Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 I'll always keep an eye out, I suppose...unlikely, but not impossible.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMefford 1,509 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 1:51 PM, El Jefe said: Bummer, Williams was here twice since 2010, Ft Worth and Houston. Giacchino came to Dallas in 2012. Myself and a few members here attended the Williams rehearsal in Ft Worth and met him and got stuff signed. I went to the Giacchino concert and was able to meet him after the concert and get autographs and a picture taken. He also had Star Trek and Into Darkness music to picture concerts here as well, San Antonio and Houston I believe. I wasn’t able to attend those. I went to the Houston Concerts! It was a great experience, also got to meet him and got a giant signed poster. They had a Q&A session as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Giacchino is writing a new commemorative piece for NASA: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/michael-giacchino-nasa-tribute-1202827429/ Jay and Disco Stu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 He talks about it here towards the end. Quite a fun interview during the premiere of Jurassic World in Concert, where they poke fun at their own work quite honestly with a real Paleontologist. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156145840005865&id=73250630864&_rdr Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Interesting - Giacchino calls this piece “a precursor to a longer piece I’m writing for next year,” the 50th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing by Apollo 11, “what that meant to the world, and where we go from here.” It too is a joint commission by NASA and the National Symphony Orchestra. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Max 141 Posted June 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2018 I attended the Jurassic World In Concert event on May 30 and the NASA event on June 1 in Washington, D.C. Both were great! (I got to meet Giacchino at both. He's a great guy!) I tried to get a video recording of Giacchino's new "Voyage" piece, but an usher was standing close to me, so I was only able to get an audio recording, if anyone would like to give it a listen. I thought it was a beautiful piece, and I hope an official recording gets released someday! My recording from the back of the Kennedy Center doesn't do it justice. (The orchestra started playing as John Cho finished reading a poem, so the audience claps at the start of the piece.) Voyage by Michael Giacchino (June 1, 2018) It's been almost a year since I last posted, even though I've been a daily reader. Looking back at Giacchino's 2017 scores (I thought they were all great), I would rank them: 1. War for the Planet of the Apes 2. Spider-Man: Homecoming 3. Coco 4. The Book of Henry I'm incredibly excited for The Incredibles 2 and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom! Arpy, Disco Stu, JWMike and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 12 minutes ago, Max said: I've been a daily reader. We're all so sorry. 12 minutes ago, Max said: I tried to get a video recording of Giacchino's new "Voyage" piece, but an usher was standing close to me, so I was only able to get an audio recording, if anyone would like to give it a listen. I thought it was a beautiful piece, and I hope an official recording gets released someday! My recording from the back of the Kennedy Center doesn't do it justice. (The orchestra started playing as John Cho finished reading a poem, so the audience claps at the start of the piece.) Voyage by Michael Giacchino (June 1, 2018) Just listened to your recording (thanks for that!) and I think it sounds pretty good on first listen! Didn't bowl me over anything but it strikes the right tone and the theme is nice. I like the overall structure of the piece. The Illustrious Jerry and Max 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 49 minutes ago, Max said: 1. War for the Planet of the Apes 2. Spider-Man: Homecoming 3. Coco 4. The Book of Henry Book of Henry was pretty good. Max 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max 141 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Just now, Not Mr. Big said: Book of Henry was pretty good. I agree! I love "Research and Development". I really liked all of Giacchino's 2017 scores; I just found myself returning to The Book of Henry less than the others. Still good, though! Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Will 2,215 Posted June 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2018 Thanks for the recording, @Max! It starts much darker than I had expected for a celebratory piece (not necessarily a bad thing, though!). The piece gets frickin' awesome when the snares kick in near the 2/3 mark, though. It's not really anything we haven't heard from Giacchino before - the haters will still hate, I'm sure, and it won't win any points for originality - but I find it very enjoyable. Particularly near the end it gets that over-the-top celebratory feel that he rarely gets to completely unleash in his scores. Very fun. leeallen01, Max and Disco Stu 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Max said: I tried to get a video recording of Giacchino's new "Voyage" piece, but an usher was standing close to me, so I was only able to get an audio recording, if anyone would like to give it a listen. I thought it was a beautiful piece, and I hope an official recording gets released someday! My recording from the back of the Kennedy Center doesn't do it justice. (The orchestra started playing as John Cho finished reading a poem, so the audience claps at the start of the piece.) Voyage by Michael Giacchino (June 1, 2018) Thank you very much for recording this. I hope we eventually get a release of it from Giacchino himself. Though I suspect it will be released with the rest of the music he is writing for NASA anniversaries soon. I like the theme. Nice and Americana. Some lovely orchestration, especially so in the first couple of minutes with the soft percussion. Max and Will 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ollie 1,059 Posted June 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2018 I ask Giacchino on Twitter today if it was going to be released and his response was “that’s the plan!” Disco Stu, leeallen01, Will and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Giacchino has reached the point in his career that anything he writes is going to get released. What's the last thing he wrote that didn't get a release? This Is Where I Leave You in 2014 I suppose. I suspect all his Disney theme park music (Star Tours, Space Mountain, Ratatouille) will come out by Intrada at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max 141 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, Jay said: Giacchino has reached the point in his career that anything he writes is going to get released. What's the last thing he wrote that didn't get a release? This Is Where I Leave You in 2014 I suppose. I suspect all his Disney theme park music (Star Tours, Space Mountain, Ratatouille) will come out by Intrada at some point. Toy Story That Time Forgot aired in December 2014 and didn't get a release, so technically that would be more recent than This Is Where I Leave You in September 2014... To this day I'm still bummed that Disney didn't release Toy Story That Time Forgot, especially since they released his Toy Story of Terror! score after that special aired in October 2013. TSTTF had a fun prehistoric/mystical/gladiatorial sound with flavors of his Dawn of the Planet of the Apes style. Every now and then I'll rewatch the special just to listen to the score in the background. Speaking of his Disney theme park music, I don't think this was mentioned anywhere, but last month Giacchino recorded music for the new Incredicoaster ride: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 More music for a future Giacchino / Disney / Theme Park / Pixar short compilation! Make it happen, Intrada! Max 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrayodiBA 517 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 The NASA piece is serviceable at best Seeing the current trajectory, i'll be damned, but yes, Giacchino is very much well poised to follow Williams's exact footstep: scoring movies, then scoring American celebratory pieces So, it is safe to assume that Los Angeles 2028 Olympic will be scored by Giacchino. The inauguration of 2020's Democrat president will also be scored by him, and many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 This is a nice exchange. I like hearing little stories like this of how a Composers work can impact a listener. The Illustrious Jerry and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Here's a new 2 hour audio interview with MG https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/michael-giacchino/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Counterpoint: Does Giacchino score too many blockbusters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Fal said: Counterpoint: Does Giacchino score too many blockbusters? Starts out interesting but steadily descends into the heart of darkness. Holy hell what a carpet bombing of weird statements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 On 6/25/2018 at 3:13 PM, Jay said: Here's a new 2 hour audio interview with MG https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/michael-giacchino/ Thanks to Austin traffic being backed up I had 2 hours in traffic to listen to the podcast. Nothing really new for the hardcore film score fan but an entertaining conversation between them. Giacchino would fit in nicely here as a member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 I finished listening to the podcast this morning myself. It was pretty good! Gilbert was honestly pretty annoying, but he did the least amount of talking by far; Most of the talking was between Giacchino and the co-host (Frank). Michael's sister Maria even came on at the end, too. While it's true most of the stories and information we already known to really hardcore fans, I imagine a lot of the casual listeners would be really interested in a lot of the stuff discussed. He talked about: Playing a stormtrooper in TFA, taking Lalo Schifrin out to lunch before scoring MI3 to ask about using his theme, Brad Bird's first instructions to him on The Incredibles (pretty funny), calling up Fiege after seeing Civil War to ask him if he could score Spider-man, saying no to political candidates who wanted to use his Medal of Honor music in their campaigns, getting Williams' approval directly for the Star Tours II music, and all kinds of other stuff. Really good all around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 I need to get a copy of that 20th Century Fox fanfare that he did for War For The Planet Of The Apes. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJosh 892 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 3 hours ago, Jay said: He talked about: Playing a stormtrooper in TFA, taking Lalo Schifrin out to lunch before scoring MI3 to ask about using his theme, Brad Bird's first instructions to him on The Incredibles (pretty funny), calling up Fiege after seeing Civil War to ask him if he could score Spider-man, saying no to political candidates who wanted to use his Medal of Honor music in their campaigns, getting Williams' approval directly for the Star Tours II music, and all kinds of other stuff. I did not know that he asked if he could score Spider-man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 And he also mentioned Williams congratulated him on his Oscar for Up. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Yea, he said Williams called him the next day after he won! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 So, you think you're the next moi, hm? Very cute...I'll be watching you..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeH 768 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 7 hours ago, Jay said: Yea, he said Williams called him the next day after he won! No no, he was calling out for his lunch order and misdialed! Kasey Kockroach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 8 hours ago, MikeH said: No no, he was calling out for his lunch order and misdialed! So he still has Giacchino on speed-dial then? The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Max 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Is that the NASA composition?Sounds weird as a concert piece, the first half at least. I think it needs the visuals. Surely sounds like a space craft count down and take off. The theme is rather medal of honorish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locrius 97 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Just watched GHOST PROTOCOL for the first time tonight. Man, I have such a weird relationship with Giacchino's music; love-hate, I guess you could say. But regardless of the merits of his music, I still can't for the life of me figure out why so many of his scores are mixed to sound so... dry? Dead? Low-quality? I've always noticed and lamented this about his scores and I know I'm kind of beating a dead horse, but GHOST PROTOCOL's score seems particularly egregious to my ears. Giacchino has probably one of the coolest takes ever on the main M:I theme ("Light the Fuse"), and yet the mix makes it sound as though it was recorded with one mic in a high school band room... Actually, scratch that: one mic next-door to a high school band room. And no offense to the musicians, but the orchestrations on Giacchino's music always manage to make the brass playing sound horrible. I don't even think it's just the mix, in this case. I think it's a lot to do with the fact that virtually every section's instruments are constantly playing in unison. With Williams, you have 3 or 4 trumpets and pretty much each guy is on his own part of the harmony. With Giacchino, all 3 or 4 guys are almost always playing the same note, which leads to intonation fuzziness, not to mention it just sounds amateurish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Dan Wallin ruined a lot of his scores with a dry recording. His recent scores recorded by Joel Iwataki instead sound better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Happy birthday, mister Giacchino! Listening to Ratatouille for the first time today. The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 The best of times... The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Giacchino is premiering a ballet based off of his Jupiter Ascending music in Seattle: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/michael-giacchino-film-composer-ballet-seattle-jupiter-ascending-1202988846/?fbclid=IwAR0VKv_EU9saKCGZI-NWJ7VCIwZSeC2J4nbubqhF2BeHzZVIhn1v-1jng_k mstrox and Jay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeallen01 2,136 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 This is such a nice surprise. I love it when random and unexpected Composer news happens. I never would have predicted this for him, which makes it so interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Well JA is such a fine score, it's great news it can live another life not attached to that insipid film! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Jupter Ascending is one of my favourite Michael Giacchino scores (if not my favourite)... so I'm game! Karol Micchel.815 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 2 hours ago, crocodile said: Jupter Ascending is one of my favourite Michael Giacchino scores (if not my favourite)... so I'm game! Karol I guess the Live to Projection was never really and option for it so this seems like a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 It's one of his best, so that's cool. I hope it's more than just slightly retouched versions of the OST suites though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 It's a decent score. It's not exactly great ballet material though...strange choice. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Holy crap Michael Giacchino is a guest on the latest episode of Doug Loves Movies!! Check it out! https://douglovesmovies.com KittBash 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 He said at the end that he isn't currently working on any scores, and his next one will be Spider-man: Far From Home which he'll begin writing in February Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 On 11/15/2018 at 4:44 PM, Jay said: Holy crap Michael Giacchino is a guest on the latest episode of Doug Loves Movies!! Check it out! https://douglovesmovies.com I listened to this this week. A. It reminded why I stopped listening to DLM. I used to be a loyal listener, even went to a taping in LA, but at some point it just stopped appealing to me. It was all downhill after he stopped doing The Leonard Maltin game. The games were less interesting, the guests haven't been as good for a while. I only listen if he has a guest on that interests me, like with Giacchino B. Interesting that Gia has directed a short film starring Patton Oswalt. Weird, but I'll watch it when he inevitably just puts it up for free on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Completely agree that the show was so much better when they did the Leonard Maltin game. The 2-3 times a year now he brings that back are the best episodes every year What brought you out to LA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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