Showing posts with label composer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label composer. Show all posts

Friday, January 7, 2011

Morricone on Your Telephonee

It's quite a shift from composing some of the greatest film soundtracks of our time, to creating ringtones for LG, but that's exactly what legendary composer Ennio Morricone is doing. The 82-year-old composer for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West and Cinema Paradiso has signed a deal with LG to create ringtones for their upcoming smart phones. Read more here.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Friday the 13th: The Origin of The Sound

"There was one scene where there was a close-up of Jason’s mother’s mouth going,Kill her mommy,’ and then all at once it switched to little Jason’s voice saying, Kill her, mommy.’ That’s the thing that gave me the idea. Most people think I’m going,Chh, chh, chh,’ but I’m saying the letter k and the letter m -kifor killand mafor ‘mommy,’ see? Then I used some various voice processing. That’s actually me making that sound into a microphone."

- Harry Manfredini, composer