Let’s start talking about the beginnings of your musical education and career. How did you become interested in this area? When was the time you fell in love with the guitar?
Nick Glennie-Smith‚ musician of the rock stars‚ the friend of Hans Zimmer‚ and mediaventurian composer‚ collaborates regularly in France at the “Puy du Fou” (French visual show).
Interview on the occasion of The Gent Filmfestival 2003 The composer of Gladiator‚ The Time Machine‚ K19 get back to his adventure in Mediaventures‚ and the making of Pirates of the Caribbean
The story tells that filmmusic composition is a one-man job. But stories are far from reality. At the side of Hans Zimmer‚ Klaus Badelt‚ Steve Jablonski or Harry Gregson-Williams at Mediaventures is Geoff Zanelli‚ a newcomer composer who handled musical parts of some of the biggest budget movies of the last years as The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)‚ Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)‚ Pirates of Caribbeans (Gore Verbinski) Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay) or Chicken Run (Nick Park). We had the pleasure to talk to him via mail to have his point of view on filmmusic composition.
