German - Composer | July 19, 1974 -
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.
Ramin Djawadi
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I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.
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Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn't know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.
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We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.
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I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.
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Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
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At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.
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I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.
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I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.
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Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.
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I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.
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I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.
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