Have you ever composed any music?
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Well, have you?
And to the members here who actually are composers, I want to ask a different question: Do you feel like you get the proper amount of assignments these days to make a living?
Well, have you?
Yes 😉
And to the members here who are actually composers, I want to ask a different question: Do you feel like you get the proper amount of assignments these days to make a living?
That would really be interesting to hear as AI is surely is leaving some casulties behind on music for media, especially things like advertising I would expect. I heard of illustrators who already lost jobs because of that.
Ah, not sure I will or should 😉 I can share one thing as that is public anyway. I did this trailer for an extension for the open source project I am involved with that some years ago:
Yeah, that’s the feeling I got. I have no idea which tools you used to compose that, but it sounded slick and professional.
“That’s music to my ears” 😉 It was done using a very old version of a DAW named Reason and I think the included libraries augmented with some others. Actually it quite badly mixed and I wanted to re-do it some time.
I have actually composed a few bits, on the piano, back when I was noodling around on it in my childhood and teenage years (see the “Do you play any instrument?” thread).
One of those melodies was clearly inspired by Jean Michel Jarre’s “Calypso, Part 3” from the WAITING FOR COUSTEAU album, although I wouldn’t have admitted it at the time.
Another melody was a strange case, though — many years after I had composed it, I was SHOCKED to hear how similar it was to the main theme from John Williams’ THE EIGER SANCTION. I had churned out that thing years and years before I had even heard of THE EIGER SANCTION. But in recent years, it’s occured to me that the inspiration may have come from somewhere else: Dimitri Tiomkin’s eternal “The Green Leaves of Summer”, which – in some form or fashion – I might have heard during my childhood. There is a link between that song and THE EIGER SANCTION in that melancholic, slightly baroque style. OR – the tune is so straightforward in its “walk up and down the scale”, it’s easy access for everyone.
Other bits and bobs that never amounted to much.
First, it’s been far too long since my last login to this lovely forum. I’ll try to do better!
And to the members here who actually are composers, I want to ask a different question: Do you feel like you get the proper amount of assignments these days to make a living?
I’ll be completely honest, the last couple of years have been kind of rough. I think it’s a combination of several things.
1) We are still feeling the aftermath of Covid. Some projects end up getting cancelled, so there are more «talks about projects that end up leading to nothing», regrettably still filling up valuable time in your calendar.
2) Everything from food to rent to living costs in general is way more expensive than five years ago, yet the admission prices for composed music have stayed more or less the same. This is also related to the fact that projects, if they get funded at all, often get funded with sort of a minimum amount of possible money. So unfortunately, we’re not really in a position to expect a pay raise, most of the time. People still get paid, but often no more than the bare minimum, it seems. This probably applies to everyone within the arts, and not only composers.
3) For me, some projects have simply been more time-consuming than before, meaning room for less projects in total. This is kind of random, though. I am also in my mid 40s now, and really don’t have the drive or energy to work all day and night like I used to in the old days. Not to mention I have a three year old kid, so I seriously can’t. 🙂
4) As for AI, this hasn’t affected me that much, as I mainly compose for theatre and fiction films. For people working a lot with music for commercials or reality TV, they must be feeling it for sure. Luckily, the directors I work with are simply not at all interested in an AI’s «artistic voice», and neither am I.
That’s an interesting peak behind the curtains, Eirik.
I sometimes put dots on paper that may or may not qualify as music, but nowadays I’m mostly decomposing.
I sometimes put dots on paper that may or may not qualify as music, but nowadays I’m mostly decomposing.
Same for me.
Apart from that, I have been writing songs since 40 years.
Unfortunately a lot of it lost in time. But nobody would be listening anyway.
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