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Branagh/Doyle
It’s so funny to think that all that industry, so common only a few years ago, has now utterly changed because the advent of computers and modern software have made the old style music copyist completely redundant. This important skill has been totally bypassed by “Sibelius’’, an ingenious music writing computer software that will produce music as perfect as a printer and perform all vital functions connected with the production of printed scores and orchestral parts.
And all in a few years. Composers who write for films and television have also had their lives and working methods changed by computers. It would be very difficult to compose for these media nowadays without using a computer, indeed there is now a new official profession of “electronic composer” that has come into being. Pat is one such composer who has changed his work method, as I described earlier, and “gone electronic”. But here I have to speak for myself when I say these changes have not always been for the better.
Previously the director would have been satisfied with a conference with his composer in which he would be played themes on a piano, which he could approve, while the fine detail of each music cue could be left to the composer to write in his own way. That state of affairs has been changed by computers. Now the director can ask for, and get, an electronic “mock up” of the final score to approve or disapprove. This is called a “demo”, which the director can take away with him as a music file and play to himself or even add to his picture to see how I suits him.
For the director, this may seem to be fine. But for the composer, his creative freedom is now compromised. He is effectively chained to that version of his music. If he decides on a better version, he has to persuade the director that the new version is better, and probably has to produce a new “demo” to support his argument.
This has given the director even more control over his composer than he already had. I don’t have to tell you that this state of affairs is not always popular with composers!
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