Hans Zimmer
Technology
DAW's
Spitfire Audio
Sound Design
Synths
Experimental Methods
Ambience
Perspective
Brian Eno
Texture
Live Synths
Production
Orchestra
Dark Knight Razorblade
John Williams
Dune Throat Singing
Live Shows
Composition Factory
Ghost Writers
Criticisms
James Newton Howard
John Powell
Harry Gregson-Williams
Capitalism
Collaborations
Junkie XL
No Tiime To DIe Link Title
Culture
Kung Fu Panda
Dune
The Last Samaurai
Gladiator
"recycled and generic blockbuster music" Link
Ennio Morricone
Danny Elfman
Remote Control Productions
"He was one of the pioneers of melding lush orchestration with modern electronic sounds to create a unique hybrid of the two." http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
"Hans Zimmer got his start as a member of The Buggles before making the shift into writing music for feature films." http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
Originally Media Ventures Entertainment Group
"Media Ventures where studios and composers meet all under one roof!" http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
"Zimmer and Rifkin formed Media Ventures in 1989, after Zimmer had finished his first Hollywood score, for "Rain Man" http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
The idea was simple: "To create an environment that included not only Hans Zimmer's MIDI Studio but also a world class tracking and surround mixing studio to create a synergy between the film composer and the mix studio," says Rifkin http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
Factory Line
Currently, the Media Ventures Entertainment Group boasts a studio campus spanning over 40,000 square feet. Here you'll find multi-media entertainment's spectrum of services with several divisions covering everything from scoring, studio services, music editorial services and music publishing to Web design and online marketing development, and even film and television production. http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
Motown
Kanye
Zimmer Countersuit Accuses Rifkin of Embezzlement, Fraud
'The composers split fees with Media Ventures and left once their own careers were established.'
By the late 1990s, the company had hired numerous “resident composers” to assist with Zimmer’s scores and other composing projects. Link Title
Zimmer and Rifkin have fostered - at least in the Hollywood music production scene - a cooperative workplace atmosphere that cannily melds the traditions of the old studio system, the Silicon Valley bottom-up teamwork concept and the European mode of painters "schools", in which artists from Michelangelo to Rodin formed groups of protégés around them. http://www.studioexpresso.com/Spotlight%20Archive/Spotlight-Media%20Venture.htm
During their partnership, Zimmer did the composing and Rifkin handled the engineering, recording, producing and business affairs. Link Title
The suit alleges that in order to keep the talent it nurtured, Media Ventures decided that the composers must sign management contracts with the company and that, to set a precedent, Zimmer would be the first to sign a formal agreement. Although Zimmer did not have a contractual obligation to use Media Ventures, the suit alleges that the company relied on Zimmer’s use and gave him substantial benefits such as increasing his fees and improving his deal with ASCAP.
Zimmer, however, informed Rifkin that he would no longer commission Media Ventures to work on his scores and allegedly encouraged other composers, via a series of secret emails, to break their ties with the company and join his new composer fraternity.
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It’s not necessarily a flawed approach – Ennio Morricone wrote some of the greatest scores of all time based on the screenplay, not the film; Alfred Newman and co used to farm out scores to assistants during the studio era Link Title
here is always the danger that with so many cooks having a go at the broth, they want their own part to stand out, seem like the most important, and in the end nothing seems important Link Title
Pharrell, composer Hans Zimmer collaborate on 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' opera Link Title
Pharrell Williams
Johnny Marr
Michael Einziger
Alicia Keys
Kendrick Lamar
Billie Eilish
FINNEAS
Johnny Marr
"it was more collaborative than you'd think actually—which I was surprised by because I thought it would just be like, here's the song, and they take it and...then I would have no say, but they actually were completely, they really wanted to know what I think." Link Title
"Hans was incredibly—like, easy to work with and he's so funny and, like, it was a really good, collaborative experience." Link Title
Blue Planet 2
"tidal orchestra" — a musical effect created by instructing each player to play their notes only if the person next to them isn’t playing. The result is a musical bed that captures the motion of ocean waves by randomly swelling and fading through the entire series.
Radiohead - Bloom
Radiohead - Bloom
Pointillism Link Title
Radnomness in Music
Compositional dice games from the 1700s Link Title
Aleotoric - when a part of the composition or performance is left to chance or the player
Blending of high and low culture
Band Setup
Blending of high and low culture
Musical Signifigance
Cultural Signifigance
Kramer - Waerner - Dystopian Elements
John Carpenter bringing in guitars
Shepherd Tone
Dunkirk
Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor
Who has he influenced
It's Raining Today - Scott Walker
Moving away from the romantic classical sound to dystopian darker
Outsourcing
AI??
Daft Punk
Hyperreal and sounds
EBSCO, Google Scholar, Other producers
Inception
Avant-Garde
4 songs or pieces
Suggested essay structuere
Post-Modernism