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I was perusing the iTunes catalog and came across few Gordon scores including Moby Dick and On The Beach. From the examples, I find Gordon to be quite excellent. I own his Salem's Lot Cd and even though the movie stank, his score was superb. I think I will buy his Moby Dick score. It sounds great.
I'm very happy to hear more from this composer as well as Alexandre Desplat, both of whom have solid compositional chops and are a bright spot on the horizon of where film scoring is headed.
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His DAYBREAKERS score, which should be out in October, is a breath of fresh air. An impressive orchestral work with (a lot of) choral and electronic elements.
MAO'S LAST DANCER is another project he will be providing the music for.
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You have to get his When Good Ghouls Go Bad and On the Beach, these two scores are incredible!!!
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Thanks for the suggestions gents. I did end up buying his Moby Dick and it's made an indelible impression on me to say the least. I also bought Indy 4 this week and between the two, Moby Dick is getting more air time at the moment. Gordon should be composing for more films as he does know his way around the orchestra and music in general.
Gifted fellow!
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He was largely also the uncredited conductor for the score on the "Moulin Rouge!" project. (Well, he is credited on the "Moulin Rouge! 2" album, but only if you look in the small print.)
I believe he also orchestrates his own music (unlike other composers who hand their music off to someone else to flesh out and complete.)
For someone who was self-taught, I'd say the man's abilities are pretty remarkable.
By self taught do you mean he did not study at a conservatory? The way he composes music, he must have at least had a look through a couple orchestration books.
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By self taught do you mean he did not study at a conservatory? The way he composes music, he must have at least had a look through a couple orchestration books.
Trying to recall some conversations I've had with him, I'm pretty sure he did not attend conservatory (or otherwise he was, in his soft-spoken manner, being coy about it.)
But he does have (as I suspect many (film) composers also do) entire shelves of classical music scores, and books on composition and orchestration technique, etc in his home studio, and we've had some interesting conversations about the film compositional techniques of Mr Williams, Mr Shore, etc. (For the curious, I first met Chris at a music festival where he was arranging some music for orchestra, and occasionally we run into each other at local concerts.)
More importantly, I think Chris Gordon has a keen ear for musical texture, an innate sense of musicality and the ability to write a good tune given half the chance - all of which, as it were, cannot be "taught".
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Whoah. I had no idea that one of my favorite films (On the Beach) was remade! I'll check out the music, but from what I just researched about the remade film itself...I'll pass. 
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Trying to recall some conversations I've had with him, I'm pretty sure he did not attend conservatory (or otherwise he was, in his soft-spoken manner, being coy about it.)
But he does have (as I suspect many (film) composers also do) entire shelves of classical music scores, and books on composition and orchestration technique, etc in his home studio, and we've had some interesting conversations about the film compositional techniques of Mr Williams, Mr Shore, etc. (For the curious, I first met Chris at a music festival where he was arranging some music for orchestra, and occasionally we run into each other at local concerts.)
More importantly, I think Chris Gordon has a keen ear for musical texture, an innate sense of musicality and the ability to write a good tune given half the chance - all of which, as it were, cannot be "taught".
You're right, he did not go to the Conservatorium. His background in music was as a chorist as a younger man, I believe. (Which goes some way to explain why he writes so well for voice.)
He did a short suite earlier this year for a Museum setpiece that is the best piece of 'scoring' I've heard this year. It's a shame the piece will probably not be heard more widely.
We keep crossing paths, Antipodean! JB-Hifi, and now Christopher Gordon's house! Will we ever occupy the same real estate simultaneously?
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I have had the chance to listen to Moby Dick all the way through and it's really quite spectacular. I haven't been blown away by a score in ages. This is the first since......um.......hmmm.......Signs?
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I hope Gordon gets a chance to record concert suites of MOBY DICK, as I'd like to hear the best parts of it grouped into a 25 minute presentation (like what he did with ON THE BEACH at Soncinemad).
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