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What Star Wars Was Made Of
I was eight when I saw Star Wars. It was years before I thought about who wrote it, and longer before I understood the job — paper, copyists,…
Scoring the Room, Not the Picture
Why immersive needs a slower cut. I once wrote music for a set of 360 films that were recut before release. The decision, as I understand it, was…
Film Music as an Art in Its Own Right
For most of the last century, the quickest way to be taken a little less seriously as a composer was to be good at film music. I have…
Scoring Animation
Animation gives a composer something live-action rarely does: room. When a film has little dialogue and few real-world sounds, the music is not decoration laid over the story…
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