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Yesterday I went to a sort of strange concert of sorts with Michi done off campus for her college's music and theater department. It was simply called The Music of TV & Film and feeling uncreative tonight I decided to use its title for my dinky LJ entry here. Anyway. It was a really cool experience. When Michi told me about it she was sort of hesitant because I love concerts and live music but this was where students of both departments worked together to collect pieces of music in various television and film productions that personally effected them while watching and listening to them and then they playing the selections along with the clip from whatever television show or film it came from. The sound quality was utterly fantastic because of the surround sound speakers they used. They played the clips through a projector on a large portable screen that took them a few extra minutes to put up and delayed the show for around fifteen minutes. But it was totally worth the wait. To make the whole thing even cooler, in my opinion anyway, the students chose instrumental pieces of music.
I like vocals in my music but I have a great fondness for instrumental soundtrack cds. Particularly ones done by Danny Elfman who is the former lead singer of my favorite ska band, Oingo Boingo. Danny has composed an endless amount of soundtracks. So many that he even got a fun MST3K riff about it where they made their own mini movie and put him down as their composer then said in parentheses after his name: Yes, again!
Honestly, look Danny up and I bet you'll be shocked at how many movies you've seen that he's responsible for the music. He's done all the music for Tim Burton's films including Pee Wee's Big Adventure. But I think instrumental music is key in setting up scenes in film. It really can make or break a picture and what the students did really did a fantastic job showing that.
I knew pretty much all of the pieces that were featured and two of them happened to be from movies that I love and by composers that I love. I was just talking about Saw the other day and the fantastic end song to that movie was played along with the clip. If you love horror movies you need to see Saw if you haven't already. It's pretty brilliant if you ask me and definitely freaky. The only horror movie that I like more that's sort of on that same level but is WAY worse is Audition. Ugh... dude. I just shivered thinking about it. Yeah, laugh at me now but go ahead and see Audition and you'll be shivering too. Every time I have like a typical straight male friend who is all like, "I love horror movies blah blah." Then they go and say their favorite is like fucking Final Destination or Nightmare On Elm Street I'm like, "That's not horror. That commercialized bullshit. You must watch Audition." Then they look at the cover with the cute Japanese girl and laugh at me. But then! Oh, then we watching the fucking movie and they're soon traumatized by it in the same way I am.
Ugh. Audition. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
But back to my fucking cool concert. They played Hello Zepp by Charlie Clouser from the Saw Soundtrack which played in the last scene of the movie. Probably one of the fucking best endings for a horror movie I've seen in a long time. It definitely leaves you wanting to talk about the film with whoever happened to see it with you. Kick ass stuff. The other song they played that I loved is the title theme for the Planet of the Apes remake by Danny Elfman. I know a lot of people have issues with this movie and hated it but the music for it was fucking great and honestly, Tim Burton can do no wrong by me. He's never made anything that I've hated and I've liked all of his movies. I might not love Planet of the Apes but I like it fine enough. And anyway, I think the visual style that Tim has makes anything he's directing worth while to watch. He has a beautiful sense of style.
And now I'm done fucking rambling. Here are the two songs that I liked the most at the concert if you want to have a listen. They're both pretty heavy and dramatic but that's their point.
Hello Zepp by Charlie Clouser (Saw Soundtrack): http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14HP6GEIAAB840P70RC6XFHDO0
Title Theme by Danny Elfman (Planet of the Apes Soundtrack): http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3CRU4W284HI4A3EHCZQ07D5AXZ
I like vocals in my music but I have a great fondness for instrumental soundtrack cds. Particularly ones done by Danny Elfman who is the former lead singer of my favorite ska band, Oingo Boingo. Danny has composed an endless amount of soundtracks. So many that he even got a fun MST3K riff about it where they made their own mini movie and put him down as their composer then said in parentheses after his name: Yes, again!
Honestly, look Danny up and I bet you'll be shocked at how many movies you've seen that he's responsible for the music. He's done all the music for Tim Burton's films including Pee Wee's Big Adventure. But I think instrumental music is key in setting up scenes in film. It really can make or break a picture and what the students did really did a fantastic job showing that.
I knew pretty much all of the pieces that were featured and two of them happened to be from movies that I love and by composers that I love. I was just talking about Saw the other day and the fantastic end song to that movie was played along with the clip. If you love horror movies you need to see Saw if you haven't already. It's pretty brilliant if you ask me and definitely freaky. The only horror movie that I like more that's sort of on that same level but is WAY worse is Audition. Ugh... dude. I just shivered thinking about it. Yeah, laugh at me now but go ahead and see Audition and you'll be shivering too. Every time I have like a typical straight male friend who is all like, "I love horror movies blah blah." Then they go and say their favorite is like fucking Final Destination or Nightmare On Elm Street I'm like, "That's not horror. That commercialized bullshit. You must watch Audition." Then they look at the cover with the cute Japanese girl and laugh at me. But then! Oh, then we watching the fucking movie and they're soon traumatized by it in the same way I am.
Ugh. Audition. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
But back to my fucking cool concert. They played Hello Zepp by Charlie Clouser from the Saw Soundtrack which played in the last scene of the movie. Probably one of the fucking best endings for a horror movie I've seen in a long time. It definitely leaves you wanting to talk about the film with whoever happened to see it with you. Kick ass stuff. The other song they played that I loved is the title theme for the Planet of the Apes remake by Danny Elfman. I know a lot of people have issues with this movie and hated it but the music for it was fucking great and honestly, Tim Burton can do no wrong by me. He's never made anything that I've hated and I've liked all of his movies. I might not love Planet of the Apes but I like it fine enough. And anyway, I think the visual style that Tim has makes anything he's directing worth while to watch. He has a beautiful sense of style.
And now I'm done fucking rambling. Here are the two songs that I liked the most at the concert if you want to have a listen. They're both pretty heavy and dramatic but that's their point.
Hello Zepp by Charlie Clouser (Saw Soundtrack): http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14HP6GEIAAB840P70RC6XFHDO0
Title Theme by Danny Elfman (Planet of the Apes Soundtrack): http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3CRU4W284HI4A3EHCZQ07D5AXZ
