Martin Thornton

Composer

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What I do: Composer, Sound Designer, Musical Director, Dubbing Mixer, Sound Consultant, Foley, Music Supervisor.
Company: Mosso Productions
Website: www.mosso.co.uk
Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: Logic Pro, GigaStudio, Sound Forge, Sibelius, ProTools, Vienna Symphonic Library.
Resources / Expertise: Composing, orchestrating, recording and producing music for use in film, theatre and TV.
Availability: Paid Work or Collaboration

Films I wish I had made: In The Mood For Love, Vertigo, The Double Life Of Veronique, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, E.T., Magnolia, Se7en, Lawrence Of Arabia, Seven Samurai.
I cried watching: Loads - My first offence was E.T.
Directors I love: Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Spielberg, Krzystof Kieslowski, Alfred Hitchcock, P.T. Anderson, David Lean.
Actors I admire: Since I'm a composer I'm going to use this section for my favourite film composers who are; John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, Zbigniew Preisner, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Thomas Newman, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino.
My desert island discs: John Williams - Star Wars Trilogy, Henryk Gorecki - 3rd Symphony, Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa, Aphex Twin - drukqs, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Claude Debussy - Clair de lune, John Adams - Harmonielehre, Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis.
Books I have given my friends: Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly, Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy, Albert Camus - The Outsider, Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness.
The best thing I own: A keen sense of drama.

Joined: 22/8/2002
Recent Bulletin Posts: 28/5/2009 Check Out Red Hood
21/4/2009 Re: Pirate Bay Founders sent to jail
27/2/2009 A: Music copyright
15/10/2008 A - Composer corner & copyrights
6/7/2008 Re: Did anyone tape Dispatches?
22/6/2007 Musicians Wanted (Paid, London)
17/4/2007 A-Logic Audio Problems
24/6/2005 A - Quicktime to AVI
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