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imponderable is such that any recipe in one or the other remains drastically impossible. That's why I only recommend one thing: be yourself and seek only excellence in your own scale of values. It is much, much more rewarding if you are successful, and more consoling on in case failure.
Later in your career you made film music composition in 1985 especially with the kiss of the spider woman a film of Héctor Babenco, starring William Hurt who won the Oscar for best actor. The film was the first independent film to be nominated in the category of Best Picture, Best director and best screenplay Are there any specificity in film music composition compared to the rest?
A huge: the soundtrack composer creates in regards somebody else creation, images of the movie director. The imagination of one depends on the imagination of the other. The film composer is hardly perceived as a full-fledged composer, apart from the case (very rare) of those whose fame as artist in their own name has managed to precede their job of composer of film music. This dependence can be frustrating for some
If you have made the synthesizer your main tool, you enjoy as well touching other instruments, have you ever tried to play all the instruments to compose music?
I play guitar, bass, percussion, vibraphone, melodica, flute, organ, acoustic piano of course, I've never limited myself indeed.
Have you ever had in your career people who didn’t believe in your potential? if so how did you handle these skeptics? as an African it has happened to you at least once in your career I'm sure?
Any new project has always been a risk-taking for those who proposed it to me, and the possibility that I am not at the level was always part of the equation, in my mind at least, whatever my precedent successes I could stand on. That's the beauty of our businesses. glories and fortunes are doing nothing, you're never sure of anything. But far from being a handicap, I have always found it rather a motivating challenge.
You touched on all styles of music, nowadays when you are given a project what decides you to take the challenge?
Too many things to be summarized in a response. Each case is specific and involves artistic elements, aesthetic, ethical, friendly, moral, social, family, financial, what do I know, of all types and in all combinations. But today, in truth, I devote myself to only one project: my trilogy is far from over
Speaking of the future since 2009 you have not published any solo work is there any hope to hear hope a new album of Wally Badarou in the future? do you have any projects you are working on these days, or are simply you simply continue your lecture in universities?
Since 2009, I do one thing: The slow and progressive release of "The Unnamed Trilogy", the equivalent of 3 CD, which only 5 titles are now available (online only), and whose " Colors of Silence "(limited release) was just a foretaste. I know, it is extremely slow, but only for the moment.
while closing this interview do you have any advice to give to those who are entering or an in this business already?
Yes, as I said. Stay yourself. What we praise on the greatest, beyond their genius is their authenticity. Talents, there are many around us. But when there is genius, it is revealed only by that.
Flashmag and its readership say thank you for this interview.
All the pleasure was mine
Interview by Hubert Marlin
Journalist
Flashmag October 2017 www.flashmag.net