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What makes film music different is that we are always given a situation and we make the song accordingly.
I’m constantly trying to introduce new voices in Tamil film music.
I think it’s great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a character or scene.
With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.
Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.
Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.
When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn’t the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.
The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn’t really have movements in the same way. Instead it’s made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
My ambition, a long time ago, was to be a film music writer. A compromise then was to be the guy who wrote songs for a band and played slide guitar. Then the singer didn’t turn up for an audition, and I was the only one who knew the words. That was it – bingo! Life took a different course.
The colors of ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It’s where so much of the 19th-century romantic music that I call upon as a film composer is rooted.
In Berkley, they have academic studies on all genres of music including rock and jazz, but in India, we don’t have serious academic research and studies on film music; it is such an interesting area of study.
It’s fun to take songs from a completely different context and reframe them. We did two mixtape albums called ‘Other People’s Heartache’ and ‘Other People’s Heartache Pt. 2,’ which were full of those kind of covers and mash-ups, mixed with film music and film quotes.
My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt.
In the West, film music is completely different and independent from their popular music. The two industries are separate and don’t interfere much.
Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.
I like to write film music that stands on its own.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that’s what my ultimate dream is.
There was a time when people were afraid that film music would totally displace classical music.
I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.
The problem is we never had a separate music industry, we always had film music industry. The west has it and that’s why musicians are stars and icons there.
Stravinsky influenced film music in general – those stabbing chords and rhythms from ‘The Rite of Spring.’
Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.
When you’re working on film music, you’re only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.
I don’t listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage – and I may be the only one on the list.
I’d say for a film composer, ‘Star Wars’ is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It’s probably the best film music ever written.
I’m pretty proud of my film music in general.
I got recognition because of film music, but people start recognizing me as an artiste more because of singles.
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
