When I talk about music, I like to start by saying that music begins where words end.
Music carries in its essence something invisible, an emotional element.
You have to seek this element if you want music to set a mood or carry an emotion.
Close your eyes, watch a series or a TV show and see how music is part of the emotion you feel as a spectator or listener.
And when we talk about music in TV series for children, we have an advantage that is rather important, to see how children are obviously not yet in their analytical period, analyzing the musical structure, so they are receivers that are open to all possibilities, all trends.
What is fascinating when you look at the history of music, let's say TV series for children, is to understand the evolution, but also to understand the investment that stakeholders, such as actors, have in the production of music.
In both cinema and TV series for children, they use music that was already written; we could easily take something from classical music like an extract of symphony or sonata that was appropriate in the context of what we wanted to say.
When we got to the period that for me was the most fun, when we said "I might find someone who can mimic the action with music, who can craft the music I need to exactly get the emotion I want to express as a director at that very moment."
The composer arrived with ideas, opinions, and ways of expressing this invisible magic that is music.
The composer arrived with tools, instruments, music.
Today, computer-generated music is very important since a lot of people are now composing music in their home studio or at home, so we have music that is a little bit different.
What is impressive when you think about music, it’s how much a part of us it is, and how much it’s a part of our history, we could almost say a part of our genes.
And when you think about it, when we close our eyes for a bit, we immediately sense something like a taste, a flavour, a kind of impression that is inside of us at all times, maybe our childhood TV shows or an emotion that is related to them.
I think music is very personal and still very much inside of us, and hopefully, it will be for a long time.