{"id":13,"date":"2008-04-24T19:02:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-04-24T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T19:02:58","slug":"tell_me_something_steve_horowi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/04\/tell_me_something_steve_horowi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Something, Steve Horowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear kindly readers of this blog:<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Often I wonder what the hell people are thinking, and now that I have been empowered with my own personal “publish” button, I am going to start asking them directly and sharing the results with you. If there is anyone you’d particularly like to see grilled here, please drop me a line<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"horowitz_steve.jpg\"Steve<\/a>, you wrote the title song for Morgan Spurlock’s latest film Where in\u00c2\u00a0the World Is Osama Bin Laden?<\/span> It’s not every day that a composer gets to\u00c2\u00a0participate so directly in the war on terror–even in\u00c2\u00a0America. How was your tour of duty?<\/span><\/form>\n

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It was rough, but someone had to do it. Truth is, I was actually never\u00c2\u00a0asked to write a theme song. I was enlisted to write the incidental music.\u00c2\u00a0The plan was to use an army or orchestral musicians, 50 pieces or more. As\u00c2\u00a0I was putting together military strategy for that campaign, this little\u00c2\u00a0ditty shot into my head. So I went into the trenches with my FOLKFOOT\u00c2\u00a0comrades and recorded it. Sadly, the orchestral soundtrack did not make\u00c2\u00a0it, but the song survived. Gee, all this military terminology is kind of\u00c2\u00a0freaking me out!<\/p>\n

For this engagement, what was your compositional strategy?<\/span><\/p>\n

This song was for the hearts & minds. I wrote it on the subway. I suppose\u00c2\u00a0it is an homage to Woody Guthrie. A call for people around the world to\u00c2\u00a0once again hear Freedom’s call! Don’t let the media keep you from taking a\u00c2\u00a0stand.<\/p>\n

Do you feel you accomplished your mission?<\/span><\/p>\n

Creation is the mission. A musician can never fully gage the success for\u00c2\u00a0failure of a project they are involved in. I feel pretty good about it. I\u00c2\u00a0think it is a catchy tune.<\/p>\n

When you’re not fighting (at least musically) the Axis of Evil, I\u00c2\u00a0hear you’re helping Westley storm the castle. After working on the video\u00c2\u00a0game adaptation of the film The Princess Bride<\/span>, what would you say is\u00c2\u00a0good about video game composing these days?<\/span><\/p>\n

I love writing for games, it is an interactive process. I also love\u00c2\u00a0writing for animation, I think I have a knack for it. I love comic books &\u00c2\u00a0old cartoons, I love being part of a “new” medium that is constantly\u00c2\u00a0making up new rules and exploring new frontiers. But you know what the\u00c2\u00a0Best thing about game composition is these days? It’s the fact that I have\u00c2\u00a0been doing it long enough now (15 years) that I get to work with old\u00c2\u00a0friends a lot & they are constantly introducing me to new friends. “It’s\u00c2\u00a0the people, stupid”\u00c2\u00a0(me stupid, not you).<\/p>\n

Can you even watch movies and TV without obsessing over the\u00c2\u00a0soundtrack? I would think Lost<\/span> would drive a composer in your line a\u00c2\u00a0little nuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am lost all the time. The good thing is that I was a consumer long\u00c2\u00a0before I was a creator. I have no trouble suspending my musical\u00c2\u00a0dis-belief. It is really easy to forget the bad stuff, but when you hear\u00c2\u00a0the real deal…it sticks with you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear kindly readers of this blog:\u00c2\u00a0Often I wonder what the hell people are thinking, and now that I have been empowered with my own personal “publish” button, I am going to start asking them directly and sharing the results with you. If there is anyone you’d particularly like to see grilled here, please drop me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}