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Orchestration and Instrumentation: Electronic What images do you have in your mind when you hear a story? Do you feel anything? Cold, hot, sad, angry or do you see scenes of the places, dominated by colours_ like a warm sunset, candle light glow etc.? Do you imagine sounds? Do you hear music; sometimes large orchestrated symphonic pieces to go with these feelings? When scoring for any project, the film composer, Edd Charmant usually goes through this process often unconsciously before any real music is composed. The themes from 'Ireland_ A Cultural Journey' were composed to represent the history of a 'people' by capturing and enhancing general feelings got from the visuals and the dialogue. The overall sensation was one of great sadness and struggle against raiders and invaders. There was also a sense of persistence and perseverance to hold onto their ways and identity wherever they went. From these feelings the main theme was born. The first music composed was the Famine theme. I sensed that this period has had an enormous impact on the Irish people. The theme's melody I decided then was going to be the starting point for the project's score. Rich slow string movements with a few wind instruments to add colour. This main melody was then used as a template for almost the entire score. Various ethnic sounds and instruments (xylophones, marimbas, sticks, wooden blocks and hide drums), were used for a lot of the score to represent the raw natural sounds that might have been dominant in their music. The themes have been rearranged into 1 minute to 3-minute pieces. 3 versions of each theme is given (with the exception of 'through the clouds' arrangements)_the full orchestrated piece and 2 edited samples. These edited sample tracks have the main instruments used in them listed as well. Track 1: Birth of Our Planet A short version of the main theme music to capture the sense of struggle, sadness, creativity and identity. Track 2: Humanity Influenced by the orchestrations, arrangements and the sense of mystery from Rachmaninov's composition 'Prince Rostislav, Symphonic Poem' and Gustav Holst's composition 'The Planets'. Track 3: Cultures World rhythms, instrument sounds and melodies drawn from over the world were arranged into this piece. Track 4: Ireland the Island The main theme is orchestrated for this 3 minutes theme. The images conveyed to me a 'bird in flight' sensation. The beginning sequence feeling almost like a dream, hence the 'magical and mystery like' introduction. Track 5: Mesolithic Ireland Neolithic period conjured images of large dark and forbidden forests, wild animals and frozen mountain passes. Also a deep respect of the environment. There must have been lots of surprising discoveries and fascinating sites, but life must have been pretty hard as well with very few or no luxuries at all. The music tried to capture most of these feelings. Track 6: Neolithic Ireland Like the Neolithic period before, there must have been lost of mystery in the lives of the people. Religious practices and their gods, the druids, the art form with symbolic decorative patterns. Interesting! back to top | next page |
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