{"id":362,"date":"2012-11-16T05:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=362"},"modified":"2013-04-25T07:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:15:29","slug":"yoav-goren-creating-the-epic-sound-of-immediate-musics-trailer-soundtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Yoav Goren: Creating the Epic Sound of Immediate Music&#8217;s Trailer Soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2128735\/height\/300\/width\/300\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For over 20 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/immediatemusic.com\/\" target=\"window\">Immediate Music<\/a> has provided various media outlets with music specifically designed for commercial use \u2013 more specifically, trailer soundtracks \u2013 and if the company\u2019s name or chief composer, Yoav Goren, don\u2019t ring a bell, the music is instantly recognizable.<\/p>\n<p>Goren\u2019s company, staffed with several composers, is known for a particularly epic sound \u2013 big orchestra and large choirs \u2013 and many of the cues are designed to provoke audiences using a mix of romanticism, rock, and liturgical harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re tailor-made for films with sweeping character sagas, plights of the disenfranchised, and historical tales where a pivotal battle decides the outcome of a people \/ a nation \/ or one really athletic hero capable of single-handedly bashing down an army of barbarians with just a sword and a love for a hot princess.<\/p>\n<p>On CD, Immediate\u2019s epic sound catalogue was previously available to companies via a 3-volume <strong>Themes for Orchestra and Choir<\/strong>. The collection included orchestral and mixed chorus tracks, downward &amp; upward spiraling cues, and a few main themes spun into varying levels of orchestral epic-ness so music editors could tailor the cues for their hero vs. barbarians trailer into a taut audio-video montage of dramatic peaks &amp; valleys with a giant cacophonic punchline.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s quickly evident is Goren\u2019s ability to grasp the core elements favoured by publicity departments. Some cuts are inspired by specific original soundtrack cues once appropriated by music editors for trailers (think \u201cBishop\u2019s Countdown\u201d from James Horner\u2019s <strong>Aliens<\/strong>), yet the Immediate house sound is distinct, which explains why it\u2019s influenced our perception of what constitutes <em>an epic movie soundtrack<\/em>: it\u2019s core is classical Hollywood, but the scope reflects audiences\u2019 contemporary expectations of what sonic elements ought to be inherent to an emotionally wrenching saga.<\/p>\n<p>The interest in Immediate\u2019s music inevitably resulted in a trio of CDs, branded <strong>Trailerhead<\/strong>, and for the release of the final volume \u2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/t2u\/CD_0400_TrailerheadTriumph.htm\">Trailerhead: Triumph<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5697\">M<\/a>] \u2013 I\u2019ve uploaded a lengthy podcast where Goren discusses his entry into trailer music, and his unique sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over 20 years, Immediate Music has provided various media outlets with music specifically designed for commercial use \u2013 more specifically, trailer soundtracks \u2013 and if the company\u2019s name or chief composer, Yoav Goren, don\u2019t ring a bell, the music is instantly recognizable. Goren\u2019s company, staffed with several composers, is known for a particularly epic sound \u2013 big orchestra and large choirs \u2013 and many of the cues are designed to provoke audiences using a mix of romanticism, rock, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,57,15],"tags":[93,92,91],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-liberated-syndication","category-podcast-interviews","tag-immediate-music","tag-trailer-music","tag-yoav-goren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}