Hlao-roo 389 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I think they should have gone with "Orinoco Flow." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 It gives the score a rather specific New Age quality it would have lacked if it had used a regular choir. Which is something Horner used in many of his other scores.Yeah, I read that he went with the snyth because a real choir would have sounded too "churchy" or something. I dunno, personally I feel it detracts from the score but whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 The synth choir recalls the engineering of Titanic in a way that a real choir just couldn't have.Listen to Southampton. You can hear the ship's steam engine in the mechanical choir. The instrument sounds like a steam-driven invention from that time period, and it works effortlessly. Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 The Enya song is the main reason for the synth choir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,207 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 The synth choir recalls the engineering of Titanic in a way that a real choir just couldn't have. Listen to Southampton. You can hear the ship's steam engine in the mechanical choir. The instrument sounds like a steam-driven invention from that time period, and it works effortlessly. Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision. Nothing wrong with the ideas behind it, but the choir patch itself is like something from 1987, not '97. Intellectualise it all you want, but it just sounds like a cheap synth preset. Nothing befitting the industrial age or a top of the line Olympic-class liner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision.Nothing wrong with the ideas behind it, but the choir patch itself is like something from 1987, not '97. Intellectualise it all you want, but it just sounds like a cheap synth preset. Nothing befitting the industrial age or a top of the line Olympic-class liner.Yes, I should have stated that my problem isn't really with the idea of a synth (there's some good sounding stuff out there these days) it's just that whatever he used sounds like a General MIDI choir or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision.Nothing wrong with the ideas behind it, but the choir patch itself is like something from 1987, not '97. Intellectualise it all you want, but it just sounds like a cheap synth preset. Nothing befitting the industrial age or a top of the line Olympic-class liner.Your perspective validates Jerry Bruckheimer's opinion on woodwinds. Romanticize them all you want, but they just sound like primitive tubes of wood with holes through them. Nothing befitting the incredible sophistication of the British Empire's fleet and the badass Jack Sparrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 The Enya song is the main reason for the synth choir.Not at all. The synth choir is a sly nod to the supreme vainglory of man and his aquatic Tower of Babel. It rings hollow because it's purposefully adumbrative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 The synth choir recalls the engineering of Titanic in a way that a real choir just couldn't have.Listen to Southampton. You can hear the ship's steam engine in the mechanical choir. The instrument sounds like a steam-driven invention from that time period, and it works effortlessly. Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 The synth choir recalls the engineering of Titanic in a way that a real choir just couldn't have.Listen to Southampton. You can hear the ship's steam engine in the mechanical choir. The instrument sounds like a steam-driven invention from that time period, and it works effortlessly. Horner astutely exploits the mechanical nature nature of the sound for the purposes of the ideas the music is conveying. There is nothing cheap or low-budget about it, it's a great artistic decision.My exact reaction to Blume's post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I forget you all masturbate to real choirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I forget you all masturbate to real choirboys.FIXED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,207 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I forget you all masturbate to real choirs. That would cause some odd looks every Monday night in rehearsal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Not if its a church choir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I forget you all masturbate to real choirboys.FIXED!Only if they've been "fixed"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Castrato's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,207 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 The synth choir never bothered me. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 The synth choir never bothered me. RichTHIS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Yeah, I really like the synth use in Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 A quick "Star Wars" question:As heard in the films, what is the longest, and shortest of the "Star Wars" scores? Also, what film has the most amount of music composed for it (including unused music)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,551 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Thanks, Blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted March 31, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2014 I forget you all masturbate to real choirs. Incanus, Koray Savas and Dixon Hill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Anyone remember that John Williams in polo neck (or was it Jerry Goldsmith) Kenner-style action figure in a box that guy here made? Saw it once in some thread but I haven't been able to find it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steb74 53 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Batteries Not Included!London Symphony Orchestra sold separately! Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Thanks! steb74 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,359 Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 What timestamp of "Alarm!" is bar 61-64 of "Room in Flames [7m2]"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 When's the chatroom ever going to return? /nopaedo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 hey asl? u horny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 8/f/bangkokme so hrny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Whatever happened to John Powell?He gave a really frank interview to some sampler site, and since then he's vanished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,370 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Whatever happened to John Powell? He gave a really frank interview to some sampler site, and since then he's vanished. Did you completely miss the fact that he's scoring Rio 2 (OST was released yesterday, and is already on Spotify) and How To Train Your Dragon 2 (film opens June 13) this year? Or are you asking where he's been since scoring The Lorax and Ice Age 4 until now? Does this help? http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16073&p=917146 Link? http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16073&page=11entry894600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Link?http://www.spitfireaudio.com/john-powell-exclusive-qa.htmlI remember when I first read it, it seemed like an April Fool's prank of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Seems like he's just extremely jaded due to getting shit projects for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 He did a Q&A recently with Sergio Mendez for Rio 2. Said he was on shrooms during part of the scoring process for the first film. Guess his answer for what is his inspiration in that interview wasn't a joke Now that he's back I'm hoping Junkie XL will get rejected on Fury Road. Really don't think he'll ever do a live action film again. His last one was 4 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 You're not a true composer if you don't dabble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,837 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I see there was a Horner instruments discussion some posts earlier. I have another one.What is this wind instrument at 5.50''? I always confuse these.Is it a celtic/irish flute? irish low whistle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Ahem, this is the quick question thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Ahem, this is the quick question thread...What?! I answered filmmusic's question without typing a word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Only yes and no answers please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Ahem, this is the quick question thread...What?! I answered filmmusic's question without typing a word.That spambot account posted this giant block of text with videos. It appears to have been deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,837 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Oh, thank you!I just saw this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Why do the IMDb boards still exist? Why haven't they been nuked from orbit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Because its usefull? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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