Alf Clausen (geboren am 28. März 1941) ist ein erfolgreicher US-amerikanischer Komponist, Orchestrator und Arrangeur.
Er machte sich vor allem durch die Musikkompositionen für diverse Fernsehserien einen Namen.
Außerdem gewann er in seiner bisherigen Karriere einen Emmy und war bereits 9 mal für diese Auszeichnung nominiert.
Studierte Musik an der "North Dakota State University"
Studierte ebenfalls an der Bostoner "Berklee College of Music".
Wirkte am 1986er Kinofilm 'Ferris macht blau' mit
Komponierte ua. die Anfangsmelodien für Fernsehserien, wie:
- Moonlighting
- ALF
- Die Simpsons
Nachfolgend ein exklusives Statement, welches Alf Clausen in einem Interview mit einer Zeitschrift
im März 1997 gegeben hat. Mitunter erwähnt er den von ihm komponierten Song 'We Do' aus der
Simpsonsepisode #2F09 - Homer der Auserwählte.
Interviewer: How do you go about writing some of the source cues, the Stonecutter's song and things like that?
That's a very general question.
Alf Clausen: The procedure is that normally I will be given the script pages that have a lyric already written by one of the writers
on staff. They'll give me a couple of script pages ahead and a couple of script pages behind to what the set-up is and
where the scene is going. Then I'll have a conference with the writer and the producers as to what they feel the thrust
of the mood of the piece should be and what the intent should be.
Once they give me that, most of the time I'm fairly free to create however I want to create.
Like the Stonecutter's song, there was no model for that. That was strictly a direction of, "This is what the
scene is supposed to do and go for it." Other times there are parodies, as you are well aware, and I end
up having to do sideways versions of things. They're very specific about the parodies that they want to do,
and it becomes a little bit more difficult to figure out how to do that with paying homage to the piece that we're
doing the parody on, and still not using the piece that we're not allowed to use. So, it's a real challenge to do
each one of them.
Studierte Musik an der "North Dakota State University"
