Sound Score

This morning I read Walter Murch advise on soundscore and communicated it to Ismail in Karachi. Murch says that should have two major element, and then one minor, eveyrthing else, becomes too complicated, especially when overlayed with diaolgue and ambient sounds. "To put it another way, soundtrack should simuntaensouly give the audience a few of both the forest and the trees . . . clarity which comes through the feeling of inddividua elements (notes) and desnity, which comes form the feeling for the whole(the chord). I found this balance to occur most often when there were not quite three layers of something - my quotation law of two and a half"