Category: Interview
-
Brynmor Jones: A Welshman in Berlin
The German film industry frequently gives the impression of lying in a sort of permanent but not fatal agony. There is not often much happening. Still, the industry is not dead and after the reunification – with the DEFA Studios in Babelsberg near Berlin – there are hopes for a new start. Hopes, also, for German film composers. One of them is Welsh composer…
-
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue’s score for A LITTLE SEX is his third recorded in the U.S. All were done at Evergreen Studios in Burbank, a rather new and increasingly popular recording studio that has been stressing its film scoring facilities in the motion picture trade papers. (In fact, Charles Fox is co-owner of the complex and had film scoring capabilities in mind when having it built).…
-
Hans Zimmer: Music in the Key of Film
I arrived a bit early on Monday June the 25th for my interview with Hans Zimmer at Media Ventures, his scoring empire in Santa Monica, California. His newly released Decca CD, The Wings Of A Film – The Music Of Hans Zimmer is Zimmer’s first live performance that highlights key moments in his film scoring career. The concert took place at The Flanders International…
-
Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for director Atom Egoyan’s FAMILY VIEWING, a score that earned Danna the first of his nine Canadian film award nominations. With his proclivity toward combining Eastern and Middle Eastern musical forms with Western orchestral and electronic minimalism, Danna created a unique voice early on in his career, one which served him well when…
-
James Venable
Basically, when I was real little I played piano because my grandma made me, and then I switched over to drums in high school because that was cooler, and played in rock bands and that kind of thing. That was in the ‘80s when all the synthesizers and all the technology was really started to flourish, as a drummer at that time I kind…
-
Christopher Slaski
Born in 1974, Christopher Slaski built a truly international career over the last few years by sharing his time between his studios in London and Spain. Christopher graduated in Music from Cambridge University where he studied composition with Robin Holloway, and then he obtained a postgraduate diploma in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music in…
-
Pierre Jansen
I started studying piano and harmony at the Conservatoire de Roubaix, and then went to Brussels where I studied with Henry Sury, a composer who had previously scored many films and documentaries. I immediately thought that writing film scores was very interesting, since it could give me the possibility to hear at once what I had written and…
-
Bill Motzing
Bill Motzing was born in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in 1937. Coming out of a highly musical family, his real interest in music developed at the age of ten when he began taking violin lessons, soon graduating to other instruments. He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he earned a B.A., and received a Masters degree from…
-
Simon Walker
Born in Sydney in 1961, Simon Walker began to develop an interest in music at the age of twelve, when he started tinkering with the piano. A newcomer to the film music scene, he began scoring short films in the late 70’s, graduating to feature in both Australia and America in 1982. Interviewed in 1985, Simon Walker describes his background, his own…
Soundtrack! 