed as the software of choice among contemporary classical musicians, film composers and music students alike. The program has always been marketed as a faster, cleaner alternative to writing scores using …
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