Scott Giles
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Location | PORTLAND, OR, United States |
| Introduction | Composer, Conductor, Writer, Artist, and all around good guy! |
| Interests | Composing music, Writing, Film, Photography, Teaching, Playing Piano, Strings and Clarinet, Chess, Painting, Drawing, Literature, Language, Religion, Philosophy, History, Military History, Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy, Mathematics, Science, Aerospace, UFOlogy, Astronomy, my hometown of Monroe MI, the history of the Sacramento Valley, Paranormal Sciences, Architecture. Advancing Our Culture. ...I'D RATHER WORK THAN RELAX... I'm not kidding!!! |
| Favorite movies | I want to write music for film! Favorite films: Star Wars, Casablanca, Apocolypse Now, Alien, The Thin Man movies, (I want to be William Powell when I grow up), Metropolis, Pulp Fiction, Star Trek 6, Now Voyager, Kill Bill, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Soylent Green, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, The Puppy's Great Adventure, anything Akira Kurosawa, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Planet of the Apes (1968), 2001 A Space Odyssey, Evolution, Chaplin, Pandora's Box, The Wind(1928), Once at a Border: The Life of Igor Stravinsky, Jaws. |
| Favorite music | THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PIECES AND FOLKS THAT HAVE MOST INFLUENCED MY WORK - Sibelius: Symphony 4, Bruckner: Symphony 5 and 9, Ravel: Alborada Del Gracioso, Scriabin: White Mass, Leonard Bernstein: Kaddish, Mahler: Symphony 1 and 9, Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, George Gershwin: Concerto In F; The Doors: Break on Through, Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, and just about anything by Bach, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Hector Berlioz, Jerry Goldsmith, (God Bless Jerry Goldsmith!), Charlie Parker, Kurt Weill, Bela Bartok and Bernard Herrmann. Oh, and John Williams. |
| Favorite books | War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells), Moby Dick (Herman Melville), Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), A Farewell To Arms (Ernest Hemmingway), The Meditations of Marcus Aurilius (Marcus Aurilius), Ordeal and Triumph (Ladislas Fargo), The Art of Quartet Playing - The Gueneri Quartet in Coversation With Robert Blum, Theory of Harmony (Arnold Schoenberg). Favourite Science Fiction Writers: Issac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury. |