Anne Dudley
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"Anne Jennifer Valentino", better known as "Anne Dudley", is an English composer and pop musician. Dudley was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001.

Dudley has worked in both the European classical music/classical and pop genres, but she is perhaps best known as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and as a film composer.

In 1998, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she also served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables (2012 film)/Les Misérables, also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music.

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I think the thing about being a film composer is that you have to be pretty eclectic-be able to turn your hand to all sorts of different styles and genres and be familiar with the latest rhythms and the range of an obscure instrument.

The Art of Noise was in this suspended animation.

The greatest thing you can have when you compose a film score is a bit of time to think before you have to charge straight in and do it.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of choirs and the English pastoral music I used to hear when growing up. I was also inspired by the textures and rhythmic vitality of the so-called minimalists, Philip Glass and John Adams, and I'm always intrigued by the sound of the recording studio.

I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made.

It was only ironically by being in the Art of Noise that people started being interested in me to do film scores.

I like to start at the beginning and make the music develop in line with the drama developing. I've talked to other composers about this, and they don't all do it this way. Some people like to find the emotional center of it and work from the climax and then work backward and work forward, so I'm still experimenting with the actual way of doing it.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway-the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature-or you don't.