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We're in Bratislava Recording School for How We Invented The World
with the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. Today, we're recording in two sections,
we're recording 34 string musicians at the same time
as recording six woodwind musicians. And then in the afternoon, we're gonna be
recording with the big heavy brass, who are gonna have a bit of a tough
session because we're giving them lots of heavy duty
powerful bits to play. And then we'll stitch
all those two sessions together and end up with a complete film score.
I think that as soon as you have live music,
as opposed to something from a computer sample score,
you just have a thing that is wholly alive.
Sixty or so very talented musicians who each bring a personality,
each bring a strength, and they perform and there's
a kind of joy in the presentation. We got some great players here and
if we think of the many thousands of hours that all these players
have put into practice they bring a wealth of emotion
and passion and references
more kinds of other music. that unites and gels
in that magic moment that we've been looking for,
this morning in the recording. A lot of the pieces
have very challenging parts to play and they to hit certain sync points
within the film, you need to adjust, careful manipulation of the tempo
and the time signature. And so we have
to redo various sections to just make sure we got it
in tune and on time. It makes sense to record strings and the woodwind
in the morning and the brass in the afternoon, so that we can really, carefully control
the balance between the two sections.
That the brass in the score is very full and strong
and the danger is when you record that live, all in one go,
you can lose some detail. I'll be able to take
just the strings or the brass and then use them on their own.
When something is recorded really, for any medium at all,
it has to be perfect actually and so is the execution.
So we probably, we might like little things from one take to another,
or we might improve on something, subtle things usually,
that just, when combined, make for that perfection that we strive for.
There's no comparison with live orchestra compared to sample instruments.
They just add so much more expression and warmth and emotion.
To be making any kind of music in reality, you have to engage with it,
you have to experience the emotion to convey it.
And if we say, you have a large group of people
feeling an emotion like that, and it's really delivering,
it's a very exciting thing to be part of.