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- Thread starter Bjazzman
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Really quite refreshing to see an electronic score win it for a change.
Nice little brief history of the matter in Slate:
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Nice little brief history of the matter in Slate:
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i'm always down for some good electronic stuff, but i do like how orchestras are returning to film scores. a lot of times, electronic scores were done to simulate orchestral music and replace the orchestra, and if you listen to those films it sounds really cheesy. so the musician side of me is really glad to hear less cheaping out in film scores these days.
but i think trent's stuff worked because he wasn't trying to replace an orchestra but let the electronics do their own thing. and he actually works the electronics rather than just program them and hit play. really cool stuff.
but i think trent's stuff worked because he wasn't trying to replace an orchestra but let the electronics do their own thing. and he actually works the electronics rather than just program them and hit play. really cool stuff.
See I feel like it's been largely nothing BUT full-on orchestral scores for the last 10+ years or so! Of course there are exceptions but in the big studio blockbusters I think people haven't been very adventurous of late. It's ironic, with all the advances in the visual end of things, to be sticking to tradition so much in the music. It's playing it safe, trying to ensure you have something "big" and "timeless" in place for the music.
As for trying to simulate a real orchestra, these days it's usually a budget matter (virtual instruments have gotten to the point now where most people can't tell, but in older films you sure can as you say!). Often virtual strings are used to augment a smaller "real" string section when money is tight (I compose for TV and that approach is used quite a lot--no time, no money, a few real players on top of the sampled stuff works wonders). But, it's still going for that traditional-sounding end result. An orchestra is always gonna sound good, sure, but there's LOTS of styles of music that can work to picture and bring the emotion if folks stretch out a bit. So I'm jazzed to see a decidedly electronic score winning this time.
That's my film music tirade for the day
