by Thomas Newman.
Who composes the scores for porn? (Please, if you know the answer don't tell me - I suspect that there is not a little man who goes back to his music studio like Thomas Newman or John Williams or Ennio Morricone and thinks hard about how to orchestrate the music in perfect sync with the action and just which musical instruments will complement the mise-en-scène, they just get any old random piece of music and stick it on the soundtrack, but allow me a moment here...)
Why do you hear this music nowhere else in the world? What is the ubiquity of the synthesizer all about? Is it on sale separately anywhere, perhaps in the soundtrack section of HMV? Would it not be hilarious if people put it on in the background at dinner parties? What do the musicians tell their families about their careers? (Yes, it's going really well- actually I'm working on a film soundtrack at the moment - you want tickets to the premiere? Well, that could be tricky...)
And, if it's not a silly question, why is there generally no good music on the soundtrack? Would it not enhance your viewing pleasure if there was? Sometimes it sounds positively New Age-y, like the kind of thing you'd hear in a flotation tank. Hmm, maybe this is the vocation I've been seeking...
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It's just royalty-free stock music. If you watch student films you'll notice they use it too. Plinky plonky.
So what kind style of music is being used in porn these days, Annie? Do tell...
I can't imagine anything but funky Starsky & Hutch wah-wah rhythm guitar as the backing track for a 70s porno. Apparently, Jizz flick backing tracks went all metal in the mid 80s.
Family Guy did a bit on this, showing the Soundtrack award section of the porn Oscars. Three of the movies were soundtracked by sleazy guys on synthesizers, and the fourth by John Williams and an entire orchestra.
I'd imagine that the music is rubbish because it is of little or no importance to the viewer. See plot.
And I'd forgotten how unattractive Madonnna is/was. Thanks! Off to remove nasty film before eyes with some Ava Gardner.
Do music students study porn soundtracks? I read somewhere that design students in the States watch clips from a porn library for the 'sociology' angle of interiors, don't you know.
Ah, that's the distinction between real porn films (plinkyplonky synth) and those soft-porn films on C5 (plinkyplonky synth plus sax solo that kicks in when the woman gets her unfeasible tits out)
Annie *la la la* can't hear you...
Istvanski - or so I hear tell *cough*
Metal! Hi-lar-ious!
Del - yes, but then why even bother? (This is why more women should be making them - actual plots, better music...)
Arabella, you are harsh. I was just thinking how bonny (as opposed to bony) she looked back then. That is highly intriguing about the design students. I wonder who first thought of that?
Tim - synths are bad enough, adding a sax is aural torture.
Now I'm thinking - most unlikely soundtrack to a blue movie?
The theme from the Archers?
Rumpy pumpy pumpy pump
Rumpy pumpy pump pump.
Yep, see exactly where you're coming from Annie... Oooh errr!
Heh - yah Annie - what are you talking about?
Personally, I could do without all the music. I'd rather not have the distraction when energetically and furiously concentrating.
Rad - hahaha! An everyday tale of country folk, indeed.
Sar - the clue is in the first question.
Mr Page's Trousers - I'll bear your wishes in mind for when I make my next movie.
Aaah, you need to try some Bill Bailey medieval pron soundtrack, he has the style down superbly :) It all sounds like 70s remaindered "12 best organ songs" to me.
Organ music for organ action!!
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