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Topic: Awareness Check Are you familiar with the work of composer Jeremy Soule?!

Kosta
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There's a fundamental difference in the way Jeremy thinks versus the way good film composers think. Anybody that works consistently in film has a different sound from the next guy. Nobody here would mistake Elfman for Zimmer, Williams for Horner, Thomas Newman for Rachel Portman. Jeremy's problem is that he wants to be the next John Williams, not the first Jeremy Soule. This is why his stuff can sound like a cheap rip-off. And yes, I think it sounds generic too. But the real problem is Jeremy constantly promotes himself as something he's not. "I'm a film composer." No, you're not. You have to have actually scored a film to call yourself that. "I'm the next John Williams, Zimmer and Korngold!" No, sorry, you're not that either. And yes those are both statements paraphrased from Jeremy's press. Or "we're striving to be the next Media Ventures," a quote that was taken off his website the moment he met someone who actually works at MV.Jeremy might one day find a voice that's worth appyling to film, but that day is far in the future unless he starts writing more originally. If you do a little digging, you can even figure out which cue, which minute, which phrases he's ripped off from a film score. Those of you with encyclopedic knowledge of film music would have a field day exposing his "inspirations."
Sorry, but my opinion of this guy's talent and music is very low -- I prize originality too much to enjoy his work. And if he'd write tunes which don't meander all the time he'd be better off. It's like he starts arranging his tunes before he finishes them, gets carried away overarranging everything and forgets to work on the tune itself.
My thoughts anyway...
posted 12-28-2002 03:47 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
