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Salvatore Mallimo
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Salvatore Mallimo

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Hi Everyone! Excited to join. I've seen Mike's videos and am happy to have found this community with so many other creative people! Oct 27, 2022

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    1. Salvatore Mallimo
      Salvatore Mallimo
      Hi Everyone! Excited to join. I've seen Mike's videos and am happy to have found this community with so many other creative people!
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  • About

    Gender:
    Male
    Home Page:
    https://www.rainkingmusic.net
    Location:
    Montclair, NJ, USA
    Occupation:
    Composer/Pianist
    After spending over 20 years as a classical pianist I earned a Master's in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music and moved into the world of film music.

    As a pianist, I had a strong affinity for the 19th century Romantic style, and it fuels my work as a composer. Romantic ideology hinged on the interconnection of all the arts; it recognized images' innate stories (encompassing past, present, and future), music's ability to relay narratives and depict images, that narratives and their characters continued to live on past the end of a book, mirroring real life, in their own imaginary realm. Romantic artists of the 19th century believed in expressing all-encompassing ideas within small forms. Romantic artists of the 19th century believed in expressing all-encompassing ideas within small forms. They believed in the ability of limits to actually provide a means for infinite forms of artistic expression. In this way, art mirrored life; people have a finite time to live but can choose to experience that time in an infinite amount of ways. In short, art was a personal, life-altering, transcendental force that reflected the human experience.

    Ironically, as a film composer, this is what I do. I use music to tell a film's story, communicate its mood, its characters' thoughts and feelings, and evoke a scene. Most film cues are short in nature, so the belief that deep, complex ideas and emotions can be clearly expressed in small forms is one that is close to my heart.

    I write cues that could work in all film genres (high fantasy, horror/thriller, sci-fi, action adventure, drama, and comedy) as well as working with electronic media and creating sound design pieces. My favorite genres to work in are high fantasy, horror/thriller, sci-fi, and drama.

    As a listener, several of my favorite film composers are Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Dario Marianelli, Alan Silvestri, Patrick Doyle, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Harry Gregson-Williams, Ennio Morricone, Alexandre Desplat, Christopher Young, Jerry Goldsmith, and Hans Zimmer. Several of my favorite classical composers include Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Copland, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Ravel, Dvorak, and Rachmaninoff.

    Having grown up in the 80s and 90s, my interests in popular music are vast and cover many genres spanning the late 60s through today. They include classic rock, prog rock, 80s synth pop, 90s alternative and grunge, singer-songwriters over the last 50 or so years, contemporary alternative, and others. In some way, or another, all of these genres end up informing my writing.
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