Influences

   


Morricone Ennio (b.1928)

His sound is unique.

Aspects of Morricone's music that interest me are the way he used instrumental effects and voices in his spaghetti westerns as if they were wild animals - employing the rules that determine how and when animals scream to structure layers of his film music composition. I find the way he writes heterophicically also very effective, interesting and fresh. He incorporates unusual instruments (e.g. the clavioline, harmonicas, wordless voices etc.), the unusual ways he gets instruments to play and the times when he uses non-musical instruments (e.g. machine guns) as a musical sound.

Dogged and uncompromising, I love Morricone's prolific Italian art. Beautiful.