Music Production for Films
Let’s Talk about Music Itself 1
A course by Simon Smith , Musician and Composer
About the video: Let’s Talk about Music Itself 1
Overview
“In this lesson I’d like to stop for a moment and take a look at music itself - to break it down into a simplified grammar that we can use while analysing how and why film music works the way it does. This will also help us to understand our own music from a slightly different perspective and to clarify what options we have when we come to applying any musical ideas to a story. ”
In this video lesson Simon Smith addresses the topic: Let’s Talk about Music Itself 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Production for Films. Explore music as a tool for storytelling by conceptualizing, developing, and producing a score for the big screen.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's Talk About Music Itself In this lesson, I'd like to break music apart simplistically, but in a way that is useful when we talk about applying it in film scoring. What is music itself? The way I think about it, it's kind of organised sounds. They're obviously layers of cultural associations, but deep down there's something in its patterns and its mathematics that resonate with us very deeply. I'm getting cosmic now. They resonate with us because we're symmetrical animals. We walk, we breathe, we have natural cycles of daytime, hormones, all the rest of it. And the same reason why we lo...”
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Course summary for: Music Production for Films
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Category
Music & Audio -
Software
Logic Pro X -
Areas
Music, Music Production
Simon Smith
A course by Simon Smith
Simon Smith is a Barcelona-based musician and composer who specializes in music for film and television. As a child, he was always experimenting with playing different instruments and eventually went on to study music in London, where he found himself drawn towards composing and improvising. Simon went on to release music with a label in the city and play in bands at well-known festivals like Glastonbury before moving on to composing for the big screen.
He has worked in countries around the world including the USA, Germany, Mexico, the UK, and Spain, and his work can be heard both in cinemas as well as on platforms like Netflix and Amazon.
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