blog 9 : Avatar Music

Composer James Horner will score the film, his third collaboration with Cameron after Aliens and Titanic. Horner recorded parts of the score with a small chorus singing in the alien language Na'vi in March 2008.He is also working with Wanda Bryant, an ethnomusicologist, to create a music culture for the alien race. James Horner composes a fine music score that has a fusion blend of both Oriental and the Occidental notes. From my past music knowledge I am able to come to the conclusion that the composer of the soundtracks for Avatar took various music groups into one. Two of the most striking ones where: Japanese and Western- Music. For the Navi people they had more of the Japanese tones such as tribal drums and high pitch flutes. Were as the human had a combination of orchestral music with vocals. One point I was able to notice from these soundtracks was that the Navi music had very few instruments and a lot of vocals; maybe due to the lack of technology for them wiliest, the human music was majorly instrumental especially electrical instruments such as guitar. Some of the other elements he has used was the Chinese chanting but in the Navi language. He used the same method related it the story line. But since I am not a expert at identifying the types of music cultures that were used but will say that he used the Western-Music with a mixture of different foreign music instrument to make a new genre for the navi people.