HUEY MORGAN ON JOHN CARPENTER | Filmmaking Insights | Watershed
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Date: 26/04/2016

HUEY MORGAN ON JOHN CARPENTER | Filmmaking Insights | Watershed
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How Film Can't Live without Music with Huey Morgan

In this exclusive event revered musician and DJ Huey Morgan  explored a selection of films using music as a focus and examined how some films just would not be complete without it. In this excerpt he talks about film director and composer John Carpenter.

If John Carpenter’s legendary status as a film director is indisputable, he has in recent years become cited as a major inspiration as a composer. Dark atmospheres, haunted effects and subtle drone textures have long been a staple of Carpenter’s musical oeuvre, and the magpie-like tendency of many modern electronic composers meant that they were always bound to turn to him as they looked to create their own sonic landscapes. His iconic film scores set the template for a decade’s worth of hard-boiled crime thrillers and horror chillers churned out by Hollywood and you only have to look at more recent examples like Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, or the throbbing synth menace of David Robert Mitchell's It Follows to see his continued influence on a new wave of filmmakers and composers.

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