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Article: Individualists embrace the collective: Jon Brion, will.i.am, Jack White draw on producer chops to put egos on backburner.(ART OF COLLABORATION)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 18, 2008
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Nirvana, for any film music exec, is that serendipitous moment when a musician's signature sound resonates with a story onscreen. However, given the eleventh-hour demands of film scoring, not to mention the studios' boardroom work ethic, some gifted artists prefer to operate within their own head space and, as Jack White explains, "Keep their sanity."
"I've seen a lot of my performer and songwriter friends have a difficult time," observes Jon Brion, who wrote the score for Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York. "They have the creative gene, but they aren't natural collaborators. They're not used to anyone saying, 'Can you trim ...