I must say, I am impressed. Track 4 even convinced me that he could very well write the songs contained in the story.

Again I am indebted to this great community. You guys and gals have taught me so much and here I have another great score and feel much better about the coming score for this epic movie series.

Thanks again.

Scott

NP: Dogma

I've never heard anything by Horner that's even a bit appropriate for LOTR. Willow (except for the extremely annoying Schumann parts) is wonderful, and might very well be in the style he'd have used for LOTR, but it would be totally wrong for the trilogy.

Even though I'm still not convinced about Shore myself (I know too little of his work), choosing him at the very least shows that Jackson - or whoever approached Shore - actually cares for the score.

I look forward to his score for LoTR with much enthusiasm.

I didn't think so.

I had the chance to meet Mr. Shore (who is, by the way, as personable and articulate as he is talented) and the description of the composing process he outlined was very interesting... it's all film-specific; he comes up with some thematic or textural material first, something that sums up the film and builds the score around it.

If you have doubts about Mr. Shore's versatility, may I remind everybody that he was the musical director for Saturday Night Live for it's initial seasons? He had to go in all sorts of directions for that.

Marian, Dogma is pretty damn good, but The Cell is pure genius. Check out the interview with him in the month before last's Film Score Monthly in which he describes how the score got to sound that way.

I think you'll find it enlightening, to say the least!

Didn't even notice the interview in FSM, everytime one of the latest issues arrived, I had too much to do to read them properly. I'll dig it up.

Oh, and I've put Dogma and Cell on my birthday wish list (along with a couple of other CDs, though, sort of a pool from which people may choose my presents, so it's not sure that I will really get them).

It was the strangest sounding thing I've ever heard...sounded like he was playing on a synth with his feets while asleep or something

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Scott may be convinced but I'm not. Shore is certainly a great composer, but I'm still no quite conviced that he's the right composer for LOTR.

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The fact that it continues the current filmusic equation of mid-eastern religious sounds with Western based degradation takes it a notch down to the feeling we've heard this before.

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If you are referring to the former, I like how Shore mixes his idioms (as he did with free-form jazz in Naked Lunch); I think that the conceptual design of the music in The Cell makes a particularly innovative listen given the fact that the orchestra is doing almost the exact opposite of what it was designed to do.