Composing with Emmy Award Winner Jim Dooley - 002

Jim Dooley is an Emmy Award-winning composer/songwriter with a
diverse repertoire spanning the film, television, video gaming
and live theatrical industries. He has earned accolades for his
solo work as well as proud collaborations with many of the top
names in music.


Jim is a graduate of New York University, and upon completion of
his degree, moved to Los Angeles to study the art of film
composing at USC with prolific scoring legends Christopher Young,
Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. He joined Media Ventures
(now Remote Control Productions) in 1999 and collaborated with
Hans Zimmer on DreamWorks’ “Gladiator” and as an additional
composer, arranger and orchestrator on Columbia Pictures’ “The Da
Vinci Code,” Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl,” DreamWorks’ “The Ring,” and many others. Two
projects featuring Jim’s music were also honored with Oscar
nominations.


In Television, Jim has written original music for shows on NBC,
ABC, FX, CW, and Lifetime and his music on the critically
acclaimed series, “Pushing Daisies,” won him the Primetime Emmy
Award for “Best Original Music Composition for a Series.”


In film, Jim composed has composed for many live action films,
and animated films such as “Madagascar,” “Madagascar 2,” and the
Penguins of “Madagascar.” the Oscar-winning “Wallace &
Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” and “Operation Got Your 6”
featuring First Lady Michelle Obama.


Jim’s expertise in other mediums can be found in the complex,
interactive scores for best-selling videogame titles such as
“Epic Mickey,” “Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes,” “Infamous”
and “SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy Seals,” “U.S. Navy Seals: Combined
Assault.”


Jim is currently scoring TNT’s hit drama “The Last Ship” with
collaborator James Levine. He recently emerged into the Sports
industry with his theme for the 2015 Senior PGA Championship,
heard on both NBC and the Golf Channel.


Some topics we discussed:


Jim's introduction to "Stairway to Heaven" and "Welcome Home
(Sanitarium)"


The percussion of Danny Elfman's "Nasty Habits"


Patelson's Music Store in Manhattan


The New York Times article "Cultivating the Art of Serendipity"


Ordering music from (and finally releasing
through) Varese Sarabande Records


The joy of handwritten takedowns


"You don't take as much ownership if you don't figure it out
yourself."


Playing a tragic Gladiator theme at Hans Zimmer's birthday party


How an expert swinging a golf club correctly is more difficult
than an expert playing a concerto 


Ideas from Oliver Sacks's "Musicophilia"


J.K. Rowling's commencement speech at Harvard about the
importance of failure



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