Favorite aspects - Composer Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
One of my favorite experiences as a composer is writing music for film. I've written music for concert hall, theater, pageants, record albums, and I love all of that, but film composition is unique. I mean it's, can you imagine just trying to create a musical sound with instruments that can happen, that make that happen. It's exciting. It's almost like playing a video game, I guess, trying to get to the end. I just love working on that concept of enhancing the film with music. Music doesn't necessarily stand as a concert hall piece, but it fits the picture and the mood and the action so well, if you're good.
Video 2 Transcript
My favorite aspect about being a composer is the creative process. I love to create, I need to create. Whether I'm creating out in the garden or whether I am creating musically or whether I'm drawing or taking photos or writing poetry or coming out with motivation self-help books, I need to create. And as a composer, that's exactly what you do. You are actually creating and coming up with ideas and sounds and chord progressions and deciding which instruments you'd like to use and how you'd like to combine those instruments. You're trying to paint a picture, not visually, but a picture that they can hear with their ears. And that is what is so life-changing. It's transformative because you can create every day. I love it.
Video 3 Transcript
My favorite aspects of songwriting are the responses I get from people, emails and messages that say, you know, one of your songs helped me through a hard time, it touched me, it inspired me, my children sing your songs, things like that. I have made friends really all over the place and friends from all different religions and all different walks of life, and to me that is absolutely my favorite aspect of songwriting.
Video 4 Transcript
I think my favorite aspect of being a composer, honestly, is that I get to be really, really musical and come up with ideas and come up with concepts and create something original from scratch. But then once it's brought out into the world, and I perhaps make the original recording, I get to watch it sort of take flight around the world and just kind of, you know, like get performed by different people everywhere and take on a life of its own. And that's really exciting. And I find it really, really gratifying as well. And for someone like me who has, I guess, you know, maybe just a touch of stage fright, I mean, it's a great way to be musical without actually dealing with the anxiety of going on stage and performing. I mean, that, you know, for that's not for everyone. It takes a certain amount of courage to, to be a soloist or a performing musician all the time. So I love being a composer.
