Marco on Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Hollywood Reporter)'Director Tommy Lee Jones wanted to explore different sounds and bring a perspective to the film (and) a personality; something rather than it being wallpaper. He said he didn't want strings, but I ended up using strings — I used a string quintet. But I used the quintet mainly in a percussive way, not in a lyrical way.
There are very few lyrical things about the score. In the end, I used an eclectic ensemble. "There are two main aspects to the film: one was this friendship between Tommy Lee Jones' character and his friend, who's killed; the other is the landscape itself.
"To me, the landscape was a holistic place that had to be treated organically, and the music had to represent the feeling of the land. Some of the instruments used to achieve this feeling were Indian drums and ethnic Indian flutes. One scene, in particular, comes to mind, where the border patrol (character) …escapes, and he's running through the desert. The obvious music had to be chase music, but I resented the idea of writing chase music like you would see in an action movie. Thankfully, Tommy supported me in not going that route, so we took an accordion, guitar and … ended up exploring other sides of them and creating a texture that would naturally evolve out of the picture. Hopefully, it does.
"Aside from the way I used the instruments, I did some eclectic percussive stuff. One of the things that's common in the score is, I used this cactus that is only found in this region in Southern Texas. The needles of the cactus are actually plucked, and they give off a hollow pitch. My assistant and I recorded and sampled the needles, then actually used the sound of the cactus to create percussive loops and beds for the score.
"The one thing Tommy didn't want was to be sitting on his horse, going through the desert, and it becoming a Sergio Leone landscape. This movie is strongly routed in friendship, among other things. As such, it was a unique story that required unique music, so you couldn't conjure up images of other movies. It wasn't supposed to be derivative."
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