{"id":10755,"date":"2010-11-18T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:35:23","slug":"david-bell-composing-for-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/11\/david-bell-composing-for-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bell: Composing For Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working with the production staff on Star Trek<\/em> was a “dream-come-true” for composer David Bell<\/strong>, who wrote music for sixty-six episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> and Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bell’s work on Voyager <\/em>and Enterprise<\/em> led to four ASCAP awards between 1999 and 2002, with three of the four being awarded for his work on Voyager<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Beginning with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, Bell composed music for each of the Star Trek<\/em> spin-offs, and was initially brought onto the show to help out two composers who were already working for the series and who needed a bit of relief. “Dennis McCarthy<\/strong> and Jay Chattaway<\/strong> had been doing virtually all of the episodes of both DS9<\/em> then Voyager<\/em> – an enormous amount of work – and I think the production staff wanted to bring someone else in to pitch relief when needed,” said Bell. “Fortunately, it ended up being nine fantastic years of work for me.”<\/p>\n

Working on Star Trek<\/em> was satisfying for Bell and if he had it all to do over again, he would. “I think my style of writing, orchestration and dramatic sensibilities were a good fit for Star Trek<\/em>,” said Bell. “Also, the production staff on Star Trek<\/em> and Paramount music department made it a dream-come-true situation for me. It simply could not have been better! I was sorry to see it all end.”<\/p>\n

Bell’s most challenging Trek episode was Star Trek: Voyager’s Bride of Chaotica<\/em>. “It required writing in the usual Star Trek<\/em> musical vocabulary for portions of it, but other portions required writing in 1930s Flash Gordon<\/em> film music style,” explained Bell. “It involved a lot of music research, then putting a ton of notes on the page! I do my own orchestration most of the time and this one was a bear, but a blast to do.”<\/p>\n

In addition to his work on Star Trek<\/em>, Bell worked on other popular shows such as Murder, She Wrote <\/em>and In the Heat of the Nigh<\/em>t. In the interview at the referring site, Bell explains how he got into composing as well as his work on other shows, and answers a few questions submitted by TrekBBS<\/em> posters.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Justin Boggan<\/strong> for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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