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Joseph Bishara (born July 26, 1970) is an American composer and actor, best known for his work scoring films such as ''Insidious'', ''11-11-11'', ''Dark Skies'', and ''The Conjuring''. Bishara has worked in several music production roles starting with the 1998 film ''Joseph's Gift''. He composes music for mainly horror films, and has worked several times with director James Wan. ==Life and career== Although Bishara's film score work began with the Biblical drama ''Joseph's Gift'' in 1998, most of his subsequent work has comprised horror films like ''Unearthed'' and ''The Gravedancers'' in 2006 and ''Night of the Demons'' in 2009. In addition to composing, he has worked in other aspects of film production, providing sound design services for John Carpenter's ''Ghosts of Mars'' and acting as music producer for ''Repo! The Genetic Opera''.〔Comerford 2011〕 He began to be the subject of more media attention with the James Wan film ''Insidious'' in 2011. ''The New York Times'' film critic Mike Hale remarked that Bishara's score helped the film recover from some of its negative attributes such as "pedestrian camerawork".〔Hale 2011〕 Writing for Howlin' Wolf Records, Jason Comerford referred to the score as a "dense, bristling effort jam-packed with invention and energy".〔Comerford 2011〕 The score was performed by a string quartet accompanied by Bishara producing sounds on a rusted piano using hammers, files, and other "experimental instruments" of his design. Much of the score was recorded before Wan began shooting the film, the musicians improvising some parts as they went along but following Bishara's broad structure and concept. Bishara began sending completed recordings to Wan as he was editing the film so Wan could work the score into the film according to the structure he desired. Though film score composers are typically more involved in music placement, Bishara noted the process used on ''Insidious'' felt "free".〔Comerford 2011〕 Bishara also acted in the film, portraying a demon that served as the film's main antagonist.〔Turek 2013〕 Bishara went on to score the Darren Lynn Bousman film ''11-11-11''. In 2013, Bishara worked with Scott Stewart to score the science fiction horror film ''Dark Skies''. Writing for ''Film Journal International'', Justin Lowe referred to the score as "unnerving" but suitably within the background of the action.〔Lowe 2013〕 He then reunited with director Wan to compose the score for ''The Conjuring''.〔Todd 2013〕 He also portrays an entity named Bathsheba in the film.〔Nelson 2013〕 Wan's producers gave him wide latitude to decide who he wanted to work with him on the film, so he brought back many of the crew from ''Insidious'', including Bishara.〔Todd 2013〕 Bishara scored the sequel to ''Insidious'', ''Insidious: Chapter 2'' (2013), but did not return to portray the demon.〔Barkan 2012〕 In 2014, Bishara scored the John R. Leonetti horror film ''Annabelle'', for which he received an ASCAP Top Box Office Films award.〔Nevins 2015〕 He next composed the score for a segment of the 2014 anthology film ''V/H/S: Viral'', "Gorgeous Vortex", as well as the James Wan production ''Insidious: Chapter 3'', and another horror film, ''The Vatican Tapes'', on which he replaced Mike Patton of Faith No More.〔Film Music Reporter 2014〕〔Barkan 2015〕 In 2015, Bishara helped produce the song "Shroud" on rapper Tech N9ne's album ''Special Effects''.〔Smith 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Bishara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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