Using sounds performed on a Synclavier, a combination synthesizer that could also record and change sound samples, Craig Safan’s 1985 all-electronic score matches the drama of a biohazard thriller in which sterile cleanliness is threatened by an organic agent that adapts, infects, and alters the health of its host…
Soundtrack reviews of Clyde Lawrence & Cody Fitzgerald’s The Rewrite (Lakeshore Records), Ronen Landa’s Mad as Hell (Bandcamp), Patrick Doyle’s Cinderella (Walt Disney Records), and Hans Zimmer / Steve Mazzaro / Andrew Hawczynski’s Chappie (Varese Sarabande).
According to the P.R. material, director Neill Blomkamp encouraged Hans Zimmer to embrace the synth gear of his early years, using an array of decades-old electronic instruments to create a score that’s warm and analogue heavy, yet clearly reflecting Zimmer’s present-day writing style that’s part minimalism, contemporary electronica, and industrial grimness…
Patrick Doyle’s score for Disney’s 2015 version of the classic fairy tale is a graceful, buoyant work distinguished by an incredible lightness, due in large part to an orchestral palette emphasizing light woodwinds, gentle string passages, and a rather romantic piano accompaniment…
Most of the cues in Ronen Landa’s score are brisk, kinetic pieces that make their strategic mark by capturing the audaciousness of the films’ central figure, Young Turks creator Cenk Uygur, as he navigates from YouTube sensation to MSNBC host, and it’s unsurprising Landa’s instrumentation features an up-tempo electric guitar, a very active electric bass…
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