Contents Biography Composition Listening Guide includes two songs from the motion picture Inception Old Souls Mombasa Biography Hans Zimmer ID: 755915
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Presentation of renowned composer Hans ZimmerSlide2
Contents
Biography
Composition
Listening Guide: includes two songs from the motion picture Inception
“Old Souls”
“Mombasa” Slide3
Biography: Hans ZimmerSlide4
The Early Days of Zimmer
Was born on
september
12
th
, 1957
Moved to London when he was fourteen to attend
Hurtwood House School.His father died when he was a child and that event helped him escape in to musicMusic then became his best friendSlide5
Beginning of his Career
He worked with many bands including, The
Buggles
’,
Krisma
, and
Helden
.He wrote jingles for Air-Edel Associates. This led him to partner with Stanley Myers
The Bangles”Slide6
….Beginning of his career continued
Zimmer and Myers focused
on traditional orchestra sound with electronic instruments and worked on motion pictures together
Stanley MyersSlide7
Start of his solo career
Zimmer’s first solo score was for the movie Terminal Exposure in 1987
He then was score producer for The Last Emperor 1988
His first mainstream success in Hollywood would come from composing the music to the movie Rain Man, which would go on to be nominated for four Academy AwardsSlide8
Success of Rain Man ignites Hans Zimmer
He would go on to compose the music for Academy Award nominees such as, The Lion King, Driving Miss Daisy, Gladiator and many more
All of which won Best Picture Award of their corresponding yearsSlide9
…Success of Rain Man ignited Zimmer continued
He would also compose the music to some of the biggest Blockbusters of our time
incuding
, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Dark KnightSlide10
Composition History: Mombasa and Old Souls
Both Mombasa and Old Souls come from the Motion Picture Inception.
While director Christopher Nolan was working on the picture he asked Zimmer to compose the music to itSlide11
Challenges
Unleashing the audiences imagination in the best way possible
Incorporating a guitar sound reminiscent of
Ennio
Morricone
Getting Christopher Nolan to let Johnny Marr help with the Score Slide12
Inspiration
Zimmer read
Godel
, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
It combined the idea of playfulness in mathematics and playfulness in musicSlide13
Listening Guide: Old Souls
The overall concept of the song is organic growth
Old Souls is a piece that starts off slowly, but as the seconds pass the dynamics start to build and incorporate more instruments
The building of the song is very gradual
It builds little by little from the first seconds of the song until about minute sixSlide14
….Old Souls continued
At that point the song picks up tempo and the building dynamics start to increase at a rapid
rate
The rapid rate continues with the listener anticipating a great climax
Then the song at about minute 7:30 cuts short and fades out
Leaving the listener without the anticipated climaxSlide15
Listening Guide: Mombasa
As like with Olds Souls, Mombasa’s concept is also organic growth
Mombasa starts out with a loud dynamic level
The tempo is quick and very fast paced
A continuous rhythmic repetition of four slow and two fast beats is set up from the beginning Slide16
……Mombasa continued
The song keeps up the same dynamics and rhythm pretty much throughout the whole piece
Throughout the whole song there is addition and subtraction of new instruments
It doesn’t build to a climax
It gets to about minute 4:40 and then fades to an endSlide17
Bibliography/References
Abclocal.go.com “Hans Zimmer Gets Star..” December 8, 2010 http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7832872
Allmovierepicas.com “Inception” March 9, 2011
http://www.allmoviereplicas.com/Inception-Movie.html
Allmusic.com
“Hans Zimmer” March 9, 2011
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hans-zimmer-p140996 Artistopia.com “Hans Zimmer” March 9, 2011
http://www.artistopia.com/hans-zimmer
Classicfm.co.uk “Composers V to Z” March 9, 2011
http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/composers/v-z/hans-zimmer/
Hubpages.com “Where symphony meets synthesizer” March 9, 2011
http://hubpages.com/hub/Hans-Zimmer-Where-Symphony-meets-Synthesizer
Smashinlists.com “10 Most Recognizable Film Scores” March 9, 2011
http://www.smashinglists.com/10-film-scores-we-all-recognize/
Vintageking.com “Film Composer” March 9, 2011
http://
www.vintageking.com/Hans-Zimmer