"The music I DIDN'T use" - Behind The Score with Abel Korzeniowski

The composer behind 'A Single Man' and 'Nocturnal Animals' tells us why less is more in his stylish score for the cult hit 'Emily'
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00:00 Welcome
00:36 'Teacher'
07:43 'Boundless'

[@luisgiron5986]

I don't understand how this composer doesn't make 3-4 movie scores every year. He is one of the most talented composer of the last decade. Completely underrated.

[@homeofcreation]

I agree I love his music and used some of it in TV shows I directed for Dutch TV. So my way of paying back through royalties.

[@_what._.]

Indeed. I discovered him very recently, and I very honestly think he's one of the most talented composers I have ever heard.

[@david.knights]

This type of behind-the-daw content with talent this good is all too rare. Thank you Spitfire. Please much more of this! Would love to get inside his score for Nocturnal Animals. One of my favourites!

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

I am an advocate of very minimalist DAW session, at the end of the day one does not need hundreds or thousands of tracks in a session, if the story can be told with just a handful of them. Also, as Abel showed, there are always ways to make the sound bigger with very few elements

[@salimbenaadjou]

I love how active Spitfire is!

[@dysharmony]

Incredible! Loved the part where Mr. Korzeniowski showed the muted parts that didn't make it to the final version of "Teacher". It really shows how important it is to take a few steps back and look at your work from a different perspective, even if subtracting particular elements seems counterintuitive at first.

[@RoyChartier]

Wow. This man is an absolute genius...if I do something 1% as inspired as this, I will consider myself successful.

[@jeramiahrossnz]

running virtual instruments and samplers back into real world spaces, pretty much like reamping into guitar amps and bass amps is a great win, i have used everything from the inside of a washing machine using a phone as playback and the bathroom, kitchen, car parks (big blue tooth speaker and xy mics) the fender blues amp and its nice spring reverb. The score here is wonderfully thought out, Abel has a very detailed approach to composing, really good watch.

[@terryb3204]

What a frickin' gift to have such a masterful, busy composer share his process and insights with us! Thank you Mr. Korzeniowski & Spitfire! So freeing to see even an experienced composer embrace experimentation, yet inspiring to see him severely cull to sculpt things down to the essence. When things are so spare, one notices every subtle shift in emotion & timing. Abel Korzeniowski is truly one of my all time favorite composers. I enjoyed the restrained tone of this... which is a departure from the many lavish highly dramatic scores he's done.

[@Supernaturlisch]

Thank you so much for this video! Abel Korzeniowski is truly one of my absolut favorite composers, so this was a treat!

[@bobfrode]

this is how less is more. perfect and beautiful to the scenes 😊

[@clog9608]

One of my favorite composers. Thanks a lot Spitfire.

[@t3br00k35]

Abel is a real composer.

[@GaganSinghMusic]

100%

[@myroslavsaratovkin6868]

It's brilliant. Just yesterday I was trying to find something about his approach after listening to that score, and today here it is. I am a huge fan of his music. Thank you for the opportunity to dive into minds of a brilliant composer.

[@michelechiavarini9218]

Brilliant composer with a calming nature. Very interesting indeed. Thank you SA!

[@nico_arn]

Thank you for taking the time to show your work process and share those great insights. It is a beautiful sounding score.

[@doubleohdutch2108]

Brilliant composer, brilliant videos. Spitfire libraries have a dedicated HDD in my setup.

[@davidsinclair699]

Incredible insights from an incredible composer. Thanks very much.

[@umrasangus]

I adore he is dressed so formally old fashioned. Goals!

[@mahdiblake8179]

I loved this score. Especially the violins in "demise"

[@thormusique]

This was excellent, thank you! It really is fascinating to hear composers speak about not only what works but what doesn't work when scoring a particular cue. Cheers!

[@alexhardie7215]

The score for this movie was perfection. I’m all in

[@JulianoPianoMusic]

Wonderful to see how he arranges his music!!

[@bartoszstepkowski]

This is a very good example of less is more, very interesting approach. Love the piano and organ in second clip. Pozdrawiam 😉

[@KyleOfTheNorth]

Love Abel, he's my favorite musician in the business. Thanks for the video.

[@pranicmusic]

This was absolutely stellar content! A reminder that simplifying scores makes for effective scores!

[@godfreycarmichael]

This guy makes great music. I love his work.

[@fleetingsound]

This was lovely. The insight with the organ was very fascinating and eye opening

[@gilesmoss5860]

That was fascinating, thank you Abel for your insight and Spitfire for the video.

[@davidkcarpenter]

Wonderful! Thank you for this beautiful video.

[@golafs]

wonderful video! great inside into his creative workflow! nice to see sparse cubase session:)

[@victornoagbodji]

This was very instructive! Thanks for sharing 😊🙏

[@User37717]

Very insightful, thank you 😊

[@gabrieletelesca6641]

Amazing masterclass! Thank you very much Spitfire Audio!!❤️🔥

[@dafingaz]

Incredible!

[@danielecohen2266]

great video! Thank you!

[@composingtips]

Thank you.

[@cristobalv]

Ost of the year!!

[@entelekhia]

Korzeniowski is a genius

[@m1xercom]

Beautiful work

[@jeffbernsteincomposer]

Excellent

[@ZachWirchak]

Such a great & inspiring video! Thank you for producing it!

[@JonAnderhub]

That's it? Please sir can I have more? Thank you that was very inciteful and I definitely would like to hear more about your process.

[@austinkeck]

So insightful! Thank you for this🙌🏻

[@kimseniorb]

I like this dude

[@kamilslaby_]

Proud of our Polish brother. Keep it up! Polska gurom

[@piotrhummel]

Super, dziękuję za tą lekcję : )

[@ewaszawul9308]

Czekamy!!!🥰🎶

[@ghisellini194]

complimenti!

[@NathanielPrinceCoulter]

Gold jerry gold

[@Trem.official]

Is there a way to find out which individual patches he used for the tracks?

[@casalmusic]

Creativity without artifice.

[@titanharmony747]

When is the spitfire movie coming out and who's doing the score.

[@soicheung133]

Which DAW he is using?

[@DepressedCapitalist]

As much as I love Abel's work and consider him to be a Class A composer, I find it incredible that the emotions that he tries to convey (defeat and disappointment at the very end for example) don't work for me. (ymmv) Specially in that last scene with that moving Phillip Glass kind of piano and the dissonances on top. A change of instrumentation and something sadder and ethereal would work better imo. And this is the beauty of film scoring, you can elicit emotions in many ways and there is never only one approach. Now, this is still a masterclass in terms of restraint and moderation and knowing when to stop adding layers of instruments to a scene.

[@dxntstress]

For Boundless at 9:35, what’s happening with all those time signature and tempo changes?

[@golafs]

anyone know what kind of keyboard he is using, that is the computer keyboard?

[@sugar-free-media]

It's a custom ortholinear keyboard based on Boardwalk.

[@golafs]

@@sugar-free-media ok, thx!

[@CastPola]

That FL studio update looks amazing...

[@kipchickensout]

the tick tock sound could've been alone at the beginning

[@g.p616]

Works in collar and tie!?

[@cyrus9912]

😀 promo sm.

[@bluebellbeatnik4945]

did think this was aaron sorkin

[@ingoodmusic]

r u trying to look like zanussi?

[@sebastienandre6674]

Thanks