Answers and Inspiraton from the "Mind Heist" Composer

[Modus]

His name is Zack Hemsey, kind of a squirrelly little dude. In this video he explains how he made it, how he comes up with his music, and how he grew as a (digital) composer. Answered a lot of lingering questions for me.. I think you'll enjoy.

http://vimeo.com/21339058

P.S. Mind Heist is that shit-awesome theme from Inception.

[mickomoo]

I'm still waiting for him to release redemption from the Town trailer...

[Dissidia]

Cool guy. Nothing really new interview-wise, but still fun to watch.

[Modus]

See, I had thought Mind Heist was orchestrated but watching this found out he's a digital composer. That's the main reason I wanted to share.Plus he talks about his "phases" as a musician... turns out he sucked and thought he was good at one time, a phase many of us are in the middle of

[Dissidia]

Oh I see, it does give the impression of being orchestrated. I didn't quite understand one thing though, did he say he only uses his keyboard and mouse?

Everyone has a suck phase unless he/she is a genius.

I have all my old songs since I started making music, and boy, my first song is not very good. At the time I think I thought was. Now, I don't really make assumptions what other think about my songs, I just take as it comes, of course I am very happy if people like it.

[Modus]

I didn't quite understand one thing though, did he say he only uses his keyboard and mouse?

It was a little ambiguous when he said he made "keyboard-only" arrangements early on, but I got the impression that he does completely rely on sound libraries, which is encouraging for those of us who have little to no "real musical instrument" background.