Today I interviewed film composer Ady Cohen about his career in composing music for films and his inspirations.

RS: How did you get started as a film composer?

AC: First of all, the first was when I realized that this is my vocation in life. My goal, let’s say my purpose in life and this was a process that started when I was really young and I realized that whenever I see movies, I have a feeling for the music and I have a very strong sense of what is needed for a movie and what is the right music for a movie and I started to really get into that and this was a process. I will jump to the second start which is the actual start to my career in movies. It started when I was young but I was already in my late teens and I started to get involved with people into filmmaking and I was always into filmmaking. I was always interested in that from a young age. Not only music but also filmmaking by itself and it was something I loved and was into from a young age. So I started meeting some people who were serious about it. They were studying it. We first started working together. I would shoot their movies and we immediately started talking about music and then I got an offer from one of them who later became a professional film director to score his student movie. 

RS: And how do you go about making a composition? When you’re watching a film that they hired you to compose, how do you start from ground zero to the full composition? 

AC: That’s a very good question because there is a process which is really, really important to do that and that’s a process that’s somewhat différent than if I were just a composer who write music for music’s sake like a classical composer or a pop composer. Any composer who writes music just for themselves, in contrast with what  do which is to write for a film and the process is différent because composing is probably the same thing for all of those examples that I just mentioned but I think the first thing that is différent is the inspiration because if you write a symphony, many great composers wrote symphonies about their hometown, favorite ocean or something that happened to them or if you’re a pop composer, it’s about your love life. 

(Rest of interview is below)