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- CommentTimeDec 14th 2023 edited
Hot on the heels of "The Grand Whittling Project", I've decided to launch into another, even more ambitious one -- building my collection of many composers and artists.
Currently, my iTunes collection lists 580 composer/artist folders. For some of them, I already have a nicely curated collection (or even complete ones in some cases), sampled by going through most, or all of their work that is available, and picking the things I like. But I still have many big names where my collection is very skimpy, for one reason or another. So I'm currently in the process of going through their work (what's available on YouTube and Spotify, anyway) and writing down the titles I find potential in and would like to own at some point. I also use Discogs and Soundtrackcollector to find out what's out there.
It's a challenging project, because some of these people have ENORMOUS back catalogues. Also, for certain Golden Age names, I prefer rerecordings (and preferably rerecordings that don't have mammoth durations of 2 and 3 hours).
I've explored and built in all my 30+ years as a film music fan, of course, but this is a more systematic approach.
Anyone else attempted something similar?I am extremely serious. -
- CommentTimeDec 14th 2023
I occasionally visit a composer's back catalogue when I come across a new composer - at least one I am unfamiliar with.
However, it's rare to find anything as good the titles I already have.
But, the advent of digital releases means that there's a lot of composers whose back catalogue is now readily accessible.The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorJoep
- CommentTimeDec 14th 2023
Yes, to a degree. It's a challenge.
The thing I love most is building my own temp score/music libraries based on a certain theme.
For example, I could create a kazoo folder containing;
-all scores including the kazoo
-all scores including the kazoo by one composer
-all scores that use the kazoo as a mournful tool
-all scores that use the kazoo combined with low-key strings in a certain type of film
-all scores that use an instrument that sounds like the kazoo and combine this with something else.
etc.
In the end, I have a wide view of such a theme, and can combine it with a lot of other things, revisit the folder later on and add even more. It's a different sort of challenge that is never really finished. -
- CommentTimeDec 15th 2023
Yikes! That's some project. Wouldn't it be easier to just create playlists of those "themes"?I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorJoep
- CommentTimeDec 15th 2023
When I only keep a best of playlist, there's room for some curiosities and a text file with everything I came up with initially.
I once dealt with a director who wanted fairy-tale like music. Generally, I could search endlessly, but given the project, and timetable, there was about 10 minutes of score that I immediately felt was the most appropriate. Still, without doing extensive research, I extended the folder with 43 hours and 12 seconds of cues very quickly, just in case. Imagine, these were only things I was already familiar with, let alone what selections would make the folder doing a thorough search.
In the end, this was the cue we used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7O46j8 … mp;index=3 -
- CommentTimeDec 15th 2023
Ah, I wasn't aware that you had "temp track" gigs. In that case, it makes sense to have folders like that, I suppose.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorJoep
- CommentTimeDec 15th 2023
Even without them, it makes a lot of sense. I do want the grand scope of a singular composer, but I feel you discover so much more by working by themes. -
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2023
I have done the same with playlists in my iTunes, as previously mentioned. For example, "The Religious Sound", "John Willliams' Religious Sound", "John Williams - Pop", that kind of stuff.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorJoep
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2024
And working by themes regardless of any specific composer.... I doubt you discover much more limiting yourself to a single composer you are so familiar with.... -
- CommentTimeJan 4th 2024 edited
Well, I have a "The Religious Sound", fan-made compilation too (an actual file compilation, not just a playlist), with various composers. I think a lot of the tracks on that were sent to me by Martijn once upon a time.
But it's not something that I go all up into, like you. Care to share any of your theme-based compilations here, at least the themes you've chosen to explore? (I assume the kazoo one was made in jest).I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorJoep
- CommentTimeJan 28th 2024
Currently, I am collecting short villian motifs. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK7V7dh25c -
- CommentTimeFeb 17th 2024 edited
I've come a way since the last time. Several composers I now feel properly curated. My digital collection is now nearing 3000 albums, which I know is peanuts compared to that of you two, Alan and Joep. But still several to go, especially some where it's not easy to find the soundtracks in question -- at least not to an affordable price (we're talking digital downloads here, CDs are out of the question due to insane shipping and whatnot). Donaggio, Sarde, Franke, Lai, Holdridge, Hartley, Robbins, Banos are some names with holes. But at least, I've sampled and listed the titles I need.
If you're curious about which titles I'm speaking of, here's a complete list of what I currently need. When there are question marks beneath the names, that means I've finished curating them (but might be open to future additions), OR that their catalogue is so vast, I haven't properly researched them yet (Cosma being a prime example):
Alan Williams
??
Alexandre Desplat
??
Alfred Newman
THE ROBE (Decca, 1959)
Angel Illarramendi
??
Angelo Badalamenti
A PIECE OF EDEN
Anne Dudley
THE MIRACLE MAKER
Annette Focks
??
Armand Amar
??
Arvo Pärt
THE VERY BEST OF (EMI)
Atli Örvarsson
??
Benjamin Wallfisch
??
Biosphere
??
Brian Eno
??
Brian Tyler
??
Bruce Broughton
??
Bruno Coulais
??
Carl Davis
??
Carlo Siliotto
??
Christopher Franke
PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
RAVEN
KLEMANIA
THE LONDON CONCERT
ENCHANTING NATURE
TRANSFORMATION OF MIND
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
NEW MUSIC FOR FILMS
TENCHI MUYO, IN LOVE
PERRY RHODAN - PAX TERRA
THE CALLING
Dario Marianelli
??
Dave Grusin
??
David Newman
??
Dimitri Tiomkin
??
Dominik Scherrer
??
Eduard Artemiev
URGA
m.m.
Eleni Karaindrou
??
Federico Jusid
??
Fernando Velazquez
GERNIKA
Francis Lai
LA BABY SITTER
VISIT TO A CHIEF'S SON
LEIFENSCHAFTLICHE BLÜMCHEN
WIDOW'S NEST
Frederic Talgorn
ROBOT JOX
Gabriel Yared
PARADISE WAR: THE STORY OF BRUNO MANSER
AZUR & ASMAR
CAMILLE CLAUDEL
George Duning
??
Gil Talmi
??
Graeme Revell
??
Ilya Santana
??
Jeff Beal
THE DOVEKEEPERS
TIBET - CRY OF THE SNOW LION
John Debney
DUMA
John Morris
THE SCARLET LETTER
Lalo Schifrin
MUSIC FROM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
Laurence Rosenthal
??
Lee Holdridge
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, PART 2
OLD GRINGO
UNLIKELY HEROES
EAST OF EDEN
HEIDI
Maud Geffray
??
Maurice Jarre
??
Max Steiner
??
Philip Glass
??
Philippe Rombi
FRANTZ
Philippe Sarde
FORT SAGANNE
HAREM
LA FILLE D'ARTAGNAN
LE BOSSU
HELLÉ
SISTER MARY EXPLAINS IT ALL
MANGECLOUS
L'OURS
DIS-MOI OUI
LUCIE AUBRAC
DEUX HOMMES DANS LA VILLE
ALLONS Z'ENFANTS
J'AI EPOUSE UNE OMBRE
Pino Donaggio
DON CAMILLO
L'ATTENZIONE
SQUILLO
ANTONIO: GUERRIERO DI DIO
HOTEL COLONIAL
MORTE IN VATICANO
JOE PETROSINO
L'UOMO CHE CAVALCAVA NEL BUIO
COSI FAN TUTTE
BRIAN DE PALMA compilation?
TRA DUE MONDI
Rachel Portman
GREY GARDENS
THE DUCHESS
Randy Newman
THE PAPER?
Richard Hartley
PRINCESS CARABOO
DON QUIXOTE
THE LION IN WINTER
STEALING BEAUTY
AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE
Richard Robbins
JEFFERSON IN PARIS
SURVIVING PICASSO
THE GOLDEN BOWL
A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES
Roque Banos
NO SOMOS HADIE
LAS 13 ROSAS
GOYA EN BURDEOS
SEGUNDA PIEL
Stefano Caprioli
LA FRECCIA NERA
CIME TEMPESTOSE
Steve Jablonsky
THE ISLAND
Stu Phillips
FOLLOW ME
Sunglasses Kid
??
Sylvester Levay
MEDICOPTER
COBRA
Taro Iwashiro
??
Toydrum
PREVENGE
Victor Young
SAMSON & DELILAH/THE QUIET MAN
Vladimir Cosma
??
Yann Latour
THREE MINUTES TO EIGHTI am extremely serious.
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