the cinematic orchestra to build a home piano sheet music

They pulled this little guitar out of the back room. Sampling a lot of old jazz records for rhythms and basslines, and film scores for string sections and electronics and weird sounds really. I suppose the inspiration on that first record, as I said, was like a homage to classics like Coltrane and Miles, Ella, Nina Simone and film composers like Bernard Herrmann, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, people like that. All of them have actually been cleared now but, yes, “Strange Fruit.” It just somehow seemed to fit into that piece of music I was writing at the time. There’s quite a few big samples on there and I’ve actually paid the price for sampling them, been caught a number of times.

On my first record, Motion, it’s kind of like homage.

When you started, one of the first pieces that you published as Cinematic Orchestra, you sampled a really big classic tragic milestone, “ Strange Fruit” from Nina Simone. It can be abstract, it can be pictorial, it can be image-based, it can be sonic, it can be sculptural, it can be 3-D, it can be something you touch, but it’s like … I don’t know how else to describe beauty apart from it’s something that’s from within. I think beauty is something that comes from the soul, from within. I was drawing frantically when I was five, six years old and playing music. Beauty … well, I studied visual art from a very young age.

It’s quite a very open and difficult question, that one. What’s your hold on that? Where does beauty in music originate from? Now, beauty is one of the most difficult terms in arts. We owe you some really nearly painfully beautiful pieces of music.

The cinematic orchestra to build a home piano sheet music