{"id":148845,"date":"2011-10-11T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/keith-power-contributes-music-to-hit-tv-shows-and-action-movie-blockbusters\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:10:54","slug":"keith-power-contributes-music-to-hit-tv-shows-and-action-movie-blockbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/keith-power-contributes-music-to-hit-tv-shows-and-action-movie-blockbusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Power contributes music to hit TV shows and action-movie blockbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keith Power knows about deadlines.<\/p>\n

Last year Power provided 38 minutes of music for each of 24 episodes of\u00a0Hawaii Five-0<\/em>\u00a0(CBS\/Global)… and he had only four days per show to write it. \u201cThey want it to feel like a blockbuster movie, so there’s hardly a moment that\u2019s silent,\u201d Power says. Not only that, he was also scoring\u00a0Heartland<\/em>\u00a0(CBC\/CW) at the same time \u2013 an additional 16 minutes of music per show.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of music. It\u2019s also a lot of SOCAN royalty cheques:\u00a0Heartland<\/em>\u00a0enters its fifth season in September and currently airs in more than 20 countries. Hawaii Five-0, which is starting its second season in September, already airs in almost 50 countries. By 2014, it will air twice a day, five days a week.<\/p>\n

Power was born in a small town in Newfoundland 36 years ago and started writing \u201creally bad songs\u201d when he was about nine. \u201cComposing for me was making things up on the instruments I was learning,\u00a0\u00bb says the composer, who now plays piano, guitar, bass, percussion, flutes and whistles. \u00ab\u00a0Improvising came naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n

After four years in the jazz program at the University of Toronto, Power went to work for KEEN Music in Toronto, writing music for ads. \u201cOver the course of six years I wrote between 200 and 300 TV commercials,\u201d he says. But when he was asked to write music for The Gavin Crawford Show (which aired for three seasons on the Comedy Network), he knew immediately that this was what he really wanted to do. \u201cI bought all the film scores I could and basically taught myself,\u00a0\u00bb he recalls. \u00ab\u00a0I had a score by every composer in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Power moved to Los Angeles in 2004, cutting his teeth in Hollywood by working as a support composer\/arranger for more established composers. In the past 18 months alone he has contributed music to the scores of several blockbuster action movies, including\u00a0Fast Five, Iron Man 2, Battle: Los Angeles, The Expendables<\/em>, and\u00a0Predators<\/em>. Most recently Power \u2013 who occasionally writes music for video games, too \u2013 has created a full score for Replicas, a psychological thriller starring Selma Blair and Josh Close.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy passion is this magical collaborative process,\u201d says Power. \u201cThat\u2019s what drives me \u2013 waking up every morning to work with a team to bring a show to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

TRACK RECORD<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Power’s Celtic-flavoured music for A Shine of Rainbows (the film won several international awards) was nominated for Best Score at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2009.
\n\u2022 At press time, his most recent score was for the video game Dark Sector.
\n\u2022 He scored orchestral arrangements of Hawksley Workman songs for Workman\u2019s show with Symphony Nova Scotia in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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