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August 13th 2008 17:10
If Magazine sat down with composer Mark Snow to talk about how the recent X-files soundtrack is both different and the same as the series. Highlights below. 
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Can I just say, I love this soundtrack? So beautiful and ambient, and intensely personal, it actually made me cry the first time I listened to it! The whistling theme at the end of "Home Again" is perfect. Definitely worth a listen! Click HERE to buy the soundtrack.
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iF: Does the chanting in "Girl in Box" actually mean anything?
SNOW: Actually that is one of my special choral samples I used. I found a chorus a few years back and had them sing made up Latin words. In the movie I reversed it; I played it backwards and it has a very eerie sound to it. It just is another example of trying to bring in perhaps another weird, spiritual sound to all that is going on.
SNOW: Actually that is one of my special choral samples I used. I found a chorus a few years back and had them sing made up Latin words. In the movie I reversed it; I played it backwards and it has a very eerie sound to it. It just is another example of trying to bring in perhaps another weird, spiritual sound to all that is going on.
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iF: Another highlight of the score is "The Surgery," which employs some beautiful cello playing. Why inspired you to use this instrument?
SNOW: I thought the cello, in the high register, is most beautiful and expressive. It has a very, very emotional sound. Composers throughout the years have used it to depict very intense emotional goings on. During the surgery scene, since it involves a child, I thought the solo qualities of the cello working with the alienated boy going would be a good mix.
SNOW: I thought the cello, in the high register, is most beautiful and expressive. It has a very, very emotional sound. Composers throughout the years have used it to depict very intense emotional goings on. During the surgery scene, since it involves a child, I thought the solo qualities of the cello working with the alienated boy going would be a good mix.
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iF: This seems to be a more melodic and emotional score than your last X-FILES movie. Would you agree?
SNOW: Yes, absolutely. That is because in the story the relationship with Scully and Mulder has become much more intimate. That gives me more of an opportunity to actually play perhaps a more classical love scene than I would have ever had a chance to do in any of the previous shows with them.
SNOW: Yes, absolutely. That is because in the story the relationship with Scully and Mulder has become much more intimate. That gives me more of an opportunity to actually play perhaps a more classical love scene than I would have ever had a chance to do in any of the previous shows with them.
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iF: Would you say this is your most "hopeful" X-FILES score?
SNOW: Certainly. Especially the last piece of music in this film, which is this very, very hopeful “almost” love theme for Mulder and Scully. The whole orchestra finally resolves on this wonderful full major chord, and we bring in, for perhaps for the last time, the famous whistle theme of THE X-FILES. It was very emotional for me when I was doing it, thinking that this will possibly be the last time that it is heard. My wife did the whistling as well, which is the first time we’ve ever had a live person do the whistling theme.
SNOW: Certainly. Especially the last piece of music in this film, which is this very, very hopeful “almost” love theme for Mulder and Scully. The whole orchestra finally resolves on this wonderful full major chord, and we bring in, for perhaps for the last time, the famous whistle theme of THE X-FILES. It was very emotional for me when I was doing it, thinking that this will possibly be the last time that it is heard. My wife did the whistling as well, which is the first time we’ve ever had a live person do the whistling theme.
Can I just say, I love this soundtrack? So beautiful and ambient, and intensely personal, it actually made me cry the first time I listened to it! The whistling theme at the end of "Home Again" is perfect. Definitely worth a listen! Click HERE to buy the soundtrack.
*View the entire article HERE.
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