For "Magnetic," a New York premiere, Ms. Dean has composed a dramatic synthesizer score.

And to complete the effect, there's a cheesy synthesizer score.

The music was a synthesizer score composed by Eric Siday (1905-1976), who also composed the score for the similar-sounding Screen Gems and CBS color programming logos.

Mostly, the picture looks and sounds like a public-access soap opera, with flat lighting, tinny dialogue and a loopy synthesizer score.

Then the player seems to be flying over cliffs and mountains, accompanied by a soaring synthesizer score and movie-style credits.

Composer Brad Fiedel also returned with another distinct synthesizer score.

He approaches the score with an electro-acoustic feel that dates back to the synthesizer scores of the '80s.

Musicians Jo Callis and Philip Adrian Wright created a synthesizer score to accompany the lyrics which was much harsher than the version that was actually released.

In early 2004, Piers Martin of NME wrote that Carpenter's minimalist synthesizer score accounted for much of the film's tense and menacing atmosphere and its "impact, 27 years on, is still being felt."