Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live
How to Create an Idea
A course by Jonah Schwartz , Musician and Composer
About the video: How to Create an Idea
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn different techniques for collecting ideas for composing music, and you will see the short film I will be scoring for my final project.”
In this video lesson Jonah Schwartz addresses the topic: How to Create an Idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live. Learn how to create an original score by exploring the process of recording, editing, and syncing your music to a film.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to Create an Idea In the last unit, we talked about different theoretical ideas, dealing with music. In this unit, we'll get down to work. First, we'll reflect on where ideas come from and see a few different techniques for collecting these ideas. We'll learn various techniques for capturing a melody and finally, we'll see the short film that we'll work on for our final project. In the popular imagination, ideas pop out of nowhere in these eureka moments, but in my experience that couldn't be further from the truth. People who dedicate themselves to the world of ideas are constantly wor...”
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Course summary for: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live
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Music, Music Production
Jonah Schwartz
A course by Jonah Schwartz
Jonah Schwartz is an American musician and composer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself how to play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo when he was a teenager, and after studying film studies in university, he discovered his passion for film scoring. In 2004, he moved to Argentina and soon became part of the music community in Buenos Aires. The following year, his band was named “Best New Band” by Rolling Stone Argentina.
With his band Los Alamos, Jonah toured through Latin America and Europe, sharing a stage with names like Lee Perry, Calexico, Devendra Banhart and The Evens. After the split of his band in 2009, he started working in film scoring, and has worked on numerous productions, from films to commercials. Jonah wrote the musical score for the Hollywood film Hide (2008), Noche sin fortuna (2011), and others. He has also worked with well-known Argentinian production companies such as Tronco, Bamba, Can Can, and Plently.
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