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I think this a great video, and went much more in depth than I expected.
Not only did they go into the sounds of the score, but also the whys of it. The creative provess. I had never thought of why the film starts with the chant, but the explanation makes so much sense.
It was great to see people behind the instruments as well, they were really great to listen to. They’re people that usually work with Hans Zimmer so it was good to see them talk about their craft. How they made the sounds that defined the score.
So orchestra – no, because why would they have an orchestra in outer space?!
But an armenian Duduk? Why not!
Hans Zimmer, continuing his streak of awesomeness
Awesome vid. Thanks for posting.
I love Hans’ rock star mentality when it comes to his work. Always going for something unconventional, doing things the ‘wrong’ way, pushing all his musicians to try new things and break the rules.
Hans Zimmer seems like an exceptional cool guy
He paid a bunch of people to write it.
I read a whole big thread on here the other day about how Zimmer is a hack because he doesn’t do any of his own work anymore he just has a big farm of people he assigns the work to and then he gets his name in the credits. I don’t know much about it but man they were roasting the fuck out of him in those comments and they seemed pretty knowledgeable about it.
I know how he wrote it. He got some woman to vocalize some random sounds. And repeat.
“Wherever you have a goat and you have a piece of wood… All I want to say is the goat better watch out because it’s probably going to end up being a bagpipe.” — Hans Zimmer
A lot of the “bagpipe” sounds were not even created with bagpipes.
Also, TIL that this exists:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_flute
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_contrabass_flute
Saw him in concert a ways back. Driving miss daisy, you’re so cool, thin red line, potc, gladiator with Lisa Gerard, Circle of Life — awesome.
Anything sci fi or superhero — ffs dude your bass drone is physically painful please stop please
Guess which of the two Dune falls under. Damn near ruined the movie for us. Arrakis is huge and foreboding and, I imagine, eerily silent more often than not. That movie desperately needed some silence to let the awesome vastness of the sands overwhelm us.
Edit: it seems to me like there are two Hans Zimmers when I consider his catalog but the truth of course is simpler: one Hans Zimmer and a bunch of people for whom he takes credit, eg Klaus Bedelt for POTC. I am not decrying this in and of itself: Kanno Yoko is insanely talented and even she has a stable of underlings whose names go unmentioned, as did Uematsu Nobuo. Second unit directors do a lot of heavy lifting. And so on. Nature of the business I suppose. We like to have a name as a brand, and Zimmer is definitely that.
Love Hans for certain movies, Dune wasn’t one of them though. I think they should have gone much more strange like Trent Reznor
Another masterpiece from Hans Zimmer! Thank god for him 😉
Hans Zimmer on making this video, “there’s no way I’m gonna give Jonny Greenwood (two film nomination) a chance to win the oscar”
The man needs to get back to actually writing music with a melody. Droning seems to be his thing and it’s not interesting.
Oof. This was a shit score in an otherwise good movie. Zimmer is out of touch