Reply To: Changing the way we listen to movies??
There was, of course, the awful period score written by Alex North that was not used (thankfully).
Don’t agree that North’s score is awful. But certainly now that we are all totally used to the “compilation score” (that is what it is, silent movie like compilation) it has a hard time against that. North could only fail writing his own Zarathustra…
The usage is great especially if you don’t alraedy know the works from elsewhere. I mean the waltz is fitting on the space station scenes but it is near a parody, too.
Visually the movie is great and I love the iconic HAL 9000 part. But in generally it drags quite a little about over its running time…
When a director says “write me something that’s exactly like this”, then it is a score but is it an original score?
This is a general question for anything someone creates for someone else in comission when it is part of a bigger work that is not your own. You always follow the vision of someone else. “Write somethig like this” sound not useful but if the person cannot articulate otherwise example always help to find something fitting without endlessy trying (costly) around. But what is “original” actually? This question is actually what makes some circles still value so called “absolute music” more.