Brad Fiedel

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Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951 in New York ) is an American film composer . Fiedel composed the music for almost 100 cinema and television films as well as for some television series.

life and work

He started playing the piano at the age of six. In the 1970s he accompanied the pop duo Hall & Oates on tours as a keyboardist . During this time he also began working as a composer for television and for smaller film productions.

His best-known work is the music for the films The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day by the Canadian director James Cameron . The music for Terminator was produced with synthesizers and an electronically amplified violin . This production method was partly due to the limited budget that no symphony orchestra allowed. Despite a much higher budget for Terminator 2 , Fiedel again produced the music for this film mostly electronically , this time with the help of samplers with which he digitized noises (e.g. from machines) and used them as sound material. With this production method, he went against the mainstream of orchestral film music , which he did not consider suitable for this film. He had to convince the initially skeptical Cameron of this.

Fiedel is married to the actress Ann Dusenberry and lives in Santa Barbara , California, where he is particularly involved in voluntary work for the local Waldorf school .

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SURNAME Fiddle, Brad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiddle, Brad Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH new York