COMM 231 1st EditionLecture 17Outline of Last Lecture • Music in film and collaboration with music composersOutline of Current Lecture • Movie Music• Experimental Music• Different examplesCurrent LectureGrizzly Man (2005)Werner Herzog-DirectorHenry Kaiser-Music producerRichard Thompson-Composer“In The Edges: The Grizzly Man Session,” a behind the scenes look at producing music for the feature documentary about Timothy Treadwell’s life and death among grizzly bearsOscar Nominated Scores in 2011How to Train Your Dragon (John Powell)Inception (Hans Zimmer)The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat)127 Hours (A. R. Rahman)The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) WONExperimental MusicMost music that we hear in films is readily identifiable as just that—music. However, a number of composers create experimental musical scoresA. Use of non traditional instruments (garbage cans, conk shells, broken glass, modified pianos), John CageB. Unusual combinations of instruments and genres (sitar with electric guitar, Arabic vocal trills with hip hop beat; Dead Man WalkingNusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Eddie Vedder: Tablas and Slide Guitar, mixing of South Asian and North American instruments and musiciansC. Composing music in a manner that breaks from the standard conventions of musical arrangement (Reznor and Ross)Amadeus (Foreman)Pay attention to how the picture and sound editing are constructed for these scenesMusic, obviously, considering the subject matter, plays an important dramatic role in this storymusic can be comedic, like when the emperor can’t play the pianodevelops character, describing inner state, realist music, diegetic, reading of music is non diegetic, non diegetic at the
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