No Dumb Questions

No Dumb Questions

We're Comparing Our Favorite Instrumental Music

Added 2023-09-30 18:49:33 +0000 UTC

Everyone has a few pieces of music that mean something to them. We're comparing those together and seeing where it takes us.

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Coming back to this episode now that I'm a patron (yay!) to say that my all time favorite piece of music is "Test Drive" from How to Train Your Dragon. It makes me cry every time. https://youtu.be/IpPIK4T068s?si=-Quxz7x7xpCVcLAU

2024-01-31 18:49:14 +0000 UTC

Wow, this is a subject that really, really gets me going. My top genre to listen to is soundtrack (I feel like Spotify calls it "soundcore"?) and I have thought a lot about the composition and structure of the music. I listened to someone explaining on a Vimeo video once why it is that so many soundtracks these days sound the same as each other. He described a situation (I forget, was it called "temp" music?) that the director has a pre-preview cut put together with some soundtrack music recycled from already-released movies for the composer to listen to, in order to catch the vibe of what the director is going for. Then, the composer is supposed to go write original music that matches that vibe. The end result is that the composer's creative seed is existing soundtrack music, and thus a lot of soundtracks sound the same as each other. I also listened to someone explaining how Hans Zimmer has created a soundtrack-composer factory. He is bringing in huge contracts for his studio, getting his students to write most of the music, throwing on a bit of theme and one song, and then publishing it as "Soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer (and Jacob Shea)" but whoever's name is listed second is actually the one who did most of the work. Hans Zimmer is an unbelievable musical genius, but if this part about it is true, it explains how he's been able to get his name onto so many movie soundtracks. I would say that soundtrack music of the 70's - 90's was based around composing a melody, and then adapting it with instrumentation and composition to fit the scene. Soundtrack music of the last 20 years has been much more around picking a chord progression or an instrumentation, and then optionally composing a melody over top. Oh wow, you really touched a topic that I'm interested in!!! I love when you guys share personal things like this with each other, because I enjoy hearing your relational styles as you examine it together. Thanks for sharing this conversation with me!

2023-10-15 00:57:22 +0000 UTC

Missing Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project That one gets my competitive juices going :)

2023-10-12 21:10:11 +0000 UTC

I love this episode. There's very few episodes that prompt me to comment on Patreon but this one had me wanting to make so many comments because it made me feel so much. Thank you for sharing the beauty of instrumental music. I do wonder how the theme songs from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Chariots of Fire didn't make this episode. Another song I would have put forward is any number of songs from Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk. In my opinion it's an epic album of orchestral mixed with techno that conjures emotions in a unique way.

2023-10-04 13:46:42 +0000 UTC

The entire Interstellar soundtrack definitely takes you through all kinds of different feelings and places, and was absolutely a perfect companion to the story of the movie.

2023-10-02 23:32:29 +0000 UTC

Going for just one, I can't praise Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel (mirror in mirror) strongly enough. We use it for our church's Ash Wednesday service and play it live during communion. It's hauntingly beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6Mzvh3XCc

2023-10-02 21:43:44 +0000 UTC

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