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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9735891" data-attributes="member: 19675">An online friend of mine was asked to provide music for a theater’s Halloween airing of the great silent horror movie, Nosferatu.*Initially, he was puzzled- his 2 piece band is solidly in the electronica category, and mostly improvisational at that- and didn’t think they could do a good version of the original music.  But what the theater owner wanted wasn’t the music that was played in theaters all those decades ago, but rather, something new.  Something in their style.  So they took the gig.Almost immediately, he had second thoughts, because he didn’t think improvised music would work well.  And he was struggling to compose something that would.So I sent him this video of Jimmy Smith’s jazz deconstruction of Prokofiev’s Peter and The Wolf:[MEDIA=youtube]K1OWN-l23ZE[/MEDIA]I told him to simply compose a core musical theme for the major characters, and play them when they’re onscreen, with sime of their improvisations thrown in for good measure.  And that was the spark!He and his bandmate took that inspiration and ran with it.  They wrote identifiably distinctive themes for each major character.  But instead of simply playing them straight up, they changed them over time.  As the peril onscreen grew, the music became darker.  Major keys became minor keys.  Sour notes were substituted for sweet.  Tempos became irregular.  The downward spiral of the film was echoed in the entropy of the music.It was so well-received, they’ve been asked about doing future play-alongs in the future!* since I live in a different state, I was unable to attend, and sadly, the performance wasn’t recorded.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷🏾‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fe-2642.png" title="Man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone    :man_shrugging_tone4:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone4:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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