Saturday, March 28, 2009
Some of Bear McCreary's Galactica music
Those of you who have read my posts on Battlestar Galactice might have picked up on the fact that I mentioned film composer Bear McCreary's blog and his music quite a bit. He's the young guy who scored the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series. You may or may not have been impressed by what you heard on the TV show but take a listen to what's on youtube:
The youtube versions sound better to me.
Hear that electric violin? For me that was the sound I first started responding to. If I can remember Bear's blog on that correctly, that violinist is Paul Cartwright. Bear must have used some electronic trick to soften out the tone, in concert those violins wind up sounding like electric guitars or they're too harsh.
It was the first sound I tried to imitate.
These are some of my favorite, roughly in the order of how much I like them.
Does anybody think that without Bear's music setting the tone that Battlestar Galactica would have become the breakout hit it became? That's not a rhetorical question. I wonder about that, what influence music has on these shows. Would I have ever thought that Forbidden Planet or The Day the Earth Stood Still were sci-fi classics if not for Bernard Herrmann?
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I agree that McCreary's scores really took the series to the next level. A good soundtrack can really make or break something like this. I see it as similar to the Halo series, the music there really made it stand out.
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