Frequency (2000)

Science fiction time travelling drama starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel as a father and son communicating through time over radio waves. 

Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, Score Co-Producer

Michael wrote a nearly wall-to-wall score and was called back for revisions a few weeks after the initial sessions had ended. He had to revise about one quarter of his score, along with recording multiple fixes and wild cues. Two of the major action sequences, the rescue scene at the beginning and the chase with the nightingale killer near the end of the movie, were scored by Michael (the latter even twice!) but largely dropped and replaced with additional music by J. Peter Robinson.

Film, New Line Cinema

Composed and Conducted by
Michael Kamen

Produced by
Michael Kamen and Christopher Brooks

Performed by
The L.A. All Star Orchestra

Orchestrations by
Michael Kamen, Robert Elhai, Blake Neely, Jonathan Sacks, Brad Warnaar, Peter Tomashek and Randy Kerber

Original Sessions

Recorded by
Joel Iwataki

Engineer
Dennis Sager

Assistant Engineers
Paul Wertheimer, Norm Dlugatch
and Dominic Gonzales

Revisions

Recorded by
Bobby Fernandez

Assistant Engineers
John Rodd, Tom Steel, Bill Talbott and
Damon Tedesco

Music Mixed by
Stephen McLaughlin

Assistant Mixing Engineer
Lee Manning

Music Editor
Christopher Brooks

Orchestra Contractors
The Music Team: Patti Zimmitti
and Debbie Datz-Pyle

Music Preparation
Joel Franklin, Lisa Donovan Lukas
and Eric Stonerook Music

Musical Assistants
Michael Price and James Brett

Original Sessions Recorded at
Paramount Pictures Scoring Stage “M”,
Los Angeles, February 2000

Revisions Recorded at
20th Century Fox - Newman Scoring - Stage One, Los Angeles, March 2000

Audio Clips

 

CUE LIST

Original Sessions

1M1 - Logo / Main Titles

1M2 Remix - The Accident

1M2 Alternate Mix

1M3 - Aurora Borealis

1M4 - John's Life

1M5 - Memories of Dad

1M5 Wild End

1M6 - The First Conversation

2M1 - Past and Future

2M2 - Crime Scene

2M3 - Remembering Frank

2M4/5 - The Second Conversation

2M4/5 p/u @34

2M6 - The Warehouse Fire

2M6 p/u @34

2M6 p/u @69

2M6 p/u @83

2M6 Insert

3M2 - Father and Son

3M2 Insert

3M2 Pt. 2 - Catching Up

3M3 - New Memories

3M4/5 - Repercussions

4M1/2/3 - Nightingale Murders

4M1/2/3 p/u @76

4M4 - Suspect and Victim

4M5 - Family Talk

4M6/7 - John & Gordo / The Next Victim

4M8 - Hunting the Nightingale

4M8 p/u @35

4M8 p/u @54

4M8 p/u (Bars 1-64)

4M8 p/u (Bars 53-59)

4M8 Wild

4M8 Wild p/u from 61

4M9 - The Wallet

4M9R (1)

5M0 - Fingerprints

5M1 - John Confronts Sheppard

5M1R

5M2 - Frank Arrested

5M3 - Under Suspicion

5M4 - The Escape

5M4 p/u @114

5M5 - The Chase

5M5 Wild Anvil

6M1/2 - Safe At Home

6M1/2 p/u @9

6M3 - Final Confrontation

6M3 p/u @51

6M3 Wild Top

Cluster Swell

Styrofoam Cup

Wild Harp

Wild Spring Can

Wild Superball Gong

Revisions

1M2 Alt End (Wild Chord)

1M2 End Figure

2M6 p/u @15

2M6 Wild Chord

2M6R Top

2M6R Insert

2M6X

4M4R

4M5R Overlay Bar 11

4M9R (2)

5M0R

5M1AR

5M2 Intro

5M3 (Bars 13 & 14)

5M4A

5M4A Faster

5M4B

5M5BR

5M5CR

6M1

6M2

6M2R

6M3A

6M3AR (Bars 2-5)

6M3AR (Bars 2-7 Wild)

6M3AR (Bars 10-21)

6M3AR (Bars 25-31)

6M3AR (Bars 34-36)

6M3AR (Bars 34-43)

6M3AR p/u @34

6M3AR p/u @36

6M3AR p/u @56

6M3A Percussion Only

6M3A Wild

6M3BR

6M3BR (Bars 1-33)

6M3BR p/u @33

End Hits

Low Cluster

Violin Hit

Wild Alumi-Phone

Wild Basses

Wild Bowed Cymbal

Wild Britten Duet

Wild Cymbal & Bass

Wild Diff Scrape

Wild High Bowed

Wild Moongong, Cymbal & Strings

Wild Percussion Roll & Orchestra Hit

Wild Scrape w/Choke

Wild Scraped Cymbals #1

Wild Scraped Cymbals #2

Wild Short Shots

Wild Strings

Wild Timp to Cly

Wild Timpani Solo

Wild Violin & Cymbal

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