A Composer’s Perspective

Joel Douek: “If you are scoring a picture there is likely to be dialogues. So the most important thing is in your choice of instrumentation and your choice of palette, you want to stay away from instruments that will be competing with the dialogue. “

Joel Douek: “Advertisers and Brands, what they are always looking for is a shortcut into the consumers and yet the missed that sound and music is the tool for exactly that.”

Joel Douek: “The origin of film was to answer a bet between two people to see if at any point in time of a horses gallop all four hooves were off the ground. The only way they could test this was to take sections of photographs to be able to look at it. “

Joel Douek: “Lot of the time when I am doing TV Sport Network melody, I struggled with that because it does not come with any background, sense or context. I found it that I need to create the context first”

Joel Douek: “Majority of people play music when they wake up to get motivated, maybe they play music in the shower etc. We are musical beings. Early research suggests that early human language was musical in nature.”

Joel Douek: “I can actually remember to when I was really young. My parents were not musical, but they were active music listeners. For my sixth or seventh birthday, I had an older cousin, and he gave me a double album of the Greatest of Jazz.”

Joel Douek: “Like for most people it has been a rollercoaster. I had to extreme quarantine myself for the entire year. Birds flying high, you know how I feel. Sun in the sky, you know how I feel.Breeze driftin’ on by, you know how I feel…