The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world.
They are each legitimate art forms. With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun. Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting. You come from a conversation with the director, and you're all enthusiastic, because it's all new possibilities, opportunities, great ideas, etc.
And then you get into this room, and you sit in front of this [computer], and it's all gone and you just go "oh my god, I have no idea what to do". But you need the courage of starting somewhere.
I write film music. I don't do brain surgery. I don't cure cancer. I just write a little bit of film music. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in. And I better do it right. I better do it well. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Create a list ». Music Composers. Best Composers. DUNE adaptation s decade. The Sound Of Music.
See all related lists ». Share this page:. Clear your history. Hans Joachim Zimmer Brigitte Zimmer. One more award-winning work was that on the film called The Last Emperor , for which Zimmer contributed his own tracks. Around the same time, he also worked on an English television series called Going for Gold , a long-lasting venture Zimmer worked on with Sandy Sandy Mclelland.
Just like a host of movies that would follow this top-charting film, Zimmer used his own arrangements of synthesizers and samplers for the score. Recently, he contributed music to the Batman trilogy, one set of films that have gained large scale acclaim in the film industry today.
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Trivia: The Last Samurai marked his th score. Trademark: Frequent use of the 'Shepard Tone' to raise tension. This is an auditory illusion of which provides the sense of a note constantly rising in pitch. The demand for his artful blend of electronic and orchestral textures only increased in the decades to come.
He also scored director Denis Villeneuve 's adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel Dune. Hans Florian Zimmer was born in Frankfurt on September 12, Largely self-taught, he played piano as a child.
After relocating to London as a teen, he wrote advertising jingles for music production company Air-Edel Associates. The early '80s also included stints with synth pop band Heldon with Ultravox drummer Warren Cann and the Italian avant-garde group Krisma as well as further production work. He then formed a partnership with composer Stanley Myers , and together they founded the London-based Lillie Yard recording studio.
Zimmer and Myers ' work during this period included material for pictures including Moonlighting, Insignificance, and the acclaimed My Beautiful Laundrette, which saw them credited as Ludus Tonalis in honor of the Paul Hindemith piece.
Zimmer scored his biggest commercial success to that point in with his work on Disney's The Lion King. The film's soundtrack garnered numerous awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and two Grammys.
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