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  1. Dixon Hill
    This sounds like a neat score. I've not heard much of Abel's stuff, but he definitely knows how to do the ostinato/pulse type thing in an interesting way. Very colorful orchestration too. What's the best entry point for listening to his work?
  2. Dixon Hill
    Here's hoping for a Bilbo line like this: "Is that a fourth leg, Smaug the Magnificent, or are you just pleased to see me?" Don't think it can't happen.
  3. Dixon Hill
    You beat me to it. I was about to say that Zimmer had a history as a keyboard and synth player as well as producer in the pop/rock world before he started composing for film, and I think that history is clearly audible in his film music. Also, James Newton Howard commented that when he worked with Zimmer on Batman Begins, it was a good match because they both conceived of the score much like an album, i.e., the way a music producer would. Consider how different his soundtrack albums are from their respective films, blending cues together and rearranging them according to the concerns of an album. All this is to say that Zimmer's film music has strong roots in another kind of music than the formerly more typical connection to concert music. We could probably say it's a new kind of film music, but it would be difficult to call it a new, purely "filmic" type of music. I agree with the sentiment you raise, but it's not really fair to say he's not a composer, is it? Anyone who writes music of any kind is a composer. There's no other way to define it objectively. Why not just say there are different types of composers, some who have a background in pop and rock rather than classical? I know this isn't what you're saying, but it can sound like we're trying to preserve the term "composer" for only those who are "worthy" of the title, when there is no objective distinction to be made. No, I agree with you. I'm (rather jokingly) suggesting it might soothe the souls of others if Zimmer and Williams are more semantically segregated.
  4. Dixon Hill
    "Sonic landscaper" "Tonal architect" "Organizer of auditory phenomena" Just some suggestions on how to classify this new breed.
  5. Dixon Hill
    You beat me to it. I was about to say that Zimmer had a history as a keyboard and synth player as well as producer in the pop/rock world before he started composing for film, and I think that history is clearly audible in his film music. Also, James Newton Howard commented that when he worked with Zimmer on Batman Begins, it was a good match because they both conceived of the score much like an album, i.e., the way a music producer would. Consider how different his soundtrack albums are from their respective films, blending cues together and rearranging them according to the concerns of an album. All this is to say that Zimmer's film music has strong roots in another kind of music than the formerly more typical connection to concert music. We could probably say it's a new kind of film music, but it would be difficult to call it a new, purely "filmic" type of music.
  6. Dixon Hill
    Thank you! Wonderful piece. Try his second symphony as well. The first movement is... dense, but the second is outstanding.
  7. Dixon Hill
    I hear he and Williams host wild parties bordering on the ritualistic, with the most exclusive of guest lists, at a secret beach estate where the password is "Fidelio." That's actually why he scaled back on his work for DoS.
  8. Dixon Hill
    I guess watching a ladies man surrounded by hot babes (and a piano) in a groovy 1970's LA bungalow pool party would have been more suited to your liking. They told me there was no film in that camera....
  9. Dixon Hill
    In the short, or did you get your hands on the score itself somehow? It's so beautiful.
  10. Dixon Hill
    Yes I think the cello concerto is what he is working on in it.
  11. Dixon Hill
    I could see 1 and maybe 2 being somewhat un-engaging outside of the game, but you're right, the subsequent ones do get better. This is a nice kind of "suite" presentation of some themes. I guess maybe the whole prog-rock/orchestral fusion thing is an acquired taste.
  12. Dixon Hill
    Yeah, I love that video. His concert pieces really need to be released.
  13. Dixon Hill
    He seems like the kind of guy who might not be into all the non-musical crap that comes with working in Hollywood. But I would love it too. Here's the preview that I mentioned.
  14. Dixon Hill
    O'Donnell should be the great movie music hope, let alone his stellar work in the games industry. Yes. What he's done for Destiny with Paul McCartney seems to be quite excellent, from the little that's been heard so far.
  15. Dixon Hill
    Alias, Firefly, Sherlock.
  16. Dixon Hill
    Maybe we should stop calling him a composer. That might make people happier. He's like... a songwriter/producer who works on film music. Not saying that derisively, I just think maybe it better suits his whole aesthetic.
  17. Dixon Hill
    Nice. Gonna try for that one as well
  18. Dixon Hill
    I like a lot.
  19. Dixon Hill
    Damn! Someone noticed my quote-memory deficiencies!
  20. Dixon Hill
    You know, I'm sure people have mixed feelings about that golf scene... but the way Gandalf says, "Yes, well he could!" is just one of the most Gandalfy things in all the films. Made me grin.
  21. Dixon Hill
    Yeah, Don't Dream It's Over first got my attention when it was used in the beginning of The Stand. Nice tune. They definitely have some presence in the US.
  22. Dixon Hill
    I wouldn't exactly call him local... that song I posted has been used quite a bit. Crowded House was a big thing
  23. Dixon Hill
    Wonderful orchestration by Respighi of three Bach chorale preludes. The third is particularly stunning
  24. Dixon Hill
    Hey, this is pretty groovy to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-Tn_w5E1w
  25. Dixon Hill
    Hahaha. Love all the Lovecraft references
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