One of the first things about Game of Thrones that took the world by storm was the opening credit sequence and instantly memorable theme song. even before people were talking about the Lannisters, the Starks, or that Sean Bean was beheaded before the first season ended (yeah, spoiler alert, that happens), they were talking about the music. Overnight Ramin Djawadi had made his career in the world of scoring television. But it took a few years before that fame in the niche world in which he worked leaked out into the rest of the world. By the time he did it again this year with Westworld, and the player piano opening, most people knew exactly who he was, if they weren’t listening to “The Light of The Seven” on repeat from the Game of Thrones Season 6 soundtrack.
Now Djawadi is set to gain the next level of fame, as he headlines the upcoming Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience, which is coming to cities around the US in 2017, starting in February. In a new interview with nerdist, Ramin Djawadi talks composing for Game of Thrones, working on Westworld, and the upcoming Live Concert Series next year.
Personally I think the Live Concert Series is the most ingenious idea Game of Thrones has come up with so far in the marketing department. The Harry potter Concert series, for example, is a huge hit and a way for parents to take kids to a old school classic music style concert without them getting bored. the thing is, most 20 and 30 somethings don’t go to those kinds of concerts anymore either–but showing sixty hours of the series while an orchestra plays, though probably one for the Guinness record books, is not practical on a touring schedule.
The other two videos are not embeddable (And that’s probably for the best because if all three started autoplaying at once in the same post I think I would run screaming), but you can head over to their site to see Djawadi talk about composing for Westworld vs Game of Thrones.
And now, kazoos.
You’re welcome America.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/12/08/ramin-djawadi-on-composing-for-got-and-the-concert-series-shell/
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