{"id":28918,"date":"2017-07-01T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T04:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/?p=28918"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T04:13:25","slug":"composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/composers","title":{"rendered":"Composers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was checking out the new Spitfire Orchestral Kontakt library, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spitfireaudio.com\/shop\/a-z\/bernard-herrmann-composer-toolkit\/\">BERNARD HERRMANN COMPOSER TOOLKIT<\/a> and while it was downloading (136GB!) I started watching Youtube videos about Herrmans iconic scores&#8230;. Many of those films I first experienced before I knew anything about film scores or sound design or anything&#8230; Anyway this isn&#8217;t one of them, but it is related &#038; it makes me appreciate Thomas Newman even more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oeHNUJ-hNmE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate the part at 15.50 about the motivation for a music cue&#8230; landscape versus character&#8230; &#038; the issue of redundant music! I went &#038; saw a film in the theatre the other day and from the first frame the score was over-used and totally over bearing. In a 90 minute film there must have been 70 minutes of music or more&#8230; and about 80% of it felt redundant! (I don&#8217;t necessarily blame the composer as its impossible to know how the film arrived at its final form)<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, how freaking great is this!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OKPC-T3jjRg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What a great job that teacher is doing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was checking out the new Spitfire Orchestral Kontakt library, BERNARD HERRMANN COMPOSER TOOLKIT and while it was downloading (136GB!) I started watching Youtube videos about Herrmans iconic scores&#8230;. Many of those films I first experienced before I knew&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sound-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28996,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions\/28996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}