Michael Nyman is often credited with inventing the term Minimalism, at least as it’s applied to music. But aside from his journalistic achievements, which are many, he also started writing music in a style I might call classical minimalism. What I mean by that is minimalism that is actually based on classical music. While Philip Glass, […]
Hans Zimmer is likely the 300-pound gorilla of any room he walks into. Okay, so he’s not a movie star, but he’s a pop star and more importantly a movie scoring genius.
I recently attended a film scoring conference where he joined an amazing panel for a discussion. Of course, his voice rang the loudest and […]
The Showtime show Weeds begins every new show with a protest song called “Little Boxes.” The song is about how people are placed on the assembly belt of univeristy education, vocational complacency, raising children in cookie-cutter homes, etc. Accompanying the song are images of the little boxes (tract housing) and their denizens dressed identically going […]
Sides: The Fear is Real is the new play at the East West Players featuring the talents of Mr. Miyagi’s Theater Company, an Asian-American New York theater company. While not exactly transcendent or relevatory, it is good for a more than a few laughs, especially if you remember bombing yourself at a make-it-or-break-it audition. At a brisk 75 […]
Sigur Ros needs to do a film score has done film scores! You can find three tracks from their soundtrack work at the official Sigur Ros website. Their works have so much atmosphere in them. In addition, their music has appeared in Vanilla Sky, 24, The Life Aquatic, the trailer for Children of Men, and even CSI. […]
