The X-Files Fan Retrospective: Mark Snow Interview
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- The X-Files Fan Retrospective: Mark Snow Interview
Mark Snow, composer and creator of the iconic X-Files sound, shares his memories during the series! Mark shares how the intro came to be, how Songs in they Key of X found its vocals, and how grateful he is for the unending X-Files Fandom and his message to the fans, "You guys are responsible for making my life what it is now."
Featuring interviews from over 90 members of The X-Files cast & crew, The X-Files Fan Retrospective explores the impact The X-Files has had on the pop culture landscape as well as the lasting impression on its fans. Rough-cut interviews are available on this RUclips channel for fans to enjoy while we work on the final project for the 30th anniversary!
Omg mark snow himself
Love you, Mark Snow. Thanks for the amazing music.
Mark is a delight, so personable and modest!
A really great interview with Mark Snow. Great to see he still has his Synclavier synth.
He is good at telling stories.
6:44 Oh Mark. Those “first few episodes” were actually very musical!” Not only was the atmospheric stuff actually quite musical, but there WERE cues here in there in those episodes that were obviously quite musical! I love his impression of the “vapor music” they said they wanted with the shhssswooshy wind sounds, because this totally explains why there was so much sort of swooooshy windy sound design in the Pilot ! 😂 it’s like he said “fine ok let’s start with the swooosy ambient bed stuff” and got bored so made it more musical anyway. Haha. But anyway he didn’t really do that again, and obviously this is why.
Compare this with NBC’s Hannibal. That does have musical stuff in it’s music as well, but that’s got a very interesting approach to it. In that it’s like they made a conscious choice to have like 98% music wall-to-wall. But you wouldn’t always recognize it as music. The music would sometimes bang and crash and make obviously accent sounds, but at times where most films/shows would have no music they would have always done kind of drone or ambient bed in there. BARELY even classifiable as music, but it provided a very dreamlike uneasy feeling. Where sometimes a sound would pop up and you’re like oh there’s music, but it’s quite natural because it never really stopped. Very occasionally they’d have scenes with no music, often to make some kind of point.
My point is that is much more atmospheric woodsy windy droney stuff like Mark sort of describes his direction. Marks atmospheric music was always more musical than truly atmospheric almost-but-is-it-music in Hannibal
Why not ask the guy about other cues than the theme?
Or the percussions used in much of the action music.
He could probably have said a lot about Scullys theme from season 8 or the beautiful theme from Christmas Carol.