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    "Esmerelda" (animated music video I directed)

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    15 minutes ago, Muad'Dib said:

     

    I organized the project, chose the camera shots, decided what was a yay or a nay (like if an animation shot was good to go or not) and kept in touch with the band to see if what we did was up to their liking. Thankfully, they were super supportive and liked almost everything we presented to them.

     

    And I also wrote the script :)

     

    Hell yeah! Hope this leads into other projects!

    TROS seems to have been temped with Gordy Haab's Battlefront II score

    in JOHN WILLIAMS

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    Another element I don't understand from the OP is the quasi-conspiratorial notion that Williams omitted the track due to shame or something of having ripped off the alleged temp. There are multiple albums he's put out over the decades where the temp track inspirations are very apparent...including Dune Sea from '77 OG. Don't see any reason for him to get sheepish all of a sudden.

     

    Now that Haab's been in Lucas orchestra land for over a decade, I would be interested in hearing him write non-Williams pastiche.

    TROS seems to have been temped with Gordy Haab's Battlefront II score

    in JOHN WILLIAMS

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    3 minutes ago, Drew said:

     

    It's certainly different from the rest of the score, which had a less frantic and more melodic action style.

     

    Ultimately you're talking about a few seconds of similar chords and rhythms, aren't you? That's nowhere near enough to justify this claim, especially with, as many of us pointed out, the similarities and continuity of ideas from earlier scores such as ESB to this track.

    The Golden Age of Film Scoring Thread

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    Herrmann is my favorite composer of that era by far, but a number of my favorite scores from him are outside the time range that I saw mentioned in the OP. 

     

    Gotta be honest, Korngold practically never does it for me. That thick, busy sound he has just shuts me out. But amid the shroud of string runs, there is a hidden eye of the storm that brings me delight...

     

     

     

     

     

    Video Game Music

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    As others have said, it's a really cool project, and also shows how sneaky these composers had to be sometimes (re-sampling propietary instrument sounds in some cases), but overall I prefer the original more often than not.

     

    The SNES was notorios difficult to write music for, using a pain-in-the-ass programming language that required lots of trial and error...I believe Kondo was still the main programmer of his music until the N64 days, where he strictly focused on the composition and let someone else handle the technical nitty gritty of compiling and implementing the music in the hardware, so it's all but guaranteed he knew the compression of the samples and adjusted accordingly. This probably played a huge part in making all these disparate sound sources sound simpático with each other, and married them using the obscene DSP (reverb/echo) that was baked into the SPC700 soundchip.

     

    Interestingly, while Nintendo massively bungled the GBA sound, it actually allowed for better, cleaning sounding samples than that of the SNES'.

     

     

    6 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

    After all, they offered entirely new possibilities - new sounds, and also a way to put multiple sounds (e.g. chords) into a single sample.

     

    Tim Follins was a master of this, using these techniques to really push past boundaries and create music for the systems he worked on that you just don't hear anywhere else.

     

     

     

    :o

    Video Game Music

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    5 hours ago, Spider-Fal said:

    "Restored" Super Mario World OST using "uncompressed" samples.

     

    Oof. I didn't look into their process, but that reverb with the higher quality samples kills it for me. It could just be replicated from the notorious SNES DSP. 

    What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)

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    3 hours ago, Jay said:

    Powell's Solo sounds like less Williams' originals than Gordy's Battlefront, but is immensely more satisfying and original because it has great themes and does amazing fun things with the orchestra.  This score just... is.

     

    I think a massive part of that is Powell channeled Williams'  guiding spirit, so to speak, whereas Haab tried to channel Williams' aesthetics. Ironically, given how lavishly the latter attempt tries to hang on to Williams' turtleneck, the former is far more successful at tapping into the feeling of Star Wars and why we tuned in in the first place.

    3 hours ago, Raiders of the SoundtrArk said:

    Unlike Battlefront II which had a nice recurring theme

     

    I thought it was dorky at first, but by the more climactic cues, Haab got some good mileage out of it.

    The NINTENDO Thread

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    Very true. Especially throughout the pandemic, I've derived a lot of joy out of playing Switch games online with my brother out of state. We'd dreamed of having a multiplayer Pikmin game for 16 years, and they finally revealed one in 3 Deluxe!.......but it's only couch co-op.

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