Christopher Nolan’s films are quite a challenge for a film composer. Content and structure are complicated and they seem to rely on sound more than on music. I recently watched The Prestige and I have[…]
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Tag: alternate score
Rescore Project finished: “Your Name”
I’m happy to share with you the final version of my latest rescore project, the 2016 anime Your Name, and also the story behind it: My daugther immediately fell in love with the book and[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #24 – Searching and Epilogue
We’ve come to the end – the end of the film and the end of this advent calendar. Below you find the answer to the rescore riddle. I hope you had fun and enjoyed listening[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #23 – The Comet
We have arrived at the key moment of the story. The music accompanies the girl who’s tried so much to avoid the catastrophe, but ultimately seems to have failed. The music starts when she has[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #22 – The Time Has Come
Though it’s not the last one, this track actually scores the finale of the film. It’s dramatic and functions as a pulse in this long scene which covers many perspectives and characters. Some of them[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #21 – A Moment Together
A magical moment arises in today’s track: Our two people are temporarily able to meet on a particular place at a particular time. The music leads through three stages – uneasy, solemn and relief –[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #20 – Realization
It’s complicated – again. There’s a kind of flashback and finally some important realization about events that happened in the past. That’s also our hint of the day: The whole story is about some kind[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #19 – Worried, The Town Gone
Today’s track was not easy to compose. It’s got a lot of psychology in it as it’s about a girl who is worried about the future and expressing that notion to others. There’s some subtle,[…]
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Guess-The-Rescore #18 – Mission Briefing
Awkward music awaits today as three kids prepare for a somewhat childish plan. Enjoy some Mission Impossible heist music clichés embedded in comic relief. How it works: Based on the music and on small hints that[…]
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