[Malte Müller]

I absolutely agree! You always get me with a good theme – I grew up when tv series had themes and started collecting them as a child! 😉 – but music is so much more than just melody. One of my all time favorite scores is Goldsmith’s PLANET OF THE APES which surely has themes but no traditional ones you can whistle. And it is not even the most dissonant non melodic score at all.

I even can appreaciate noise as in the musique concrete meaning. Try and put your ear on your fridge especially when a bit older and starts to cool. Listen closely how many rhythms are layering on top of each other! In fact while studying I had some courses about “Noise” with a guy named Asmus Tietchens who aso works in the Electronic music field (Not sure if anyone knows him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmus_Tietchens). While I studied design/illustration but we also had film/animation almost all courses where crossover and open to all.

So I absolutely understand that current films don’t use the traditional way and even I see that it often wouldn’t fit to the tone. Not to say that lost of current scores exaggerate that approach. It’s often has no standalone value outside of the film (an old prejudice upon film music fullfilled that concert purist always mention first…)