Clint Mansell on Scoring High-Rise

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It may come as a surprise to learn that Clint Mansell, the British composer behind such iconic scores as Requiem For a Dream, Black Swan and most recently Ben Wheatley's High-Rise, has had no formal musical training. A man whose motto is "feel, don't think", his path into music has been an instinctive one, dating back to his youth in the West Midlands where he would watch Nicolas Roeg films on the BBC and Westerns "with rollicking…