Social Network- Music and Film

I have not had a chance to check out the movie “The Social Network” but the only reason I care to see it is because I am a huge fan of Trent Reznor (nine inch nails)of which scored the film. I have listened to a few of the soundtracks on YouTube and they remind me of what most of the ghosts album tracks are like. Every track has an image that it has been set to. The music gives the overall impression/feeling of the image. So yea his music works well with visual media.

I found it very cool coming across an interview with the people involved with production of the music for “The Social Network.” It gave some insight on the process they took in the making of the music and the collaboration that came about with the director. The director had Reznor in mind the whole time for the score. He was going for a synthesizer 80’s style mixed with modern scoring technique. I also found it interesting while shooting scenes they immediately were thinking about the music by putting temporary tracks to use as a starting place/idea/general mood.
In this project Reznor also works with Atticus Ross, of which he has been collaborating with since With Teeth (around 2005.) In the interview Reznor tells a little how they work, he free composes a little, and Ross tweaks it and/or arranges it differently, Reznor comes back and says who made this piece? Its cool what two people can come up with, it’s like a synthesis and things can happen in ways that one may never have thought possible. Also on how they worked, they sent mp3’s of the tracks to the director, found where material was placed, got feedback, and rearranged the music as they saw fit. Another challenge they had to overcome was re-imagining “In the hall of the mountain king” (Grieg) in synthesized manner. They ended up pulling it off and it sounds pretty good it... Wendy Carlos… eat your heart out.

This was cool to see a guy work outside his comfortable medium and do something different and successful with other people. I think he won some awards for scoring the film… I’m sure Reznor will be doing more work like this and it should be awesome to see what is next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpqy_y39-Ac