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Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway ), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion 's The Piano.
Jan 15, 2016 · He was an editor of the Central Office of Information, making government propaganda films and little independent experimental films. In 1976, when he seemed to want an original soundtrack written by a living composer, he turned to me because I was the only living composer he knew.
Michael Nyman is thus seen by many as a composer for film and media. However, film music represents only the tip of the iceberg in a large and diverse output that encompasses operas and symphonies, song-cycles and string quartets.
Mar 22, 2019 · Contemporary composer: Michael Nyman. A prolific composer, Nyman is perhaps best known for his distinctive film scores mixing the old and new, writes Pwyll ap Siȏn. For over four decades Michael Nyman has occupied a unique position in the contemporary music scene.
- Pwyll ap Siôn
Michael Nyman: How this all came about was that I had these cameras and I was constantly wandering around shooting things in Okinawa or Moscow, or wherever I was. I showed these films to Max Pugh and Marc Silver, whom I was working with at the time, and they were both fascinated by them and felt that my working process and my vision was ...
Said Nyman's film editor, Max Pugh: "In his practice as a film-maker, Michael observes life through the lens, shooting whatever stimulates or distracts him for no purpose other than to simply record what is there.
Michael Nyman (b. 1944) is an English composer, writer, and music director. He is a well-known composer of film music (especially for his eleven-film collaboration with Peter Greenaway and for his soundtrack for Jane Campion’s movie The Piano) and an influential proponent of experimental music.
