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	<title>Bay Area Composer and Teacher Michael Kaulkin &#187; Fibonacci</title>
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		<title>Hans Zimmer, Fibonacci and Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 20:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s San Francisco Chronicle there&#8217;s a little profile of Hollywood film composer Hans Zimmer. It looks like I&#8217;ve never seen any of the film he&#8217;s scored so far: &#8220;Gladiator&#8221;, &#8220;Batman Begins&#8221;, &#8220;The Last Samurai&#8221;, &#8220;The Thin Red Line&#8221;&#8230;. shrug. So, I have no opinion of him one way or the other as a composer, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today&#8217;s <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> there&#8217;s a little <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/21/PKGQJIPGRS1.DTL">profile</a> of Hollywood film composer Hans Zimmer.  It looks like I&#8217;ve never seen any of the film he&#8217;s scored so far: &#8220;Gladiator&#8221;, &#8220;Batman Begins&#8221;, &#8220;The Last Samurai&#8221;, &#8220;The Thin Red Line&#8221;&#8230;. <em>shrug</em>.</p>
<p>So, I have no opinion of him one way or the other as a composer, but apparently he came to a wise conclusion around using computer-generated melodies based on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number">Fibonacci Sequence</a> as a basis for the score of &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; I realized I can&#8217;t get away with a mathematical game because I&#8217;ll be found out. So I stopped writing the superficial riddle stuff&#8230; on the surface, &#8216;Da Vinci Code&#8217; is a thriller &#8212; no more no less &#8212; &#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>Way to go, Hans!  Nothing against the Fibonacci Sequence as a basis for musical composition.  Debussy, Bartók and many others used it, and I wouldn&#8217;t pick a fight with those guys, but they didn&#8217;t do it with computers.</p>
<p>Also, it would strike me as a little weird to use computer-generated Fibonacci fodder in a dramatic work, such as a film score, where you already have an inherent basis for musical composition: the drama!</p>
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