via John"Here's a cool shot of Hans Zimmer's setup shown during a featurette on the Dark Knight DVD about how Zimmer designed the unique theme for the Joker. It's about a 6 minute segment, just about this. He does play it and also discusses how they brought in guitar, cello and pianos being played in unconventional ways (eg. with razor blades) then processed them together to get what he calls 'the sound of anarchy'. It actually made me want to buy the soundtrack which I almost never do." Moog modular and more. Note the modular wall behind the Moog. I believe he has some Roland System 500 and 100m in there. The Dark Knight on Amazon
http://www.hans-zimmer.com/Update via creekcree in the comments:
The Dark Knight (2008) The Sound Of Anarchy
note the Jazzmutant Lemurs
Update:
Hans Zimmer scoring The Dark Knight
YouTube via suatrilha — January 07, 2009 — http://www.jacarandaaudio.com/
you can watch the feature here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyovTeLJ6gk&eurl=http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/index.php
I was disappointed that this soundtrack wasn't nominated for an Oscar. It was probably my favourite album last year and still gets a lot of listens now.
ReplyDeleteThe section 03:25 - 04:10 of Why So Serious is a great low-end test.
WTF - i literally just rented this last night and JUST watched this clip!!!
ReplyDeleteeveryone should note that Hans Zimmer has his Moog on rolling metroshelving! Just like we do here at Modularland http://modularland.com
ReplyDeleteTurns out he just used one sine wave through a VCA shaped by an AR... ;-)
ReplyDeleteMan he looks so Haggard!
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of that belly.
ReplyDeleteI've seen more complete shots of the modular walls behind the moog - it has to be seen to be believed - truly monstrous. We're only seeing about 1/6th of it.
ReplyDeleteIt was a nice theme for an evil character, but I don't find it very innovative when people craft found sounds into electronic soundscapes. I love that, but it's been done since the 80s. Samplers used to be used for more than beat loops.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Robbie. Though it does sound cool enough, I don't think it's as groundbreaking as they're telling themselves.
ReplyDeleteIt just gets a little tiresome when 'important' directors and composers sit around ruminating on how deep and meticulous their creative process is. I mean - all of the meta-discussion about the emotional connection with the character and how innovative they are and all that is most just talk. In the end he just took chunks that sounded cool out of 9000 samples and processed them a bit. No matter how much pondering they did about it, it still doesn't sound so unbelievably fresh to me. It kinda just sounds like slightly modernized Shining-style Ligeti.