Don Davis
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The Matrix: Original Motion Picture Score
Don Davis
Musically avant-garde elements have been utilized in film scores for decades, usually as shock elements to denote horror or the otherworldly. In recent times, modern composer Philip Glass has enjoyed varying degrees of success adapting his minimalist techniques to film scoring. Given that background, Don Davis’s powerful, innovative score to the Wachowski brothers’ 1999 sci-fi hit The Matrix has all the makings of a landmark. Utilizing his extensive interest and training in the avant-garde, Davis has composed what’s been touted as the first “New York…
