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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…
Warn the Audience and They Laugh
Music before the jump made the class laugh. On the nose was fine. Late was the interesting one — which is why these are conventions, not laws.
The Organ and the Advert
Scoring Flatland, I gave the political order a pipe organ and A Square a 1950s American-dream register. Both are the same hierarchy talking. Class in a score isn't…
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