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 Posted:   Oct 23, 2016 - 6:06 PM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

The composers I'm listening to now. Thought that was obvious.

And Z's post? Holy 'The sky is falling!', Batman.

 
 Posted:   Oct 23, 2016 - 6:35 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

What BillCarson said, plus what Paul MacLean said. smile

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 23, 2016 - 10:17 PM   
 By:   townerbarry   (Member)

John Williams
John Barry
Jerry Goldsmith



 
 
 Posted:   Oct 23, 2016 - 11:33 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

I, like Yavar, agree with Bill and Paul. Ten years from now, if alive, I will still listen to Golden and Silver Age composers.

Still hoping James Newton Howard keeps composing as well as other current composers like Powell.
I'm starting to tune in to Desplat, Ludwig Goransson, and Johan Johannsson. Really liking Fernando Velazquez. Finally, I'm excited to hear some creative new voices 10 years from now.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 5:37 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

I'm starting to tune in to Desplat, Ludwig Goransson, and Johan Johannsson. Really liking Fernando Velazquez. Finally, I'm excited to hear some creative new voices 10 years from now.


And THAT'S what this thread's about. I don't think Kev's suggesting that we'll suddenly stop enjoying our long-cherished composers and start thrashing about for someone else to fill the void. It's a creative way of interrogating ideas for the future, and anyone who said "Williams" or "Goldsmith" or whomever should beat themselves with a selfie stick and post the results on youtube. big grin Bill - you started it, even if you were taking the mickey... wink

A year ago - hell, even six months ago, I couldn't imagine myself so wrapped up in the music of a composer that I'd barely been aware of and whose music I'd never knowingly heard, but that's exactly what's happened with Mieczyslaw Weinberg. It doesn't mean that I like Shostakovich or Morricone any less.

Anyone who thinks it'll never happen to them should pay heed to my story...

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 6:50 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Thanks TG.
Yes indeed.
I wasn't suggesting anyone would NOT still be listening to the music of composers they have loved throughout the years. I'll take JW to my dying day.
Rather, who you think might be working regularly in 10 years time and who may be delivering the goods to your ears.
It's all speculation, I know, and impossible to predict.
When the likes of Cliff Eidelman and Bruce Broughton burst onto the scene, I never envisaged their work running out during their 'prime' years.
Who knows who will catch a 'lucky break' that will propel them to the forefront, work and projects wise, while (maybe) bigger talents come unstuck or fall by the wayside.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 7:33 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

But thats just the point. Alright its a fair cop guv i was taking the mickey - when did i ever not - but very little has pushed its way into my regulars, if thats the right word, in the last 20 years, maybe Desplat and Piovani have impressed me, but its very unlikely - imo - anyone is going break into that fortress.
You can slag me off for not being open but im just being realistic based on last 20-30 years.
I see films and notice the score sometimes and think Thats not bad, .but i cant remember the last time i said Wow.
So i dont expect it.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 7:39 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

But thats just the point. Alright its a fair cop guv i was taking the mickey - when did i ever not - but very little has pushed its way into my regulars, if thats the right word, in the last 20 years, maybe Desplat and Piovani have impressed me, but its very unlikely - imo - anyone is going break into that fortress.
You can slag me off for not being open but im just being realistic based on last 20-30 years.
I see films and notice the score sometimes and think Thats not bad, .but i cant remember the last time i said Wow.
So i dont expect it.




Bill, whatever happens, whatever's around the corner or is lurking in that unknown country we call the future, I can guarantee - GUARANTEE - that I won't be pushing anything into your regulars.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 8:43 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

I hope it will be more music composed by women!

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 8:43 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

And also some composed by Artificial Intelligence.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 8:48 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Yeah TG, my regulars are very picky about who they let join.
Such talented composers have earned their place.
Its not impossible to get a seat next to them but extremely unlikely.

And yes, i appreciate you were taking great delight in driving a rude truck into double entendre territory and turning right and ram-raiding the smut shop, but did you notice what i did there? I threw a boring bucket of cold water over your innuendo and battered it with boring seriourness, like a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped round it.

You will enjoy the new episode of the Walking Dead btw.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 9:12 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Once again TG and his double entendre made me laugh out loud. Kudos to you Bill for all of your irony in your straight forward response.

However, Bill, at least TG understood some of your initial responses, but as usual, some of you
U.Kers lapse into some kind of alien (probably not of this world) language. I mean who can translate, "it's a fair cop gov I was taking the mickey." Huh? Even my google translator didn't get it.wink

(P.S. I got the baseball bat reference. Last night's TWD was almost too much for me, too over the top. The villain reminded me of Bruce Dern in The Cowboys.)

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 9:48 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Agreed joan huey - that is as tortuous an hour ive spent in years. Squirming and brutal. Like watching Joe pesci say Funny how? For an hour. Clearly deliberately stressful and tense.

Its a fair cop, Guv is what cockney burglars used to say when policemen nabbed them holding a sack of stolen swag.
Geddit now? As in, you got me, ive been pinched fairly, what can i say, caught red handed?

Capice?

Glad you found the carson-tg show amusing. He is quite funny for a northerner. Personally i think humour should be allowed on the forum, but allardyce never has to lock a thread because most one liners get crushed with a swift tidal wave of seriousness.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 1:27 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Perhaps 10 years is a bit too soon, since a lot of the composers we consider veterans today, will still be working regularly then (who knows, perhaps even Williams will churn out the occasional work in his 90s -- his mother lived to almost 100, so he has the genes). Perhaps 20 years is a more fitting timeframe.

Be that as it may, I'll define -- for my own part -- composers who are in their 30s and 40s.

In that category, some composers on my radar (that primarily work in film) include:

Nicolas Errera
Laurent Perez Del Mar
Rob Simonsen
Rob
Matthew Margeson
Benjamin Wallfisch
Abel Korzeniowski
Panu Aaltio
Henrik Skram
Daniel Pemberton
Son Lux
Nuno Malo
Knut Avenstroup Haugen
Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Arnau Bataller
Federico Jusid
Barnaby Taylor
Joe Kraemer

...and that's just from picking some random names off of my iTunes collection.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 1:58 PM   
 By:   Laurent78   (Member)

Bill, I can understand that you think you'll stick to your current and perennial favourites. This said, as far as I'm concerned, there's at least one new name that I might well be listening to in ten years from now, a name that has also been mentioned by others in this thread. He's a fellow countryman of yours: Daniel Pemberton. I'm playing on Youtube for the 2d time in a row his score for DESPERATE ROMANTICS (2009) which earned him at the time a well-deserved Ivor Novello Award for best television soundtrack and I'm simply blown away by the freshness, the energy, the overall fun and enthusiasm of his music, the same way his score for MAN FROM UNCLE already impressed me a great deal last year. This guy is writing truly exciting stuff, which makes me anxious to explore a bit more his universe.

Regarding another name that's suggested rather often as well, Fernando Velasquez, I'm sorry but the magic doesn't happen at all in his case for me. Yet I've tried to play many excerpts from several of his scores but didn't hear anything striking or appealing to my ears so far. I simply don't like his orchestrations, and even his tunes do nothing to me. Purely a matter of taste of course...

Thor, thanks for mentioning Nicolas Errera, a musician I'm very fond of.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 3:20 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Yeah TG, my regulars are very picky about who they let join.
Such talented composers have earned their place.
Its not impossible to get a seat next to them but extremely unlikely.

And yes, i appreciate you were taking great delight in driving a rude truck into double entendre territory and turning right and ram-raiding the smut shop, but did you notice what i did there? I threw a boring bucket of cold water over your innuendo and battered it with boring seriourness, like a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped round it.

You will enjoy the new episode of the Walking Dead btw.



My compliments, Bill. That was the best dead bat since Sir Geoffrey Boycott retired.

 
 Posted:   Oct 24, 2016 - 3:30 PM   
 By:   FredGarvin   (Member)

Can't think of many. Thomas Newman is always good. Bear McCreary and Michael Giacchino are impressive, but I've never been compelled to buy their scores (Star Trek 2009 excluded...). Ironically, Zimmer has been one of the few to captivate me (love Inception, The Dark Knight, etc) in recent years. I like Trent Reznor's work with Fincher.

I'll probably stick with the classics of Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Elliot Goldenthal & John Williams until my dying days.

 
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