Music Theory and Scoring for Film
Influences
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim , Music Producers and Composers
Joined February 2022
Joined February 2022
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll dive deep into our musical influences. Not only will we cover the composers that we study, but also the music that we listen to and love. This is a fundamental part of how we define our unique artistic voice.”
In this video lesson Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Music Theory and Scoring for Film. Learn how to score a film collaboratively, using your music to convey a feeling and tell the story..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, we'll share with you some of our influences. We've had an important relationship with music and film throughout our entire life. Our compositional process is very well defined because of these influences. My first interaction with music was because of my parents. They used to listen to a lot of records from the US by artists like Billy Joel and Elton John, music from the '70s and the '80s that was very piano-focused. I fell in love with these tunes and I started learning them by ear on the piano. I feel like this exercise of learning these tunes by ear let me ex...”
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Course summary for: Music Theory and Scoring for Film
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Audio, Music, Music Production
Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
A course by Juan Dussán & Alex Wakim
Juan Dussán is a New York-based film composer. Since he was a young child learning the piano, he knew he was destined for a career in the arts. He graduated with a Master’s in Composition studies at New York University and has since worked on over 30 films as a composer, including Francesca Scorcese’s Crimson Ties, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and Wells Watson Jr’s short film Wendigo.
Alex Wakim is a New-York based composer. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from films to video games. He scored the Sony game Horison Forbidden West alongside Oleksa Lozowchuk. His music for the documentary film Glen Eden has been screened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It has been heard through the festival circuit at Raindance Film Festival, Doc NYC, Vail Film Festival, the Arab Film Fest, Tallgrass Film Festival, and more.
Juan and Alex co-founded an advertising music storytelling house called Dekatu Scoring. They have worked on commercials for Air Company, Hourglass Cosmetics, and ILIA Beauty.
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