It’s really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we’re interested in. Anne Dudley Read Quote
Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you’ve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously. Anne Dudley Read Quote
I always think it’s important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you’re going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour’s worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme. Anne Dudley Read Quote
Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway – the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature – or you don’t. Anne Dudley Read Quote
Sometimes in films it’s nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you’ve got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it’s good to have the basses in the middle. Anne Dudley Read Quote
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now. Anne Dudley Read Quote
Obviously in Art of Noise, I’m just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it’s always in collaboration with the director and other people involved. Anne Dudley Read Quote
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance. Anne Dudley Read Quote
