Day One in the Studio with Star Trek Into Darkness
My friend Mark (the organist in this video) landed a pretty sweet gig on Michael Giacchino’s score for the new blockbuster Star Trek Into Darkness. He shared this video on facebook a few minutes ago and I thought my fellow recording studio and sci fi geeks on tumblr might like a peek.
I like where they’re headed, musically speaking. Maybe I won’t hate the latest from JJ Abrams after all. :)
UPDATE: apparently some privacy settings got changed after I posted this… looks like you have to be a friend on fb to view or something. ARGH. Sorry everybody.
I kept thinking and talking to Chris [Nolan] about what I thought the Batman character was. If there was an arc to be had, it was that he sees his parents getting killed – that’s the defining moment of his life – and he feels guilty for it. The theme is interrupted at essentially two notes: it’s never completed, because he never gets past this point. I spent three weeks removing notes from the main Batman theme until I got it down to just two notes. I am very proud of it. It’s always the beginning of a theme. It promises that he can become a hero or a complete man, but none of that ever happens, because he can’t get past that moment.
Hans Zimmer On Scoring Batman (via thelicenselab)
Two notes.
Just two notes… and as soon as you hear them (or, more precisely, the interval between them in context) you know exactly what’s up.
Amazing.
James Bond film composer John Barry dies
Barry did so much more than Bond, but seriously… all you need is that theme to make a legendary career.
R.I.P.
Source: cbc.ca
