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MATT CANNON
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FILMS SCORED
Meeting Date: December 10 2022.
Meeting Site: Bergen Highlands United Methodist Church. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Attendance: 25 + 5.
Meeting Program: Talk, Q & A with Film Score Composer / Musician.
Notes:
Newsletter Account:
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Notes for Newsletter Account:
Jerri Angermueller.............................Strawberry Walnut Bread / Cream Cheese
Kathy Cannarozzi..............................Chocolate Chip Cookies
Jenny Corimamya..............................Vegetable Tray
Philip De Parto...................................Milk / Coffee / Tea / Blondies
David Fischer.....................................Chocolate Covered Donuts / Twizzlers
Charles Garofalo................................Ice Cream
Roy Greenberg...................................Brewed Tea / Honey Roasted Peanuts
David Hoffman....................................Gengerbread Man Cookies
Stephen Herbst...................................Chocolate Babka Cake
Steven Herr.........................................Chocolate Cake
Roberto Lopez....................................Custard Cups
Angela Mallon....................................Mini Cupcakes / Cookie Tray
Judy Olog...........................................??????
Randie O'Neil......................................Cookies
Milind Padki.........................................Cheese Cake
Greg Roman........................................Apple Pie
Moni Simon.........................................Chocolate Cake
Larry Soria..........................................Fruit Tray
Marsha Shapiro..................................Chocolate Babka Cake (w/Stephen Herbst)
Claire Sterling.....................................Homemade Iced Spice Cookies
Drew Sterling......................................Homemade Iced Spice Cookies
John Upton.........................................Cinnamon Rolls
Romy Vreeland...................................Chocolate Cake
Pamela Webber..................................Cut Fruit / Mini Fruitcakes / Bark / Mini Shortbread Cakes
Notes on Talk:
Started with 18 minute video of clips of movies he's written music for.
Primarily works with a snythesizer
Goes for style directors ask for
Inspired by Killing Spree (band) music
Process for score - watch film 3 - 7 times / looks for scenes needing cues / talks with director
Cues become themes of longer pieces
Then writes the score
Usually takes 2 - 3 months to write the score
Played guitar for bad bands in high school
Fan of 90s bands
Liked band Fear Factory - particularly concept album Obsolete - tight and technicolor album
Inspired him to write music in a cinematic way
He has done 4 albums
Was given two weeks of guitar lessons as a teen, self-taught from there on
Can't read music
Created a persona, Time Ghost, only to be hit with a cease-and-desist because someone else was doing it
Uses mostly software which emulates different instruments
His wife is a horror fan. They met through a dating app and bonded over a love of John Carpenter's The Thing. They have a 1-year-old.
Day job is a mailman
I am a slave to the director
Has used a mini-moog
Talked about electronic tonalities of Forbidden Planet
Liked - Frankenhooker
Inspired by 80s band - Goblin who wrote for Italian horror films
Did not get paid for his second film score which was done for a college student
You have to knock on a lot of doors to get work
Does cold calls using a variety of sources including IMDB Directors
Was scared by John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness when he was growing up
Carpenter's The Thing was very powerful
More recently - Annihilation
Two favorite film scores are Prince of Darkness and Halloween 3
Blood Rage is also very good
Movies:
Bad Hare Day - Man turns into a werewolf / rabbit hybrid
Clownado - Tornado full of angry clown spirits
Clarify with Matt
Influences: John Carrante? Richard Luduhorn? Richard Bond?
Name - Director Zane Hirsh... has used him four times