Danny Elfman on Tascam Website

[DannyBiker]

As I was searching for drivers for my Tascam soundcard, I found this on the website :

http://www.tascam.com/article;34,2036,488.html

And there’s also this :

http://www.tascam.com/article;34,2036,703.html

[gaba]

Thanks very much – interesting!

[Danny Burton]

I guess this answers that question that’s been asked many times:

As you’re composing, are you playing it right into the computer or writing it out?
No, I stopped writing it out about 12 years ago. At that point in my life, a conductor I was working with said, ‘You know, you’re killing yourself because you’re doing everything twice.’ Every part of every instrument was going into my performance that the director was hearing, and then once it was approved I would write it all out. And that would take another eight hours. There was a point where I was working 16 hours a day, every day. It was crazy. So, when I got to the realization that all I was doing is transcribing my performance onto paper, not adding anything, I decided to try MIDI notation. And the 16 hours a day went down to 10 every day. And I can even take 1/2 a day off on Sunday now. (Laughs) That was another life-changing bit of technology.

Are there any composers working today other than Williams and maybe Howard Shore that write their music down on paper?

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