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Apr 26, 2024 · Djawadi sat down with Inverse to unpack his process, ... When I was growing up, what really got me into it was the score for The Magnificent Seven by Elmer Bernstein. I remember watching that film ...
- On Game of Thrones & House of The Dragon
- On Scoring Video Games & Going on Tour
- On Squid Game & Being A ‘80s Kid
- On Synesthesia & Writing Music with His Kids
What did you find most challenging about returning to the sonic world of Game of Thrones? Finding that happy medium between continuing the original DNA of the show and making sure it all is connected, but then, of course, setting up all the new themes and motifs and creating that continuity and that expansion on the story. How did you ensureHouse o...
You’ve scored video games, likeMedal of Honor,before. How does scoring a game differ from scoring a film or show? The one big difference in video games compared to TV and movies is that a majority of the music that gets written is not synced to picture. [Gameplay] cannot be synced because you don't know how the player is going to react and how long...
What score do you wish you had written? I got inspired by Elmer Bernstein's Magnificent Seven [soundtrack]. When I saw that movie and when I heard that score — how the themes were attached to characters and how that all played out — it was so memorable. That’s when I discovered the whole world of film music that really inspired me. And then, of cou...
You’re from Germany and of Iranian descent. Does your heritage impact your compositions at all? Oh, big time. When I write music, I never really think about it. You just do it [laughs]. I've always struggled with explaining my process. But once I started analyzing it a bit more, I realized, “Now I understand where that comes from.” I was heavily su...
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Early life. Djawadi was born in Duisburg to an Iranian father and a German mother. [2] He went to Krupp Gymnasium in Duisburg, West Germany and studied at Berklee College of Music. [7] [8]
On growing up in Germany; on his early interest in music and sports; on learning multiple instruments when he was young and on why he liked to play music; on music he liked listening to when he was young and on being in a band; on TV theme songs and film scores that he liked -- including the score to The Magnificent Seven; on wanting to pursue ...
Apr 15, 2013 · Ramin Djawadi: The one that really triggered it for me was The Magnificent Seven [scored by Elmer Bernstein]. I used to love American Westerns growing up in Germany.
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Sep 22, 2022 · RD: Look, we’ve spent so much time with these characters—we really got attached to Daenerys and Jon Snow and all these great characters, and the themes really kind of grew with them every ...
Feb 14, 2017 · Djawadi witnessed the world of American westerns from Germany, where he grew up learning to play the organ. From there, he rode off into a career composing music for movies and TV.
