multisonic » music http://www.mikezaleski.com/multisonic Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:59:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 the music of “up” http://www.mikezaleski.com/multisonic/2009/06/16/the-music-of-up/ http://www.mikezaleski.com/multisonic/2009/06/16/the-music-of-up/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:54:00 +0000 Mike http://www.mikezaleski.com/multisonic/?p=721 As you might have heard, UP is a real tearjearker of a movie (animated or otherwise). It’s beautifully animated and the storytelling – especially the first ten minutes or so – is exquisite. What really holds it all together is the score by Michael Giacchino. His music has all of the emotion and personality of another character, with some similarities in style to John Williams or James Horner in the use of a recurring main theme and true, period sound. It is totally unfair to Giacchino to compare him to those two, or any other, composer(s) because the work stands on its own.

Take a listen to the two tracks below. The first, “married life”, is a short sequence through which we follow a couple from courtship through their later years – my favorite. The other, “up with end credits”, is a medley of the various themes in the film.

Married Life:

Up with End Credits:

This soundtrack marks a departure for Disney that others are likely to follow – it did not have a physical cd release, only a digital release online. I’m totally behind this idea if it means we’ll get albums released that might have otherwise gotten shelved. I do hope that they’ll make some gains in the audio quality of the digital downloads so that we’ll be able to maintain that pure, uncompressed sound that a cd (often) offers. Otherwise, bring it on.

The UP Soundtrack

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Don’t feel like you have to listen, but here are a few (early) tunes to get you in the holiday mood.

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this time, they did it live, at the mtv video music awards. they make me wish i wasn’t afraid of treadmills.

[via youtube]

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you’ve probably seen it, but let’s all turn our attention to the video for “here it goes again” by ok go. before we begin, let’s do a little math: four guys + eight treadmills = one hell of a time.

[via youtube]

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