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Gunslinger Orchestral score

eta6eta6
edited July 2004 in Dark Tower
John Flynn has written a totally Orchestral “mock movie score” for The Gunslinger. It’s due for completion September but he's posted clips at his site.




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  • eta6eta6
    Could you post a link to the site, or the page with clips? Thanks Bev.
  • CRinVACRinVA
    just click on his site in Bev's post - the link is there! :D
  • eta6eta6
    Good lord, my color blindness strikes again. Thanks!
  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Here's a copy of his latest email:



    Hey folks,



    Just wrote to let you know that

    The final product of the DARK TOWER

    CD Soundtrack is still set for September

    1st of this year. I took a vacation but I'm back

    and everything's still on a viable course.



    I've got good news too. I mapped

    my progress of this whole thing out on a calendar and

    figured, with my usual rate of a cue every

    two days or so, I can get this done by early next

    month or so. That will leave over two weeks for

    any possible rewrites or whatever's left.



    Later next month I'll make a final mix and press some

    Free Review promos to send out. The FREE review promos apply to

    those who are willing to review the final product on their site.

    The regular promo will only cost maybe a little under ten dollars,

    including a couple dollars for shipping and handling. Now, I'm still

    shopping around for a label (I'm close on this) so this should be cheap

    at the moment. Record executives have a tendency to follow the market

    when

    pushing

    their merchandise on the public. It's my opinion that CDs cost too much

    now anyway so I think a little under ten dollars is pretty good.



    :)



    I've recently put together a temp mix to see what's at my disposal

    with the soundtrack in it's current incarnation (where I'm standing at

    the

    moment-so to speak).

    I've got over an hour or music but... I've got to tell you that I was a

    little taken aback when

    I first listened to everything chronologically. The music did something

    that

    I didn't originally intend

    it to do. This can be interpreted as good news or bad news depending on

    whoever's perspective is

    taken more seriously (I think it's good)... but...



    ...the score I've written is a tad darker than I originally planned it

    would

    be.

    The Man in Black's music, in particular, which I expected would surface

    only

    a couple

    times throughout (enough to draw enough attention to it's self and be

    instantly recognizable),

    has ended up consuming a large portion of the score's tone and style. I

    mean,

    that's not really a complaint AT ALL, something being a tad too "dark"

    or

    "brooding". I love dark

    music. It was more of a subconscious thing I did because while I was

    re-reading the revised

    Edition of The Gunslinger I was writing each cue simultaneously. While

    re-reading I felt

    that the man in black was hanging over the whole first book like a

    thundercloud or something.

    All I really did was put that feeling down into each other track.



    Undoubtedly, the first book is, in terms of ambiguity, stylization and

    the

    gunslinger's "heartwarming"

    compassion towards other people, the darkest chapter in the whole Tower

    saga. Roland pretty much

    damns himself by the end of the first book and it takes books 2 through

    7 to

    redeem him. If I ever get

    to doing the sequels (I want to see how this first score does first )

    the

    growing lighter tones of the sequels

    will come across ten-fold.



    But Relax.

    The music of this CD is not horror movie dark. It's not Freddy Krueger

    music. It's not full-blown "Dark".

    There are softer parts as well. The over-all style is at most closer to

    Bernard Herrmann's or

    Danny Elfman's way of doing things, with a musical timbre that has a

    more

    sneering or growling

    sensibility to it. It's not really close to any contemporary music out

    there

    now (if you can understand

    what I mean by "growling" and "sneering") so I don't know if I can make

    any

    more comparisons.

    I was listening to a lot of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Herrmann, Korngold,

    Elfman and Morricone. Maybe

    That will give you an idea.



    Regardless of anything though,

    The CD's still set for September completion and that's when it will be

    Done. A new update on the promo site is going to also happen next

    month with much longer clips of all the tracks on the CD to give you a

    better opinion of the quality and quantity.



    Thanks.

    Flynn.



    http://flynn.ext13.com



    Tell your friends!
  • sunny99sunny99
    Undoubtedly, the first book is, in terms of ambiguity, stylization and

    the

    gunslinger's "heartwarming"

    compassion towards other people, the darkest chapter in the whole Tower

    saga. Roland pretty much

    darns himself by the end of the first book and it takes books 2 through

    7 to

    redeem him. If I ever get

    to doing the sequels (I want to see how this first score does first )

    the

    growing lighter tones of the sequels

    will come across ten-fold.


    Good point there.
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