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There are a lot of composers from the 80’s era you got started in with the likes of “Henry V” and “Dead Again” who also wrote big, lush orchestral scores. But many of them can’t seem to get work anymore because of how the whole dynamic of film scoring is changing. Yet you’ve managed to “re-invent” your sound with scores like “Thor” and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” How’ve you continued your career in that way?
Patrick Doyle:
I’m enthusiastically about all the arts from reading to the theater, and I’ll go to the cinema, as opposed to watching movies in my living room. I’ve always liked the visceral response of the cinema. Because when I go see movies, I’m also subliminally taking in the whole process of what is contemporary and modern. One of my favorite composers is Jerry Goldsmith. And if you listen to his work through the years, you’ll hear how he always embraced the world of technology and modern sound, but remained fundamentally strong in his traditional musical training. I like all music in that way, and am inquisitive about it. I really can adapt quite regularly.
The process of writing “Thor” was fairly hard because I had to stop myself from becoming too, what would you say, “old school?” I had to keep pulling myself back all the time. Everything in the movies has changed. Maybe you’ll be in a phase where everybody is fast cutting, or there are long shots, hand-held shots. All these kinds of images and cutting dictate a certain rhythm in music. If you’re on a project like that, you have to learn to take stock in what you see in front of you, as opposed to you coming in with all your old bags.
You have to come in and start buying some new stuff. I have always been updating my sounds, whether it’s finding them, or creating them. I remember for example when I did a film called “Blow Dry” many years ago. It was a small movie and didn’t do well, but it was a wonderful experience for me because I worked with a young programmer. He came from the pop world. I told him that I was going to make sounds and noises that I wanted him to emulate. And from that, I created some really new, different sounds. I made a conscious decision to something far from anything I’d ever done before.
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