Monday 13 September 2010

A brief word about some very cheeky composers

WARNING: The following blog contains material of an extremely geeky nature, which some readers may find incredibly sad.

Greetings all! I'm working on another blog post at the moment which will hopefully go up at the end of the week, but in the meantime I wanted to share an observation I made yesterday. Now in order for you to understand this fully, you need to listen to the first couple of minutes or so of this, which is taken from the Battlestar Galactica Season 2 soundtrack by Bear McCreary.

Better yet, listen to it a couple of times. Then follow this link for a program on the BBC iPlayer called "Nature's Great Events: The Great Tide". I was watching this last night and noticed around 39-40 minutes in that the background music sounded strangely familiar. Have a listen for yourself and see what you think. (By the way, the link probably won't work after Saturday 18th, as the program won't be available on iPlayer after that date.)

Incidentally, I had a look in the credits to see if Bear McCreary had been acknowledged at least as a creative influence, but alas his name was nowhere to be seen. I just wanted to put this out there to see if anyone else reckons their soundtrack writers cut a couple of corners. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

I'm sure I don't even need to say this, but I'm not responsible for the content of anything I link to in my blog, unless of course I've created it myself, which in this case I haven't. Please don't sue me.