Composers, everywhere!

I went to a sign­ing event yes­ter­day, with 15 or so big name com­posers. I talked with a lot of cool peo­ple: Michael Gi­acchino (Lost, Star Trek movie, Up), Stu Phillips (Bat­tlestar Galac­tica, Knight Rider), Ron Jones (Su­per­man, Star Trek: TNG, Fam­ily Guy), and John Mur­phy (28 Days Later), that I can think of. Prob­a­bly one or two I can't re­mem­ber right now (I've been awake for a long time). I'm ashamed to admit if there wasn't info dis­played for them, I would not have known who most of these guys were.

The whole rea­son I came, though, was to meet Bear Mc­Creary—com­poser of the mod­ern Bat­tlestar Galat­ica. It was a real treat to meet him, and as a sur­prise his beau­ti­ful wife to be Raya Yarbrough (who can be heard on some BSG tracks) was there too.

While I was there I picked up an ad­vance copy of the Caprica sound­track and got it signed. I'm re­ally en­joy­ing this album—it feels like BSG, yet at the same time some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent. Like the show, BSG's music was very char­ac­ter-dri­ven. Nearly every­one had their own theme, and what you'd hear on scene would ei­ther be a vari­ant of a theme or ac­tion music. Caprica's music feels much more scene-dri­ven. You can feel drama and emo­tion in them, often times pic­tur­ing a scene to go along with it. It is more sus­pense­ful, more sor­row­ful, more ad­ven­tur­ous.

It was also much softer than oth­ers. The TT Dy­namic Range Meter av­er­aged around 12, with some tracks going as high as 19—com­pare this to the new Green Day album which man­ages a measly 6. Re­play­Gain ac­tu­ally wanted to raise the vol­ume—some­thing I haven't seen in a long while! This is re­ally cool to lis­ten to on good head­phones :)

Now, on to the con­certs.

Terminator: TSCC and Caprica signed by Bear McCreary
Posted on June 01, 2009 in Battlestar Galactica, Bear McCreary, Caprica, Music, Terminator

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