Interview with Ryan Amon 作曲家专访：瑞安·阿蒙

Author: Gergely Vilaghy

Immortality的简介是一个传统的史诗预告片专辑。我一直在寻找没有混合元素的大声音，并且知道大型管弦乐队会录制它，我很兴奋。目标还在于使其对编辑器非常友好……

如果您可以挑选三部过去或现在的电影作为Immortality的线索可以做广告，它们会是什么？

我认为这张专辑非常适合超级英雄类型。我在写作时考虑了动作和戏剧的结合，所以我认为它适合像雷神、神奇四侠和美国队长这样的电影，尽管也有适合特洛伊或不朽者等史诗电影的曲目.

你能告诉我们一些关于从最初的讨论到最终签署的与 Fired Earth Music 合作的过程吗？

在 Fired Earth Music 与 Hannah 和 Sara 一起工作非常棒。他们真的脚踏实地，享受他们所做的事情，这让参与其中变得很有趣。至于专辑的第一次讨论，基本上是关于这些曲目可能用于什么样的电影的对话，他们让我可以接受。他们正在寻找史诗般的和传统的东西，远离电子影响。有时，作为作曲家，您最初开始创作的作品与您认为想法可能想要去的地方发生了不同的转变，我实际上喜欢这个过程的那一部分，你知道，能够让它去到它想去的地方。沿途进行了一些调整，他们知道这会让剪辑师更容易切入。

你在你的职业生涯中写了很多预告片，这是你的第一张完全由你作曲的专辑吗？

好吧，我几年前才开始制作预告片音乐。在那之前，我正在为电视做音乐，我想扩展并挑战自己。我一直很喜欢听史诗音乐，我认为作曲家喜欢写他们喜欢听的东西。所以这对我来说是很自然的下一步。我在 2009 年开始了自己的个人项目，这样我就可以完全自由地创作我想要的那种预告片音乐，这对我来说很有趣。’Immortality’ 是我在自己的公司之外制作的第一张完整专辑。

在过去的 12 个月里，您还从事过哪些其他项目？

去年我为我自己的公司完成了一张名为Divine Power的预告片音乐专辑，我也一直在制作我的第一部电影。我非常喜欢写电影音乐，能有机会为我的职业生涯打开一扇新的大门，我感到非常幸运。

瑞安·阿蒙 (Ryan Amon) 的未来会怎样？接下去你想去哪？

我很想拍电影。这首先是让我接触管弦乐的原因，我想不出还有什么比音乐与画面的结合更强大的了……整个讲故事的过程。我在学校是一名摄影专业的学生，所以开始使用这两种媒介（视觉和听觉）非常适合我的大脑工作方式。我也期待在未来做更多的预告片音乐，也许会把一些东西推到盒子外面。大多数认识我的人都知道我是一名基督徒，我的信仰激发了我创作的音乐。所以我对上帝在未来为我准备的一切持开放态度。我花了一段时间才明白作曲家如何真正帮助他人，就像医生或教师的职业一样。但我意识到我们有能力激发灵感，

Immortality is the latest album from Fired Earth Music featuring 12 cues from the extremely talented composer, Ryan Amon. I can’t describe this album better than the designer of the cover art Scott Eaton whose work was inspired by Ryan’s epic music: “It was powerful & orchestral with that unmistakable cinematic sound. This epic music resonated with the type of classically inspired artwork I create, whether characters for Hollywood films or creating my own artwork.” Know more about this album from the composer himself!

Tell us about the project brief and the direction you took for Immortality?

The brief for Immortality was for a traditional epic trailer album. I was looking for that big sound without the hybrid elements, and it was a thrill to work on it knowing that a large orchestra would be recording it. The goal was also to make it very editor-friendly…

If you could pick three movies, past or present that Immortality‘s cues could advertise, what would they be?

I think this album would fit the superhero genre really well. I wrote with the combination of action and drama in my mind, so I think it would lend itself to films like Thor, The Fantastic Four, and Captain America, although there are also tracks that would work well for epic films like Troy or The Immortals.

Can you tell us a little bit about the process of working with Fired Earth Music from initial discussions to final sign off?

Working with Hannah and Sara at Fired Earth Music was great. They are really down to earth and enjoy what they do, which makes it a lot of fun to be a part of. As far as the first discussions for the album, it was basically conversations of what kinds of movies these tracks might be used for and they kind of let me run with it. They were looking for something epic and traditional, keeping away from the electronic influences. Sometimes as a composer the writing you initially start out with takes a different turn from where you thought the idea might be wanting to go, and I actually like that part of the process, you know, being able to let it go where it wants. There were some tweaks made here and there along the way that they knew would make it easier for editors to cut to.

You’ve written a lot of trailer tracks in your career, is this your first album that has been entirely composed by you?

Well I started working on trailer music just a couple of years ago. Before that I was doing music for TV and I wanted to branch out and challenge myself more. I always really enjoyed listening to epic music, and I think composers enjoy writing what they like to listen to. So it was a pretty natural next step for me. I started up my own personal project in 2009 so I could write the kind of trailer music I wanted to with complete freedom, and that was a lot of fun for me. ‘Immortality’ is the first full album outside of my own company that I’ve done.

What other projects have you been working on in the last 12 months?

I finished up a trailer music album called Divine Power for my own company this past year, and I’ve been working on my first film as well. I absolutely love writing film music and I feel extremely blessed to have the opportunity to open a new door to my career.

What does the future hold for Ryan Amon? Where would you like to go next?

I’d love to do films. It’s what got me into orchestral music in the first place, and I can’t think of anything more powerful than the marriage of music to picture… the whole storytelling process. I was a photography student in school, so getting to work with both of those mediums (the visual and aural) is the perfect fit for the way my brain works. I’m also looking forward to doing some more trailer music in the future, maybe pushing things outside the box a little bit. Most people who know me know that I’m a Christian, and that my faith inspires the music I write. So I’m open to whatever God has in store for me in the future. It took me a while to understand how being a composer can truly help others, like the profession of a doctor or teacher can. But I realized that we have the ability to inspire, and that is my goal for the future – to inspire people with the music I write.