Anyone in here whos interested in making film scores?

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

I appreciate most people in here enjoy making dance and trance etc. But im interested to discover which members in here use their virus (and other synths) for other genres. Personally i love film scores. When i program synth sounds and play them....i seem to levitate towards Hans Zimmer, Vangelis and Brian Eno styles....

Im a great fan of Hans Zimmers style of writing....I think its genious. And considering he's not classicly trained....it IS genious.

SO what other styles do you guys write/involved in. Anyone into 80's style filmscore....I am!!! Perhaps you could name some of your favourite 80's films scores.

DS

[Tomer=Trance]

Accualy i find great interest in sound designing and music for Gaming.
after doing my army duty and geting out in.... late 2010 im gone study and look for a job in that region but not before i'l go and seriously study clasical music and basics of composition.

[jasedee]

I am doing a project at the moment using images taken from the Pink Floyd DVD "Live in Pompeii", the images being of space, planets etc.... and then also of volcano's, lava flows and eruptions.

We are composing a 5 minute piece inspired by these images, and then editing the images to fit the sound.

The Virus C features heavily in the first half of the piece, using Pink Floyd inspired presets, and other atmospheric pads.

I will post the finished project when we complete it.

[Onkel Dunkel]

I have a plan of doing a stop-motion playdoe movie with a friend of mine someday. She is going to do the stop-motion filming and modeling and i?m going to make soundeffects and score for it 8)

[The girl next door]

I have a plan of doing a stop-motion playdoe movie with a friend of mine someday. She is going to do the stop-motion filming and modeling and i?m going to make soundeffects and score for it 8)
Hay maybe you can do some stuff for "Wallace and Gromit" they need some new material..... :wink:

[MADSTATION]

I actually just got "The Warriors" game in rental(remember that cult classic movie?) and the synths sounds in there area out of this world, really ;)

But when it comes to movie score, I really do like to listen to some but I never really tackled this area, mostly because I don't have much theory in songwriting and I don't have proper surround system to mix on. I'm more interrested in the production side than the writing :)

But I love doing ambiance music:
http://www.madstation.net/mad_amb.mp3

[marc]

I appreciate most people in here enjoy making dance and trance etc. But im interested to discover which members in here use their virus (and other synths) for other genres. Personally i love film scores. When i program synth sounds and play them....i seem to levitate towards Hans Zimmer, Vangelis and Brian Eno styles....

Im a great fan of Hans Zimmers style of writing....I think its genious. And considering he's not classicly trained....it IS genious.

SO what other styles do you guys write/involved in. Anyone into 80's style filmscore....I am!!! Perhaps you could name some of your favourite 80's films scores.

DS

i did a lot of music to pictures in a previous live. if you're into hans' stuff, aka fairly epic you really should check out what he did with james newton howard on "Batman begins". it's a huge orchestra, recorded in london and it sounds certainly very huge ;)

another guy to recommend is John Powell, who for instance wrote the music for Italian Jon which is a nice blend intween Orchstra and Breakbeat

- marc

[Tomer=Trance]

I thought the 2003 (?) Italian Job was terrible compering to the original one (197x).

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

Thx Marc.....i'll check those out!

Music for films *can* add so much atmosphere. I hate it when i watch an otherwise great film where the music sucks. Modern films seem to use big orchestra type arrangements....and thats fair enough....but im a stickler for those minimalist, atmospheric analog synth driven tracks of the late 70's early 80's. I also enjoy the DX7 and Fairlight overkill of mid 80's late 80's tracks too.

Marc have you seen any of these films? WALL STREET (Emulator II strings), FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR (DX7), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (DX7), GOONIES (various synths), RAIN MAN (DX7, Fairlight) etc etc

Love these scores.....and synth sounds. It would be very cool if you could implement true FM synthesis in a Virus at a later stage.....FM is beautiful.

DS

[Onkel Dunkel]

I have a plan of doing a stop-motion playdoe movie with a friend of mine someday. She is going to do the stop-motion filming and modeling and i?m going to make soundeffects and score for it 8)
Hay maybe you can do some stuff for "Wallace and Gromit" they need some new material..... :wink:

Actually the girl i will be making it with is a huge fan of wallace and gromit :wink:

[Smag]

I thought the 2003 (?) Italian Job was terrible compering to the original one (197x).

1971

"You're a big man but you're out of shape, for me it's a full time job"

[~+?]

:D Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis pops to mind as a good one. The Exorcist Jack Nitzsche, Mike Oldfiled works well. All Kubrick film soundtracks are amazing. I liked the first BLADE soundtrack especially the Acid track that was played in the club it sounded amazing at the cinema.
Me and a m8 are just starting a business doing Audio for Image. I do 3D design and animation as a hobby and have done stuff for music and clubs before! Making music for animation is interesting. Is there any 3D artists , animators that use the Virus here?

[Trance Explorer]

Ive always been a big fan of music in films and how it effects the audience. The way music can create atmosphere, Horror and sci fi films in particular

Being fairly new to music production i can say i have tried yet or would know where to start.

But its deffinetly something im am planning to do in the future

[Dovdimus Prime]

Yep deffo. But I need to increase my understanding of musical theory first.

I go to classical concerts a lot and have noticed the number of 'parameters' acoustic instrumentalists have at their disposal. The subtle variations in timbre and their uses in affecting the feel of the playing are varied and striking.

The virus is a very flexible instrument and I believe a really good synth programmer should be able to produce patches with a wide range of nuance. I'm trying to work towards that myself, but alas, am really quite shit at programming patches!

[techno_7]

Im interested to discover which members in here use their virus (and other synths) for other genres.

My main genres are ambient and chill-out, so yeah, i do other genres with Virus than dance/trance/techno/ect. I don't usually do "beat music"...

The virus is a very flexible instrument and I believe a really good synth programmer should be able to produce patches with a wide range of nuance.

Go flexibility! :D