One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
—Bob Marley
Music, when you think about it, makes up about seventy percent of entertainment. At least that’s how the old cliché goes as I learned it years ago as a young sound guy. Some well-known movie producers have weighed in on this subject. George Lucas, Academy Award winning creator of Star Wars, has said it’s fifty percent. Danny Boyle, director of Trance and other movies, says, “The truth is, for me, it’s obvious that 70, 80 percent of a movie is sound,” he says. “You don’t realize ...
