The first music for HSM!
So as of yesterday I hadn't gone out and interacted with the outside world for about 10 days... I had to go to the bike shop to get a new rim... where I saw this awesome d00d and his amazing bike ^ ^
So I met up with Endika and went to his studio... he played me the temp version of like the first 10 minutes of the movie... we watched it along with a rough cut of the scenes... it was the first time I have heard any of it.... and it was AMAZING! He's not trying to make great "music for film" he's just making AMAZING music PERIOD! I was going to record a video or something with it BUT I realize his music is totally original and awesome and I wouldn't want some talentless hack to steal his melodies and shet before its released because THEY ARE GREAT seriously... I wouldn't go on and on about his music if I didn't think it was the best.... seriously... this score will be greatest music he has written yet and his first like serious classical he has written since college I believe... and I'M TELLING YOU THIS NOW.... as time passes his name and his music will be known by the world... its that GREAT.
Also as I was watching this temp version... there was no dialogue or sound design... only music and picture and it was SO ENGAGING with just that I was thinking about how great it works as a silent film... AND the music will help me cut my 4 hours or whatever down to 2...
I proB explained this before but the way we are working together is totally different than how a composer traditionally scores a film....
Traditionally the film is finished and the edit is locked.... this is given to the composer and he scores to picture... he is FORCED to make his music follow the structure and timing of the film... music has its own natural flow and this way is artificial...
The way we're doing it is.... I gave him the script and all supporting imagery... we discussed and discussed... the philosophy, motivations, and emotions behind the characters, story, scenes etc.... So he knows exactly what I'm trying to do and what I'm after... THEN he writes music freely... allowing the music to be as it should be in its natural form... well actually he took my script and made his own emotional sort of outline thing to guide his score... then he writes music for that... THEN he'll give me the music and I will edit the film to the music... allowing the music to guide the pacing etc...
NOW that requires a huge amount of trust on both parts... I have to trust that he is in sync with how I envisioned the film and he has to trust that I will NOT ask him to change the music after he has written it....
Making a film is a HUGE gamble anyway.... and I'm placing my bet that a dedicated and focused M dot Strange and a dedicated and focused Endika will come up with a BIG WIN! ^^ PLACE YER BETS!
Oh yeh he told in his research he came across a John Williams interview where he was talking about the original Star Wars series scores... Apparently George Lucas asked him to make something that sounded like "The Planets".... so Endika told me something like " Well instead of writing film music inspired by or emulating classical music... why now just write new classical music instead of a film score?"
So I'm really excited to have a REAL GENIUS CLASSICAL COMPOSER writing the music ^ ^
Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.