Bear McCreary spielt "Caprica"-Theme in Hagen

Bear McCreary gibt den Usern der Webseite Caprica-City.de einen exklusiven Vorgeschmack auf die Titelmelodie von "Caprica".

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Here you'll see an exclusive preview of "Caprica"s main theme. Bear was nice enough to play it for our readers, the users of caprica-city.de.

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Here's what Bear had to say about his music for "Caprica". Please visit Caprica-City.de for our complete interview:
http://www.caprica-city.de/index.php?seite=artikel&aktion=show&ID=123 (German)
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Bear McCreary: "Battlestar", you have to remember, musically started out very simple. There were no character themes, in fact I was told not to have character themes. "Caprica" is very different because at this point, the producers know me well and they are more open to ideas. The score to "Caprica" in general is simpler, much more western. It's much more classical. I think I wanted to do something different and ultimately I was faced with this question, what is different than "Battlestar Galactica"?

Well, in "Battlestar Galactica" there is a lot of ethnic music, it's music from every continent, with instruments from throughout human history. It covered a lot of bases. What could I possibly use on "Caprica" that I haven't used on "Battlestar"? That's when it occurred to me, the way to make "Caprica" different is to make it more normal, really. "Caprica" should not sound so weird, more like what we are used to hear in film and TV.

And there's also a benefit to that. "Caprica" takes place before the apocalypse, not afterwards. In many ways, this event in the "Battlestar" miniseries, it kind of hits the reset switch. We've gone from this society to this rag tag fleet. The tribal drums and this ethnic instruments felt very appropriate. "Caprica" is very different, our society is refined and polished and the infrastructure exists. It's totally different. The music is more baroque, almost. It's not actually baroque in style, but it feels more constructed and more western, more symphonic. It felt appropriate.

And then, of course, this also gives me a place to go because should the series live on for multiple seasons, we know how it ends, where the series goes. The neat thing is, it gives me the opportunity to slowly evolve the score so that it becomes more like "Battlestar" the closer we get to the nuclear holocaust it ends with, or presumably ends with.

So I think people will hear that it sounds very different. There are also some musical nods to "Battlestar". I think people will recognize that it's me writing it. But as you can hear from that little snippet, it is a sad tone. It's also very lyrical like the piece that I just played to you. In "Caprica" I'm much more direct than in "Battlestar". The emotions are, at least in the beginning, more direct, a little more obvious, simpler.

Tonally the show is quite similar to "Battlestar". The characters are very dark, very conflicted and so it's the music that's a little different. More traditionally actually. I think people assume that I'm "Mr. Taiko Drum" will be surprised. I mean, I don't find it surprising because when you watch "Battlestar Galactica" carefully, you'll hear that there's a lot of very different orchestral inspired pieces in there. But I think a lot of people that assume that I just do taiko drum battle music are going to be surprised. We'll see.

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[cjcookie]

really curious: where is he?

[lexspartan]

@cjcookie You mean where this video was shot? In a German town called Hagen (North Rhine-Westphalia). He was there visiting a ballet premiere that used his BSG music.

[ToBiOh2]

@lexspartan I am from Germany. Do you know the name of the ballet? I would really like to see it...

[lexspartan]

@ToBiOh2 Hi! The name was Three Faces, but it was only for two weeks. You can find a ton of information about the show on caprica-city.de

[lexspartan]

Sorry guys, I accidentally deleted some comments I didn't want to delete.

[ISAFWolf]

I love Bear McCreary for there is alot of Philip Glass influences in there, and he takes that minimilistic style and makes his own. HIs cover of All along the Watchtower amazing

[Vik456]

R.I.P CAPRICA.. BEST THING EVER TO HAPPEN TO "SELLOUT TO WWE" SYFY..

[ateaherb]

Amazing

[xyhmo]

He must have been like 11 years old or something at the beginning of Battlestar. :)

[This1sS0Stup1d]

Bear is one of the most brilliant composers of our time.

[the81kid]

The music was the best thing in Caprica. Eric Stoltz was good too.

[oracularowl]

I love this man's music.

[OACYLU]

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[CatsRuleDogsAreTards]

Sounds like something out of Dollhouse.

[Bigjonmetal]

I wish this them had a full version.