VSL Studio Chat with Danny Elfman
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- Many users of Vienna Symphonic Library products enjoy a successful careers as film composers, orchestrators, and conductors. In our Studio Chats interview series, we present extraordinary artists sharing their individual approaches to writing and orchestrating music for film and television. Danny Elfman's scoring credits include Alice in Wonderland, Batman, Batman Returns, Dark Shadows, Dick Tracy, Edward Scissorhands, Hulk, Men in Black, Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man, Mars Attacks, and Mission: Impossible.
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If i could sneak into a cardboard box, in the corner and just watch him work, I’d peacefully got to jail after i got caught....
Elfman: 'and ye then i just showed this to Tim as one of my short little demos'
*literally creates some of the most captivating and mesmerising film music ever created*
love the bladerunner pfp
Danny's Spider-Man score was the best.
is
With james horner's score
Michael McKenzie no Edward scissorhands best by far
Difficult to say really.. I'd say Batman (the 1st) would be my personal best, but I love Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow and Spiderman so much as well... really, Danny Elfman is my favorite composer. Been since I was 10 and watched Beetlejuice in theaters.
His Batman score is the best.
Danny is one of my 5 top best composers today. I can usually tell it's him without even seeing the credits. Fantastic work.
Living composers? Please name me the other 4. Would love to hear new good music.
@@flowerpunkchip don't know his but mine is Hans Zimmer: Man of Steel, BVS, Inception and Interstellar, didn't mention dark knight trilogy becuz although it's good it's pretty backgroundy. Tom Holkenborg: Godzilla VS Kong, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and I've heard the recent Mad Max as well, James Newton Howard: Unbreakable, John Williams: you know this one already I assume but surprisingly he isn't retired from scoring, Michael Giacchino: a good bit of his music is backgroundy but his work on Star Trek and The Batman and Spider Man Homecoming and Far From Home are pretty memorable
Mine are: nick arundel, marty odonell and Mike Salvatori, danny Elfman, Tchaikovsky, John williams and motoi sakuraba. I can appreciate Mozart and Bach for their historical impact but there music is inferior to many later composers as a result of advancement in music as well as just smarter people overall.
@@nathanielmorgan9108 In terms of film composers my favorites are Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Bear McCreary, John Williams. I like Holkenborg as well.
@@nickavenoso7851 how could I forget Elfman! Sorry. I should have replaced someone on my list for Elfman. He's a genius. There's really too many good film composers to condense down to 5. Because now Benjamin Wallfisch(misspelled his name I'm sure but that's how it sounds), Ludwig Goransson, Dave Porter, Vangelis, Ennio Morricone and Howard Shore come to mind.
I fall asleep to Danny's music almost every night. Haunting and lovely!!
Alice sounds a little like Charlie and the chocolate factory. He's brilliant and I love all his creations.
I love the fact that we can see him get totally lost in the music he's created when he hits play and his world comes alive.
God Danny Elfman is the true definition of genius.
not necessarily
not really
I know a couple of people who know him and they say he doesn't or didn't read music manuscript
He really is an incredible composer.
Yeah he’s so tight
Danny is Legendary
I think it's interesting how the lead singers of the two most popular 80s counter culture new wave bands, Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo and Mark Morhersbaugh of Devo, became successful and unique composers. :) I love their stuff, both the film scores and band!
Yes!! Absolutely!! I'd come up with a more intelligent way to agree with what you're saying, but adding two exclamation points seemed to be the only way.
Erin Atoms Both brilliant fiercely individual musicians in their day!
And Hans Zimmer was a key player in 80s bands
Mothersbaugh wrote the theme song for Rugrats.
Now Trent Reznor from NIN and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead
I wish there was a TV station that played stuff like this all the time. A mixture of composer work flows, live session recordings, interview's, and masterclass teaching a technique or creating a cue for different types of project's.
it's very soothing listening to him. he should also narrate audiobooks
I love how Danny uses choir, so epic and open! Legend
He seems like such a cool guy and is extremely good at what he does. Seeing him in concert at the Royal Albert Hall was a spectacular experience!
Danny Elfman is the GOAT, tied with John Williams imo
What an amazing human. Mr. Elfman, you are incredible
I LOVED Danny's score for Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes! The fact that Jerry Goldsmith won an Oscar for his atonal score for the original movie must have focused Danny's imagination. I thought the opening sequence in 3/4 (because Apes would "march" using one of their front arms as well as their back legs) was such a simple yet clever idea. Pure genius!
Um Jerry never won an Oscar for Planet of the apes,
Danny Elfman should have won an Oscar for Alice in Wonderland.
Alice in Wonderland..???
F that. His Batman 89 score deserved ALL the awards it didn't get or even nominated.
Spider-Man and Charlie and the chocolate factory
@@isuriadireja91 tbf, the Last Crusade came out the same year
@@budmb2 yes, so...?? why's that fair..? John Williams also got another nomination for Born on the 4th of July that year..so, IF you truly wanna be fair, the academy should've nominated him for just one of of those works and given that one other slot to Elfman for this MUCH DESERVING work that HAS become the best known original score than any of those nominated that year.
TBF...The Last Crusade didn't really have any new stuff that really distinguished itself from the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
then there's another slot given to the score to The Fabulous Baker Boys..which is a nice score..but, it's NO WAY in the same league as Elfman's work on Batman.
@@isuriadireja91 I’m with you on Batman being a good score. It’s one of my favorite movie scores of all time, but Last Crusade is tied with it for me. th-cam.com/video/y-xAX63A4ok/w-d-xo.html
Alice in Wonderland is my favorite thing he's done. It's so beautiful, mysterious, and epic. His music is one of the biggest reasons I love that movie
I like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory better
it's magnetic how Danny explains all this.
When I was a kid Oingo Boingo was not one of the choicest bands playing but I always thought they had a distinctive sound that nobody else could duplicate. There was the talking heads and Dave Bowie and a lot of other Sioxxe and the banshees etc. But I saw Pee Wee's big adventure and thought wow that was one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. Little did I know Dan would be one of the greatest influences between ears and one of the greatest composers of all time..
Danny elfman is Bach of the film industry
What a fantastically talented guy!
Looks like he’s working in MOTU Digital Performer.
He is brilliant!
he voiced jack (singing) from the nightmare before christmas
Sweet and gentle Danny.
more like gay and swishy
Jim A on which you seem to be an expert.
My sentiments are mutual. Its beautiful to listen to wonderful music composers that create wonderful master pieces that have the ability to change peoples inner feeling of music. I agree, I do stand in AWE
You said it! Danny's music completely changed how I hear music and how it makes me feel. I remember walking out of the theater after my 1st viewing of Edward Scissorhands, with that music filling my mind and soul, feeling like I was floating on a cloud. NEVER had I been affected by ANY music like that before. If Danny is the "Angel of Music", then I am his "Christine".
I am totally at a consensus with his words on musical trends.
Low-key more amused than I feel that I should be by his surveillance monitor in the background. Talk about fighting for your 'alone time'.
Agreed!
it's so he can keep n eye out for the crazy fangirls like me trying to sneak into his studio :D
Danny Elfman won an Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for The Batman Theme from Batman (1989 film), 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music - Desperate Housewives Theme: Season 1 and Outstanding Music Direction - Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton.
Elfman is a Genious
your spelling is "Genious"
I could listen to him talk for hours.
huge fan...........
What an incredibly clever creator! A true genius!
Love this, I could listen to him talk about this all day. I wish I could sit down and drink a beer (or many beers) with him and chat shop.
yeah, that's awesome ! Danny is also my absolute favorite composer. Didn't know he was using VSL Studio plus my home countries Vienna Symphonic Library. Just great inspiration and music with lot's of passion ! Just love it ! Thx for sharing this video !!!
Wow, what an amazing guy! A true creative genius! Thanks for posting this wonderful video, and thank you to Vienna Strings!.
What an excellent & remarkable inspiration this video is, Thanks so much for the upload, it's a good interview !
Absolutely appreciated, still!
The breakfast scene in Pee wees big adventure is bad ass! This guy is a backdoor genius.
+Charlie & snoopy Yeah I still like some of his early scores the best. Peewee's and "Back to School" are as great!
I only know him as the legendary composer behind Spider-Man.
Very enjoyable and inspiring! Thanks so much for sharing:)
spider man para mi es el mejor trabajo de Danny
Really enjoyed this!
great interview!
Danny brilliant, evolving, creative, intelligent, humble..! 🎶 💞 Blessings.
thank you for the video
The absolute best around
Great interview! It was so interesting to see how he works and develops concepts.
I agree... can't beat the real strings IMO. p.s. Favourite Danny Elfman scores have to be Beetlejuice and Edward Scissor Hands.
One of my favorite composers
sick work man !
my idol
My man.
The sound on this channel is very good, no surprise
so he uses the Vienna Symphonic Strings for Mock up? but they still sound good
wonderful
He's a genious
Thanks Danny! I love Family man OST.
Just another day in the genius salt mine.
Great info!
so cool!!
Very good.
Ok Danny security man lol
alice this was a great composition
Very educational and enlighten
DE is brilliant.
I'm with you Danny....!! Homogeneous sound is an artistic Killing music trend. Temp tracks are bogus for me although sometimes if it fits I do hang on to it.
I absolutely loved the music in the film and it suited the film so well.
But its the wrong Danny Elfman 😂
The Vienna strings sounded gorgeous and they are a credit to the film.
Pretty striking how he looks like Dominic West from "The Affair" Tv serie even his voice is almost identical !!!
I’ve always loved his work, ever since the Pee Wee movie.
I've watched this video thousand times and I wonder why Elfman audio tracks are recorded with camera microphone...
Very inspired.
The Vienna Symphonic Library logo is the Saturn Black Cube 😳
Im jelly for his celli
Danny is a genius
he probably did the freakin simpsons theme on a Calculator thats how awesome he is!
+YoungBlaze Of Chitown why?:D
+KingUDERZO just to prove hes danny elfman
from a previous interview with Elfman........he got the job....came up with it in the car on the way home....recorded track soon as he got home............then sent it in.....
He has said in an interview that he thought up the whole Simpsons theme in the car on the way home. Then he recorded it as soon as he got to his studio.
You should do one of these with Nick Arundel from the Batman Arkham games
Dany very good composer...
4:08 I wonder if that tune he was hearing in his wasn't from a previous disney tron legacy 2009 as I'm kinder hearing it my head as well.
You would think he showing his sequenced demos alongside the final version should kill the old stories that he doesn't write his own arrangements.
He just doesn't write them with a pencil on lined sheet music paper. Apparently in the music world "purists" aka snobs, look down on any composer who doesn't know how to write the music down with a pencil, but plays it on the piano into a computer instead. Danny explained in another interview they mockingly refer to composers like him as "hummers", as before computers, he'd work with an arranger and hum each part of the tune to them. Luckily he used those snide remarks as fuel to prove himself, and thank goodness the world has his gorgeous music because he didn't give up! My personal favorite is the Batman Returns soundtrack... hauntingly beautiful.
@@AA-zq1sxBut he does know how to write it down on paper. He taught himself in the 70s by listening to Duke Ellington and writing the notes down. He was maybe lazy about writing the notes for his Oingo Boingo songs down though.
Great
I love how he refers to cellos as celli
Hi Danny Elfman, Do you use just specifically some VSL Instruments such as the Cube or Synchron Series? Thank You, Alan Warrick
Hey, can someone tell me where I can get that thing Danny has, just under his mouse is?
+Lucas Toledo A mousepad?
+Lucas Toledo yeh i noticed that right away too....anyone know what that is? I must have it
it's just an ergonomic mousepad... or did i miss something? can't even tell if this whole thing is sarcasm lol
What keyboard does he use for those synthetic voices on this demo?
Here's an unusual sound comparison between full orchestra and chamber orchestra size.
> Vienna Orchestral Strings vs. Dimension Strings, CineStrings, and Mural Strings
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Elfman also uses EastWest/Quantum Leap and various other libraries.
Danny Elfman has a unique individual sound, I can recognise his music without knowing who composed it. Same with people like John Williams, James Horner (RIP), Hans Zimmer etc. All have unique individual sounds and that's why directors use them over and over. Tim Burton mostly always uses Danny Elfman and his unique sound matches perfectly with the obscure worlds that Tim Burton creates, and I can imagine how hard it would be for Danny to work with a different director who doesn't know him as well as Tim does, and to say "Hey I like how this temp music sounds in this scene, can you make something like that?" People like Danny Elfman and the above mentioned, they should have complete creative control over the score, trying to tell them how to make their music is like telling somebody how to portray their personality.
Steven Jones I wouldnt say so. I think that’s always been the massive assumption about Danny Elfman based on the way Tim Burton movies are advertised and marketed today. It’s not really true.
Elfman is extremely versatile in his sound but he always has a great, individual sense of what sounds good and surprising. I think it’s that hook, surprise and atmosphere that you might be able to recognise Elfman’s best scores by. In recent years it has become less unique and people try to use him for “that Danny Elfman sound”, which is very sad and kind of boxes him in a corner. He is also perhaps a more jaded today. But he works with all sorts of directors, he’s not just an extension of Burton and his work (in his best composing years) were all very diverse
All of his music has an ADHD crack baby quality to it
I'm here because curious and always try to find the creators of the products that interested me. Soundtracks from the movie hulk in the list of special songs :)
what composition program is he using? anyone? thank you!
+Danny Crook digital performer
Anyone know what kind of midicontroller Danny is using here?
...looks like an Avid Artist Mix DAW-Controller...
Vienna Symphonic Library Great! Thanks!
+Vienna Symphonic Library And the Midi Keyboard?
+Souliban It's a Kurzweil
+Vienna Symphonic Library thank you
This man is the Harvard professor of film scoring
Digital Performer 3 in Classic Mode in OSX Tiger on a PowerPC Mac. In the year of our lord 2014. If it works, it works!
What program is he using?
Oingo Boingo
temptrack-love is fatal....
He has a look on his face like “this is my private life, get me out of here!”
+Vienna Symphonic Library YOU NEED TO INTERVIEW MARTIN PAGE (EX-Q-FEEL SINGER)
What is the software he is using at 3:40 ???
Looks like is Digital Performer, and from the look at the apple logo in the top left side of the screen it seems that he is using a pretty old version of OSX, and probably a pretty old mac (maybe 2005 PowerPC or early Intel). So you don't need the latest technology to do amazing things :D
He sure is.