Hey, how many of you still collect little musical gremlins?
A riff. A motif. A strange little tune that wanders in, lights a cigarette in your brain, and refuses to leave.
Do you squirrel those things away and later build something properly obscene out of them? A cue, a song, a score, a whole piece?
Or has melody basically become an accidental by-product of running a DAW loop for too long with a kick-ass beat until some 'almost music' ostinato achieves squatter’s rights?
I’m genuinely curious how other composers work now. Are you still hunting themes on purpose, or are you waiting for repetition to evolve a spine?
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Melody is not dead to me. at least when it comes to composing that is. I still have an old school approach and try to mix that in with the new way of composing as well. I find it now filmmakers are more interested in sound than they are actual music. every film I work on it's a new challenge but it's always about the producer or directors story and vision. so now I don't think Melody is dead, but certainly it's not always the most revered part of a soundtrack
I'm glad to hear it Bruce Bray ! It's definitely not dead to me, either. In fact it's the movie soundtracks that are built on melody rather than sound design that I remember the best. For instance I might not know the names of all the James Bond films, but I sure do recognize the tunes/music.