Episode 29: The Film Music of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Episode 29 marks Art of the Score’s first ever live episode, recorded in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Exploring the film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road), the live talk also preluded a concert later that week where the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra played Cave and Ellis’s music as arranged by our very own Nicholas Buc. Join us for a very special live episode as we try and find out what makes the film music of Cave and Ellis so good. Episode notes: 0:54 – A very special live episode 5:27 – The Nick Cave and Warren Ellis sound 6:26 – Alice Wading 7:58 – A band process for film music 10:34 – The Proposition 12:41 – The meat pie western 14:05 – The drone, the voice, the piano 18:05 – Nick’s singing (The Rider) 21:11 – Martha’s Dream 22:55 – The Cave Waltz 26:38 – The Rider Song 29:20 – The Assassination of Jesse James 31:26 – The celeste 35:14 – A Rather Lovely Thing 37:17 – An arresting chord progression 39:45 – The Assassination lullaby 41:54 – Song for Bob 45:14 – The Road 49:35 – The Mother 52:09 – The Far Road 54:49 – The House 58:07 – The ray of hope 59:49 – The Ellis Cave DNA We love to hear from our listeners – get in touch via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and if you like The Art of the Score, please take a moment to subscribe, rate and comment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Art of the Score, the podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games.
0:23.0	I'm Andrew Poxson.
0:24.2	And in each episode, we'll be joined by Daniel Golding and Nicholas Buck, as we check out a soundtrack we love, break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick, and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtrans.
0:39.3	Music and hopefully impart our love of the world of sound trends. In episode, In episode 29, we're responding to a huge number of requests from our listeners, and we're
1:01.1	bringing you a live recording of one of our recent talks for the Melbourne International
1:06.1	Film Festival.
1:07.5	The topic?
1:08.3	The film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, a talk that was accompanied
1:12.6	later that week by a set of four sold-out shows with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, along
1:17.6	with Nick and Warren themselves live on stage. For myself, it truly was a magical week of
1:23.6	collaboration and amazing music making. And Nick Cave and Warren Ellis couldn't have been more warm and genuine in their approach
1:30.5	to the concerts, both in their generous artistry, but also how wonderful they were to deal with
1:35.7	behind the scenes.
1:36.9	Truly a unicorn week of work.
1:39.7	We'll cross now to our live recording where Thomas Caldwell from MIF, a great friend of the podcast, will make the introductions.
1:47.0	Please enjoy.
1:52.0	Good evening, my name is Thomas Caudwell. I'm the programmer at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
1:58.0	And I'd like to begin by acknowledging that we're gathered on the traditional land of the Koola Nation,
2:03.6	and I pay my respect to their elders past and present.
2:07.6	Welcome to Art of the Score, the film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis,
2:12.6	a myth talks event that has been inspired by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's for upcoming film music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis concert events
2:21.3	that are happening later this week as part of MIF.
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