Danny Elfman Talks About His Career
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heisenberg
having uncertain feelings
This is really good. Thanks for posting!
I'll second that - great watch, thanks. I have a recollection that when he was just getting started there were these articles that came out saying "he doesn't really write the music, he just comes up with a couple of basic themes and passes it onto his assistant to complete it." So much ill will and people thinking he couldn't do it... it would be depressing for most, but he embraced it.
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robgb
Inspiration is for amateurs
I'm pretty sure those stories came from people who believed that a guy who could barely read music notation couldn't possibly write complex orchestral music. It's a fairly common belief, unfortunately. Even today. And is, of course, silly.
Otonal
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That was great.
Was fortunate to get to see Oingo Boingo play two back-to-back shows back in the day. It was clear then that he was going to do interesting things in the future.
Was an impressively large touring group too I'm recalling, featuring the regular band members, some brass players, and they were also touring around with an African balafon that they used in the sets.
Along with the rest of their scores, have always really loved his unique score and microtonal theme for A Simple Plan (1998). Both the score and the film have been able to endure repeated listenings and viewings down through the years.
Some potentially interesting microtonal lore, is that he was briefly house-mates with Erv Wilson in the early days, so he was definitely exposed to working in intonation systems outside of 12 at an early stage.
Was fortunate to get to see Oingo Boingo play two back-to-back shows back in the day. It was clear then that he was going to do interesting things in the future.
Was an impressively large touring group too I'm recalling, featuring the regular band members, some brass players, and they were also touring around with an African balafon that they used in the sets.
Along with the rest of their scores, have always really loved his unique score and microtonal theme for A Simple Plan (1998). Both the score and the film have been able to endure repeated listenings and viewings down through the years.
Some potentially interesting microtonal lore, is that he was briefly house-mates with Erv Wilson in the early days, so he was definitely exposed to working in intonation systems outside of 12 at an early stage.
I thought I would update this thread with a video I hadn't seen until yesterday - it's from the "what's in my bag" series where musicians talk about music that influenced them. Once again this is a tremendously insightful video wherein he talks about all the musical influences he has had. It's also interesting that while he was perceived by many as coming from a pop band background, his interests were far from that, but when he starts to rhyme off bands he was into I just went...yup...oingo boingo!
Worth a watch.
Worth a watch.
VannKraken
In [music] therapy
Have to say that some of the best live concerts I ever attended were Oingo Boingo Halloween shows. Danny was an amazing front man and watching him transform into such a notable film composer has been wild!
