Mark Snow

[Alexander Grodzinski]

Snow Files of the Week: "Trying to connect/True Feelings" aus dem Film "Private Fears in Public Places" (2006).

Ein Score wie geschaffen für verschneite Wintertage. Es war die erste Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mark und dem legendären französischen Regisseur Alain Resnais. Drei weitere Male arbeiteten sie noch zusammen, bevor Resnais Anfang 2014 leider verstarb.

Der Film erzählt die Geschichte verschiedener Menschen in Paris, die auf der Suche nach Liebe sind, jeder auf seine Weise. Die melancholische Stimmung des Filmes, in dem es ständig schneit, gab Mark die Gelegenheit einen seiner schönsten Scores zu schreiben. Beim Schnitt wurde der Film mit Musik aus "The X-Files" und "MillenniuM" unterlegt, weshalb es nicht weiter verwunderlich ist, dass es Ähnlichkeiten in Marks finalem Score gibt.

Ein Album mit der Musik wurde von BSX veröffentlicht, limitert auf 1.000 Stück.

Viel Spaß beim Hören!

 

[Alexander Grodzinski]

Marks langjähriger Music Editor Jeff Charbonneau, der auch immer wieder selbst Musik beisteuerte und zuletzt am Director's Cut von I WANT TO BELIEVE gearbeitet hat, ist nun leider auch verstorben. 

Jeff Charbonneau passed away last week, according to XFilesNews. He was the music editor for everything Ten Thirteen produced: #TheXFiles from the pilot all the way to the revival seasons; #Millennium; Harsh Realm; The Lone Gunmen; the two TXF movies; even Carter’s pilot for The After. The Vrach Frankenshteyn director’s cut was the last thing he worked on.

He was one of the foundations of all of Ten Thirteen and one of those figures behind the scenes that didn’t get a spotlight but were important. Our thoughts are with his family.

Jeff worked with the sound effects team and music mixer Larold Rebhun to balance music and sound, creating the shows’ unique atmospheres. A close collaborator of composer Mark Snow, who passed away last year, he edited Mark’s music into the episodes, did some arrangements and occasionally contributed with music himself.

Most memorably, he composed the music in 4X13: Never Again where Scully gets her tattoo (and found on La-La Land’s TXF Volume 4).

Just looking at his Ten Thirteen work, he won two Emmy Awards for sound editing for The X-Files and got nominated three more times, plus once for Millennium.

He also worked on many other shows, such as 24, Homeland (both with ex-TXF alumni Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, and Larold Rebhun), Love, Death + Robots… not to mention his film work: Dazed and Confused, Seven Years in Tibet…

Jeff had a rich background, well-travelled, studied film and anthropology, a performing musician and an acrobat, and was an accomplished photographer. Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French collaborated together on peculiar photography projects that I can only describe as surreal gothic fantasy by way of Jean Cocteau and the Quay Brothers. Below is a small selection of their work. Personally, I find them very enchanting and intriguing! See more at their website is Seven Sisters Asleep. https://www.sevensistersasleep.com/