But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
- Jim Coleman
Like, Devices, Scoring, My Self
First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
- Jim Coleman
Some, Cop, Mostly, Sonic
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
- Jim Coleman
Jazz, Dave, Oscar, Stan
I'm from all over the Northeast.
- Jim Coleman
Over, Northeast
I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.
- Jim Coleman
My Life, Some, Couple, Highs
I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
- Jim Coleman
Truck, Go, Some, Connecticut
I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
- Jim Coleman
New York, New, Outside, Connecticut
But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
- Jim Coleman
Melodies, Mostly, Sounds, La
When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.
- Jim Coleman
Thought, Doing, Mostly, La
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
- Jim Coleman
My Life, Think, I Think, Both Ways
I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.
- Jim Coleman
Cool, Think, Secret, None
So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
- Jim Coleman
World, Audience, Through, Potentially
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
- Jim Coleman
Some, Unbelievable, Mine, Hal
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
- Jim Coleman
Jazz, Horn, Took, French
Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.
- Jim Coleman
Piano, Take, Piano Lessons, Lessons
And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.
- Jim Coleman
Piano, Definitely, Affinity
With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.
- Jim Coleman
Mood, Through, Viewer, Fraternity
Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.
- Jim Coleman
Differences, Stimulating, Creatively
For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
- Jim Coleman
Doing, Been, Which, Electronica
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
- Jim Coleman
Making, Films, Film School, Leap
Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.
- Jim Coleman
Desires, However, Too, Unfortunately
And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.
- Jim Coleman
Pretty, Idea, Heading, Pretty Good
But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
- Jim Coleman
Alcohol, College, Amount, Massive
But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.
- Jim Coleman
Happen, Otherwise, Would, Collaboration
And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
- Jim Coleman
Working, Parts, Than, Sum
I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
- Jim Coleman
Think, Like, Still, Finest
If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.
- Jim Coleman
Now, Always, Hour, Finest
And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.
- Jim Coleman
Movies, Think, Scoring, Horror Movies
In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.
- Jim Coleman
Feels, Scoring, Sounds, Searching
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