I was trying to create music that isn’t just cinematic as a description, but is literally cinematic.” “I wondered if there was something cool that I could make if I were to push both the songwriting aspect as well as the film composing aspect as part of the same package. But I didn’t start writing proper songs in terms of lyrics and melodies until high school.”įollowing an appearance on American Idol in his youth (an experience, Fry is quick to point out, that few people remember him for), it was some years down the line that Cody decided to meld his interest in cinematic composing with his songwriting. I’d potter around and make my own mini-songs.
But this thing was the size of a house! It used audio cards and that kind of stuff.”įry admits that this kind of technological access at a young age was akin to winning the lottery: “I was able to go into that room when my dad wasn’t using it. It was like an original iteration of a DAW. “My dad had a recording studio in the house growing up, with this amazing synth and sampling system called the Synclavier. He was in thrall to both his dad’s work and the sound of the big screen greats: “I loved John Williams and Hans Zimmer and all of the major players of film composing,” Cody explains. The son of world-renowned composer Gary Fry, Cody’s interest in music began as a child.
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