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How'd you write music

you know you can write music for sitting in front of for piano and.

Your fingers were run across the case

and usually what happened assists they fall into certain patterns of my muscle memory.

So the way i riotous acted up in my room in the morning

and if i dunno what the Tunis.

I do love this i sit on my hands until i have an idea and i don't let them straight

to the keyboard because i know what's gonna happen

as is going to be muscle memory it just going to be.

The thing i did

last week or whatever

so

the bus impossible part is not to touch the kiva

because it's so tempting to count touched the keyboard and play a load of crap

and

and

you know they often you can play a load of crap and

people are really happy with it but at the end of the day.

And

it

that there has to be a sense of adventure in

it for me otherwise you know it gets boring

so there has to be at

a sense of the new and we've never tried this before and if it means

setting a piano on fire are you know

going to Africa and.

Going into

you know a township and brushing with and African choir that.

You know none of us speak the same language are.

Going to Slovakia and.

Meeting some extraordinary musicians

so be it.

I think writer's block.

Comes from forms of many different

places but i think one of them as

you don't know what you're doing yet you don't know what the story as you want to

tell all you feel you haven't done your research yet

i mean

that's one form of right to block the other one

assist you been working too much the of burned out

enjoying it any more

but

quite honestly

i never have that because.

I love what i do and i get excited by it

but.

I cant right and

until i know what what i'm writing about and that isn't.

That's a little harder to explain

because weirdly it's not

in the script and it's not on the screen

at some

weird

strange

version which is my version of the film

my little bit on the

left-hand side of

the called off the screen that something going on that nobody pays attention to and

it becomes really important to me

and that's the story i want to tell of that's the part i can contribute

so once i know what i can contribute.

I know what to write about

and up until that moment

i just sit there.

And.

You know total panic like a deer in front of the headlights.

Budgets

because this is what people are always want to know about it always think

the the the they always think that were either

completely rolling and it and it's just like

gazillion dollars.

Our.

What every film composer tells you that isn't enough money and of course

none of it is true.

At the end of the day.

I've done some of the most.

Fun things

on

movies were had no budget and.

You know did the most of the.

Boring things were had.

Cause of a bit too much money.

On

a budget but you know

the budget shouldn't affect the creative process the creative process takes.

A

takes place in your head and.

The

every day it becomes easier

to figure out out a way of creating things.

As long as the as long as you have ideas

ideas are not limited by budget yeah okay if your idea is that it needs

the biggest symphony orchestra

and that's the only way you can do it it's actually not a budget problem it's a

it's the

you are limited by your imagination because you can didn't figure out

that you can probably

save the same thing with for grade class.

Of for not so great players even

but

do.

So

unique you need to you know you

you need to have enough to make it sound good but

there's always enough to make it sound good and a funny way i mean budget should not

affect the creativity budget should know not

really affect the outcome at the same time

be belt go up to the

telling me you're going to add something to that movie that they won't get otherwise

and so certain don't be shy about it

you know

music is important music is worth something

you know it's not it's.

His a mistake people make just because we

play music and be like the process of playing

doesn't mean we're giving it away

and

and

unique

that needs to be an appropriate budget to do

to to.

Help fulfill division that is not just your vision but as the director sufficient so

to

the to have a you have you are working together on something

and.

Sometimes it's important to remind the director that

that isn't endless time and endless budget and endless

amounts of

recording sessions with very expensive August the us and we might have to resort to a

rubber band on a cardboard box to get this

one done

but

that one bucks to.

Rather than going for the most expensive score

that you could possibly do i was trying to

figure out to show something

where.

A big budget movie

could actually benefit from using

really modest instrumentation

and

just a bit of quirkiness and a bit of inventiveness.

Because.

Here's a lot of

what i noticed when people come in from music

school in the common in touch with us etc

somehow they have this idea because they learned

about the orchestra and they spend a lot of time

at university of music school or the academy or whatever learning about this

that the first movie that could unleash this hundred and two piece symphony orchestra

when really but it's getting to be

if you're going to unleash

some plugin on an iPad

and you've gotta go

bake a great score out of it because that is the budget that going to give you

and

that's all right

and

and

and what you have to do as you just

in yourself you just have to him imagine

how you're going to make that sound like that hundred and two piece

symphony orchestra

that you thought

music school or the academy had promised you.

He.

Stopped writing can look at the end of the day.

Ea cheap piano sound

it's all that

right

eighty eight keys

it's all there you know

and

and at the end of the day the job is to go and

and figure out the notes and figure out all these sinks

and then you can go and put all us

your

simultaneously all these colors that going on

i mean

i keep.

I keep being in two minds about this conversation i mean i picture looked

very much sort of on purpose.

For the purposes of our conversation

because.

It's the score anybody could do

you could do the score

one microphone.

You know on a laptop

you know.

So

and i'm not saying

i'm not saying that to show off i'm not saying

that in any other way other than to say.

I don't accept the fact

that you can't.

Write

create a great Hollywood blockbuster all but however

whatever the score as.

Depending on money or depending on resources etc

anybody's got access to something that they can go and make a great scholar.

You know as opposed to sitting here

me showing you.

The thing that

took a huge symphony orchestra to do

you know

and and and and a funny way

the the ma.

Money you have available the less

of a

achievement it becomes to make an impressive sound

i think the

i think.

You don't need all the west bank sounds you you don't need the.

Computer you don't need anything you can composing your head you can

us on the piano you can compose on anything.

Yeah.

Actually i think it might have been on Sherlock were.

Anne Marie Simpson was.

Sending me.

Violin tracks that she recalled it on iPhone

and he sounded great yeah it's like here's an idea of

and and that the there's a quality to it and you can either go

oh by god that's not technically correct or you can go wow that's really into trusting

so just

you know

if you just open yourself up to the

possibility that that could be really interesting and that we can manipulated.

It's not a problem it's a

huge advantage

to to work with a

the bare minimum of available

things you know what you know this is.

A bottom violin one base been timber alarm

and then you know yes and then i went crazy and i

went off to Slovakia and recorded all the tips this

but that's it.

Different thing you know it it's.

The the resources exist to go

and.

Do great things

about of our engineers who.

Think he worked on this

you know i certainly back to

quite a few other

movies i didn't

chop called stiefel epsom

and

and

he was here the other day and.

Just working with some amazing Austin i said oh this guy's a real genius and he said

yeah yeah yeah i worked with a lot of Jeannie

my life and he truly has

is that

they all have one thing in common.

They roll up their sleeves

they work until they drop they never go home and then percent are

presented as.

You know

oh

it was easy

you know you're supposed to make it sound easy

and Sherlock.

It's easy.

If you're if you listened to the score it's trivial as

trivia it's just like you know it's simple tunes in it

and and you can't.

Tell

that a lot of work went into it.

You know and i'm not saying that in a.

Oh dear me i didn't get any sleep

yeah

oh dear me i didn't get any sleep that's the

truth but i didn't get any sleep because.

It was fun it was great it was

you know we will we were at

passionately

and everybody.

Is added passionately

i mean those are the sort of the situations you want to be involved in

and.

It's your job as a composer to help to create us.