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| IVÁN
NOEL: Extensively travelled 38 year-old trilingual British/French musician, composer and film maker. Eclectic guitarist/pianist, was awarded a merit grade VIII level at 15 years of age from Royal College of Music, London. Specialised in classical and flamenco, and plays as sessions musician in pop, jazz and World-music recordings. Holds a bachelors in music from York University. Studied film music composition under Wilfrid Josephs in the UK, and Antoine Duhamel (of the Truffaut films) in Paris. Has composed extensively works ranging from classical orchestral to pop (Finalist winner of the Brit Song writing Competition 2004), as well as flamenco and world music fusions. Director of shorts, documentaries and the recent feature movie ‘In Your Absence’: |
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| IVÁN NOEL ON HIS FILM
MUSIC: I believe in organic music, and try to use real instruments wherever possible. I also reject two of the most commonly heard methods in film music composition: plagiarism and laziness. Composing film music is not the composer’s justification for writing neo-romantic nonsense, or vacuous accompaniments, but a careful look at how, as a composer, one can underline the sentiments of the film sequence and add depth to it musically. A successful film composition would add the equivalent of a ‘third dimension’ to the emotion at hand, and be neither too imposing as to pull the attention away from the viewer, nor too inconsequent for him to ignore it. Such works, to be successful, need a balance of artistic honesty, talent and lack of egotism from the composer. Which is why so much film music fails. Mine is a continuing attempt at creating the ideal film score. |