Jim Ware

Shore had approval over any podium changes of this nature.

Good question, and I don't have an answer! They also recorded more Moria music than was used in the preview. Perhaps the Cannes preview went through several different editorial concepts, or the finale was previewed to New Line executives at some time?

The NZSO finale was recorded to picture and still synchronises apart from a section in the middle. Footage was apparently deleted between Frodo and Sam rowing across the river and the cut back to Gimli and company on the shore. The recording was never finished - the tail end of the piece is missing choral overlays which were never recorded - and the entire composition was tweaked and re-recorded in London in Autumn 2001.

They need to fix their shopping platform! Everyone else can quite happily ship to the UK.

Fantastic location! I loved going there as a kid.

And the cuts are all notated in the score. It's possible (though unlikely) that some of it may have been rehearsed and recorded.

The rears are primarily orchestral ambience, but there is some discrete synth placement. Chorus has a particularly enveloping quality too.

As I said above, Varese could have presented the original 24/48 5.1 PCM audio on a blu-ray audio disc. Releasing it on SACD necessitates transcoding to DSD.

I have! The rears are very active throughout, creating a highly immersive and detailed soundstage with a LOT of bass. It sounds great for the most part. The mastering is a little odd on the quieter cues - Through The Surveillance Monitor for example - they sound *much* too loud in some cases and room noise is clearly audible. I question the wisdom of releasing this as an SACD rather than a Blu-ray audio. In my view it would have made more sense to present the 24/48 5.1 PCM audio on BR audio.

I have no idea if these slate numbers are correct, but they came up on freedb when I ripped the disc. Disc One: 1. Paycheck: Main Title From The Motion Picture (3:29) 1m2 2. A Kiss Of Flexible Morality (1:10) 1m4 3. Memory Wipe (0:54) 1m5 4. A Good Life (1:05) 1m6 5. Party Of Two (0:32) 1m7 6. Portents Of Crystal Balls (2:11) 1m10 7. Injection (0:32) 2m11 8. A Second Chance (1:54) 2m13 9. You’re Done (1:16) 2m14 10. Freeze Frames (1:59) 2m15 11. Hot Seat (7:39) 2m16 12. The Ring (0:42) 2m17 13. That’s You (0:31) 3m18 14. Twenty Items (5:39) 3m19-21 15. Lucky Number (2:01) 3m22 16. Wolfe Pack (4:01) 3m23-24 17. The Third Rail (3:28) 3m25 18. Reservations (3:25) 4m26 19. Mirror Message/Imposter (8:43) 4m27-28 Disc Two: 1. Hog Chase Pt.1 (3:18) 4m29a 2. Hog Chase Pt.2 (4:06) 4m29b 3. I Don’t Remember (1:33) 5m30v1 4. I Don’t Remember (Alternate Version) (1:35) 5m30v2 5. Tomorrow’s Headlines (4:27) 5m31 6. Return to Allcom (3:13) 5m32 7. Future Tense (7:58) 5m33 8. Bio Lab Bash (3:08) 6m34 9. Fait Accompli (6:39) 6m35 10. One Big Payback (5:37) 6m36 11. Uma’s Tune (Bonus Track) (2:55)

A little 20 year retrospective podcast for anyone interested... https://leadingtone.podbean.com/e/ai-artificial-intelligence/

I believe the comments from Neil S. Bulk on the FSM thread; the question is, who is 'harryfrishberg'?

Falstaft beat me to it with the link to the fifteen year old thread, so here's a contemporaneous one from FSM (with classic Ford Thaxton): https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=42799&archive=0

Please do not give theonering.net any ideas!

This has not gone unnoticed.