[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yes, that’s a point I’ve made a few times over the years, although not so much in relation to music, but films. There was a time, probably throughout most of the 2000s (the tailend of my studies and slightly beyond), I was ALL about alternative cinema, and very anti-Hollywood — basically betraying why I became interested in films in the first place. That has since changed. In recent years, I’ve found myself going going back to my roots, mostly enjoying the type of films I dug as a teen.

As for music, I was never into that whole alternative, modernist scene very much. But I used to be all about bombastic, orchestral action adventure scores. That fizzled out sometime in the late 2000s as well, so for the last 15 years or so, I’ve been all about calmer, soothing, ethereal, lyrical textures and sounds, often with synths or pop ensembles or smaller chamber-sized things. I’ve also become less prejudiced towards composers with a pop background, and can really start to appreciate the scores of composers like Randy Newman, Mark Knopfler, Stewart Copeland, Ry Cooder etc. far more today than I could yesteryear.

Strange how tastes and attitudes change as you get older.