Director and composer John Carpenter talks with Paste about his new 'Anthology,' working with his family and his filmography.
It’s Halloween, which means it’s time for my bi-yearly phone call with John Carpenter. Last time I talked to him,was about to come out and he, his son Cody and his godson Daniel Davies had composed the score for the middle section of David Gordon Green’s reboot trilogy. It was business as usual, chatting about the ins and outs of providing the music for a film you have no hand in building .
The second thing. It was a necessity. Student filmmakers, we never had any money for something like that. I would provide the music—I did for other students and I did for myself. That was the same forThere wasn’t much on scoring at all, nothing. They didn’t have classes. They had a music department, which was pretty incredible. But, when I was there, they really didn’t do the scoring.
It would be nice to see your take on it someday. Most of the synth music you were interested in back in the 1970s was derived from sci-fi movies. Were you tapped into electronic bands like Kraftwerk at all? My first love ever was cinema. That’s never going to change. I grew up with music, it was second nature to me. My dad was a musician. It’s very close to me, but it’s not the same love as movies. But I domaking music with my son and my godson . That’s been just a joy, so I have a second career now—a second act. They used to say that Americans don’t have second acts, but I lucked into one.I can’t remember exactly when. We were playing together one day. “Holy shit.
It’s the notes you play, and that’s the big thing. If you get a low sound, it pretty much sounds ominous by itself. But that could just be a bass part in the music that’s, otherwise, not ominous. So, it’s all stuff that you play., had it been better received and people just didn’t immediately want Michael Myers back?collection, we get to hear a lot of synth cues that soundtrack when Michael makes movements. But there are also quite a lot of softer moments, like “Laurie’s Theme.
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