Music Composers
Another veteran composer from Hollywood! But yet not just another composer, his music has made people go crazy just like what his personality is !. Hans has scored some really vivid range of movies with different genre . He has a peculiar style of using heavy orchestral sound and some great synthesised sound layered on it ! His scoring patterns are very very different from the normal patterns which are used in the scores. That is why he is the Hans Zimmer with multiple hits and constantly being compared with the maestro John Williams.
Hans has always been a fan of technology. His father being an engineer and inventor and mother being musician,Hans started to take up piano lessons but it lasted only for two week as he always hated the discipline and the formal training lessons. He got kicked out from 8 schools.He always wanted to express the music which he had inside and never wanted to play on someone's else's tune.
Hans has always been a fan of technology. His father being an engineer and inventor and mother being musician,Hans started to take up piano lessons but it lasted only for two week as he always hated the discipline and the formal training lessons. He got kicked out from 8 schools.He always wanted to express the music which he had inside and never wanted to play on someone's else's tune.
His father being an engineer he also imbibed some of the qualities from him, he started to modify piano, which made his mother gasp horror but his father would think it was fantastic when I would attach chainsaws and stuff like that to the piano because he thought it was an evolution in technology he said in a interview. He proudly says that he is self taught musician, he joined a band and always felt that he had music in head and wanted to express it !
The start !
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| Hans won Academy award for Lion King |
Hans started his career by playing keyboards and synthesizers in 1970's with bands like Krakatoa then with the buggles in 1977 . He also featured in a video " video killed the radio star in the year 1979 . And there were series of bands with which Hans worked as a synthesizer player. While living in London he started writing jingle for Ad commercials gradually collaborating with fellow composers and working as a music producer. People say there's always a turning point in the life of an artist and so Hans career took off with the 1988 film Rain Man.Director Barry Lewinson was searching for someone to score the movie,and his wife heard the soundtrack of a drama A world Apart which Hans had composed the score for it . Barry was impressed by simmers work and collaborated with him for the score. The score had a dynamic range of synths with steel drums which was unusual for a road movie which had stereotyped sounds of guitars or bunch of strings. The uniqueness of the score brought his first academy nomination for best score in 1989. After the first film he was offered Driving miss Daisy. In 1992 film " The Power of one , Zimmer had travelled to Africa to record the choir and drums for score. Looking at this Walt Disney approached him for an animated film " The lion King " he was never interested in doing an animated film score but the father inside him wanted to show off in front of his daughter as a result he agreed! This changed his life as he won numerous awards for his work, including an Academy award for a Golden globe and two Grammy's.
He has tried to create different sounds for different movies yet keeping the Zimmer feel and being very accurate to the characters sketch ! His one of the most notable work is considered as Gladiator which released in 2002. Every aspiring composer should once watch the movie and listen to the score ! His some notable work were Da Vinci code , Pirates of Carrabean three instalments, 12 years of slave , Hannibal , Angels vs Demons, Sherlock Holmes and many more !!
Just like I mentioned about the duo John Williams and Steven Spielberg in the earlier blog,Hans some of the finest work is from the films of Christopher Nolan ! Just like Spielberg's great taste in music Nolan is also very particular with the sound in his films . Hans first collaborated with Nolan in Batman triology , Batman Begins, Dark Knight , Dark Knight Rises . It is considered as one of the best scores of Batman movies . Especially the Jokers theme and the main theme!
Further Working together on films like Inception, Interstellar and the latest Dunkirk .
He is great at creating shepherd tones which are the series of notes which goes on repeating to create tension.The horns used in inception was highly acknowledged!
In interstellar he used 5 notes combination to create an emotional yet large sci-fi fiction sound. To create cosmic sound he used church organs to create a dynamic sound Which actually gives you the feeling as if you're in space ! One of the best score of Hans Zimmer
Recent collaboration for the film Dunkirk got him another nomination for best score ! The ticks of the clock was used throughout to create tension and suspense and engage the audience . Whenever this duo comes together there's a wide range of experiments done to elevate yet having a firm logic behind it. That is why he is called as maestro legend and a great artist.
Zimmer & Nolan !
Hans and Nolan working on Interstellar
Just like I mentioned about the duo John Williams and Steven Spielberg in the earlier blog,Hans some of the finest work is from the films of Christopher Nolan ! Just like Spielberg's great taste in music Nolan is also very particular with the sound in his films . Hans first collaborated with Nolan in Batman triology , Batman Begins, Dark Knight , Dark Knight Rises . It is considered as one of the best scores of Batman movies . Especially the Jokers theme and the main theme!
Further Working together on films like Inception, Interstellar and the latest Dunkirk .
He is great at creating shepherd tones which are the series of notes which goes on repeating to create tension.The horns used in inception was highly acknowledged!
In interstellar he used 5 notes combination to create an emotional yet large sci-fi fiction sound. To create cosmic sound he used church organs to create a dynamic sound Which actually gives you the feeling as if you're in space ! One of the best score of Hans Zimmer
Recent collaboration for the film Dunkirk got him another nomination for best score ! The ticks of the clock was used throughout to create tension and suspense and engage the audience . Whenever this duo comes together there's a wide range of experiments done to elevate yet having a firm logic behind it. That is why he is called as maestro legend and a great artist.
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