Score: A Film Music Documentary Page #5

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[KRAFT] That was different

than other writers at the time.

These are not melodic ideas.

These are little phrases

that had circular

madness to them,

that worked really well

in Alfred Hitchcock movies.

It felt like everything's driving

forward in a sick,

inevitably disastrous way.

Bernard Herrmann, he had balls.

So just to do what he did

with "Psycho" in the shower scene.

[PSYCHO "SHOWER SCENE"

THEME MUSIC]

[SCREAMS]

Without the music,

it's not that scary.

You notice the cuts, you

notice the process.

As soon as you put

the music there

["PSYCHO" SHOWER SCENE

THEME MUSIC]

You're stuck in the mindset

of this psychotic killer.

[BATES] Outside

of the context of that movie,

people probably just wonder,

"What the hell is the noise?

Turn it off."

["PSYCHO" VIOLIN SOUND]

But it was so effective

in that moment.

It really tricked you

into believing you saw way more

of the violent act in that scene

than really occurred.

[SYNTH PAD MUSIC]

[HOLKENBORG] When you

read a book, and it says

"There is this great forest,"

everybody pictures a forest.

None of these forests

will be the same.

It's exactly

the same with music.

You can ask 15 other composers

to read that same script,

they will all have

different musical ideas.

One of the things that I find

so liberating about film music

is the fact

that any instrument is valid,

as long as it makes

the movie better.

I have about five storage areas

that are all filled

with musical equipment.

At a certain point,

I collect enough stuff

that when it starts to look

like a junk store,

then the people here do an intervention

and they take everything.

They scrape it clean, and I just

start over collecting things again.

["RUGRATS" PIANO THEME]

It was a piano

something like that.

I bought it at a toy store

at the Beverly Center,

and I played the theme song

for "Rugrats,"

because I thought I'd never need

to play the toy piano again.

It was like $60 bucks.

I thought, "What a lot of money"

to spend on a toy piano."

["RUGRATS" THEME SONG PLAYS]

So I bought it, brought it

to my studio, and recorded it.

Then I took it back

and got my money back.

And now I always wonder,

where is that toy piano

that I wrote the theme

song for "Rugrats" on?

Many times I start the cue from playing

other things, not the computer.

[PLAYING RHYTHM]

These are tuned sleigh bells.

They're very rare.

There's music in everything.

I'll be taking an elevator.

You'll be in the thing

and then all of a sudden

the door will be like [WHOOSH].

And you're just like,

"What was that, man?

That was cool, you know?" And

you come back to the studio

and try to recreate that sound.

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