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Composing Organ for Film

Brad Vogel is an Organ Performance Major at Baldwin Wallace University. Brad was kind enough to sit down with interviewer Tessa Louche to discuss his music career.

Tessa: So you’re an organ major. What is your secondary instrument?

Brad: Yes, I’m an organ performance major in addition to composition. My secondary is Piano.

T: What made you choose organ as your primary above piano?

B: Well, I was planning on piano until my junior year of high school. That’s when I started playing organ and I found out I really liked it. I took piano lessons from my church director, eventually asked if I could start taking organ lessons. Then I switched to just organ and I decided that that’s what I want to do.

T: Do you prefer pipe or digital organs?

B: Oh, pipe; the sound of electronics are never going to match up. It’s like playing a keyboard versus a real piano, it just fundamentally sounds better.

T: What’s your long-term career goal? Do you want to teach, perform, work on organs?

B: Ultimately, it’s hard to say, I can see a combination of all of that. What I really want is to make a career more on the composition side, specifically film composition.

T: Ah, okay – do you know what kind of films?

B: Any kind, really, I haven’t nailed down the specifics yet. I want to do movies, TV, possibly video games.

T: What made you consider a career in film composition? Are you a big movie buff?

B: Yeah, I like movies. Specifically, I like how music interacts with the theatrics.

T: It doesn’t pack the same punch.

B: Right. A movie isn’t a movie, really, without the music. I mean, it is, but it changes the viewer’s experience. I want to do that, change the viewer’s experience.

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