Because it should not just enhance emotion, it should help - this is my favorite sentence - things to bubble up to consciousness. It should help the sentences from scientists. It should really help you to get it. What does it mean to “get” something? Ask your own wonderful brain, what happens when you “get” something? It's like a synchronicity of things to get something.
So my whole thought was to help the people understand. Yes, maybe people could understand the words and repeat them 10 years later, but did they really get it? And you can understand something with your left brain or with your intuition. And I was more going for the intuition.
Herald - What kind of new tools did you have to create to compose for this particular subject?
Franke - The tools are very difficult to describe, because they change all the time. I just had to adjust my antenna to feel out if the music and writing worked or not. At one point. my intuition would say, ‘Yes, this music is really helping to understand what the scientists are talking about. The music was - in a way - “positive,” but it also should make you interested to listening precisely to what they're saying; it should encourage you to re-listen and to re-listen and to really echo it in your mind.
So my tool was my own interest in the movie. To really get very close to the subject matter and bring in my own intuition. In other words, the tool to score for that beautiful project was really to let my intuition do the job, to free my intuition. Because I did learn as much as the audience. I cannot say that the movie changed my life, but it definitely reconnected me to areas very familiar to artists when they create something new out of thin air, so to speak. Like a gray area [from which] slowly, and then suddenly something shapes into reality, manifested as an object, a song, a painting or a story. This is a wonderful process when that happens … it's like a very rewarding, sexy experience.
Herald - What did you learn from scoring these movies?
Franke - What I got back from doing this was … more self-consciousness. I could see my own compositional tools differently. I found the biggest learning experience from the movie is that “It's better to stay in the mystery than in the know.” I loved that.
People who are creative know this particular feeling - they just have a “hunch” they say. Intuition is already activated, and then out of intuition comes a very concrete “something.”
Did this always exist? No, you make it happen. You manifested it. People now use What the BLEEP!? for varied daily trivial things like pulling into the parking lot, and they just think, “I want a free parking space close to the entrance.” And then it's actually there. Next > 1 2 3 4
