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  • #37909
    Ryan Keaveney
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    … PLANET OF THE APES. That’d be Jamie Christopherson’s score for the vidgame LOST PLANET.

    http://elfman.filmmusic.com/media/soundslike/LP_Akrid_Fight.mp3

    Ryan

    #58223
    Spider-Fan
    Participant

    Ha, I was waiting and waiting to hear the blasting horns kick in, a la “The Hunt.”

    #58228
    Knight
    Participant

    Meh, doesn’t really sound like POTA to me (maybe I need to listen to that score more). POTA made me want to get up and hit something, this one just sounded like a bunch of percussion being hammered over and over and over…

    Did use some articulations and effects that Elfman used throughout POTA though.

    Knight (Why the hell does everyone use convolution reverb nowdays? It sounds like crap)

    #58235
    Danny Burton
    Participant

    Man, if there’s ever a list of scores to drive a car to, POTA should be at the very top of the list. I mean, try it right now.

    #58237
    D-Bo
    Participant

    Whoever did the music for the ‘Red Steel’ game for the Wii used that very distinctive “wooden” percussion sound from PotA, the one that’s usually used in that ascending three-note motif.

    #58238
    Knight
    Participant

    You mean the strings playing Col Legno? Can’t really say that anyone rips off anyone for using that technique, as it’s been in use for well over a hundred years. You just don’t hear it very often (mainly because string players complain because it can mess up the finish of their bows).

    #58246
    D-Bo
    Participant

    No, that’s not what I meant. If you have the Planet of the Apes soundtrack album, a good example of what I’m talking about would be about 0:48 into Ape Suite #1. I don’t think that’s col legno strings.

    #58247
    Edward Bloom
    Participant

    That’s col legno with some other percussion. Like Knight said, it’s a pretty common technique nowadays.

    #58248
    D-Bo
    Participant

    Are you serious? I know col legno is used a lot; I do listen to lots of film scores, but except for this one game that I was talking about, I’d never heard this particular sound that seemed fairly distinctive and unique to PotA used anywhere else. Anyone know what other sounds are used in conjunction with col legno to get that effect?

    #58249
    Ryan Keaveney
    Keymaster

    I always thought that was a sample too, D-Bo. What do we know?

    Ryan

    #58252
    Edward Bloom
    Participant

    I think that Marco Beltrami uses col legno a lot…

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