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| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
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| POSTED Tuesday, March 11, 2003 06:55:03 PM |
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Here's an excerpt from the composer interview:
Sunday Herald Sun
August 17, 2003
Iva Shows his colours
A film soundtrack offer stunned Iva Davies
It has been a while between drinks, but 20 years after scoring his first film, Icehouse frontman Iva Davies has written the music for a second motion picture.
The wait however has been well worth it.
Davies, a classically trained musician, who during a rock career stretching well past two decades scaled the upper echelons of the music charts, has recently completed the score for Russell Crowe's latest film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
The offer to create the soundtrack for director Peter Weir's multi-million-dollar picture came completely out of the blue, Davies said.
"If you had told me this time last year that I would spend three months in Hollywood working on a major motion picture, I would have laughed at you," he said.
"I have only ever written one film sound track - Razorback for Russell Mulchay, who was doing a lot of music videos at the time - about 20 years ago.
"I literally received s phone call at home (in Sydney) from Peter Weir, who was on location in Mexico, asking me to compose the film's score. I had to dust myself off. It was one of those moments.
"When you think of all the musicians in the world who he could have asked to do this, it is completely surreal to think I got the call."
While the pair had never worked together, Weir was apparently an
admirer of Davies' work.
"He was using Richard Tognetti as Russell Crowe's violin coach. I had worked with Richard on a Millennium piece. Peter was in Sydney for the Millennium celebrations and had seen that piece performed. He liked it and that is apparently how all this came about," Davies explained.
Davies was in Melbourne this week at the L'Oreal Colour Trophy, where he made a rare stage appearance performing his signature tune Man of Colours.
Getting Davies to take part in the night was something of a coup for organisers. During his touring days Davies was synonymous with hair, having been the owner of one of the more extreme, yet lustrous, mullets of the '80s.
By his own admission, he now prefers studio work as opposed to live
performances.
"The last proper tour I did was in 1993. I've really only done a handful of performances since then," he said. "I'm very happy in the studio. It is my preferred environment really."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." |
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