So usually, when they figure out what I want to do is when they're hearing it for the first time.
I get a ton of freedom to decide where and when the music should go, and often I will make all those decisions and write all my first passes of the music before Justin and Dan even know where my head is at on an episode. I get to sort of figure out where the music should go myself and make those decisions myself. What has been different for you as a composer working on a show like Rick and Morty than for other shows?Įlder: I'm co-composer on Boss Baby: Back in Business on Netflix, and the process is very different for Rick and Morty. One of the things a lot of fans love about Rick and Morty is its spontaneity, and how sometimes the vocal tracks are finished after the first take - the voice actors have been riffing, and the riffing worked, and they kept it in. I think it works really well, and I think it was destined to be on Rick and Morty instead. We couldn't beat the champ, and it ended up on there. It just worked so well with the way they had built the animation for the pilot. We used that for this Dog World pitch that eventually went nowhere, and when we started working on Rick and Morty, we thought, "Hey, let's just throw some music on for now, and later we'll try to replace it." And we could never bring ourselves to take it off. He wanted something that was adventurous, and he referenced the Farscape theme song and Invader Zim and Doctor Who, and I kinda put all those in a blender and came up with something that I felt had a nice adventurous build to it, a sense of anticipation, and forward momentum. It was called Dog World, and I guess the elevator pitch would be "a planet where dogs evolved from men," but it was more kid-oriented. So, how did you come up with the show's main theme?Įlder: Interestingly enough, that main theme was written for another pilot that Justin Roiland and I were working on. I watched the original one when I was a kid, but I was really into the reboot and I'm a David Tennant guy.Ĭan you think of the Doctor that most reminds you of Rick?Įlder: Well, it's got to be Peter Capaldi, right? I mean, people always say Peter Capaldi could play Rick if they made a movie. I'm assuming you're referring to the main title theme.
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