Editing The Terminator (section)

===Music===
{{Further|The Terminator (soundtrack)}}
The ''Terminator'' soundtrack was composed and performed on [[synthesizer]] by [[Brad Fiedel]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Bret|title=The Terminator: Overview|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r131972|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=September 19, 2010|work=AllMusic}}</ref> Fiedel was with the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, where a new agent, Beth Donahue, found that Cameron was working on ''The Terminator'' and sent him a cassette of Fiedel's music.<ref name="cos">{{cite magazine|last=Roffman|first=Michael|date=April 5, 2016|title=Stream + Interview: Brad Fiedel's The Terminator Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/04/stream-interview-brad-fiedel-the-terminator/|magazine=[[Consequence of Sound]]|access-date=April 18, 2016|archive-date=April 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417135018/http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/04/stream-interview-brad-fiedel-the-terminator/|url-status=live}}</ref> Fiedel was invited to a screening of the film with Cameron and Hurd.<ref name="cos" /> Hurd was not certain about having Fiedel compose the score, as he had only worked in television, not theatrical films.<ref name="cos" /> Fiedel convinced the two by showing them an experimental piece he had worked on, thinking that "You know, I'm going to play this for him because it's really dark and I think it's interesting for him." The song convinced Hurd and Cameron to hire him.<ref name="cos" />

Fiedel said his score reflected "a mechanical man and his heartbeat".<ref name="OV-Fiedel">{{cite AV media|title=Other Voices documentary|date=2001|people=Fiedel, Brad (composer)|work=The Terminator [Special Edition]|medium=DVD|publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]]}}</ref> Almost all the music was performed live.{{sfn|Keegan|2009|p=36}}<ref name="OV-Fiedel" /> ''The Terminator'' theme is used in the opening credits and appears in various points, such as a slowed version when Reese dies, and a piano version during the love scene.{{sfn|Hayward|2004|p=168}} It has been described as "haunting", with a "deceptively simple" melody<ref name="allmusic-review">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/the-terminator-mr0000843460|title=The Terminator – Brad Fiedel|publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]]|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=January 24, 2014|author=Adams, Brett|archive-date=May 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517110650/http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/the-terminator-mr0000843460|url-status=live}}</ref> recorded on a [[Prophet-10]] synthesizer.<ref name=":0" /> It is in the unusual [[time signature]] of {{music|time|13|16}}, which arose when Fiedel experimented with rhythms and accidentally created an incomplete loop on his [[Music sequencer|sequencer]]; Fiedel liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness".<ref name=":0">Seth Stevenson, "[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/the_time_signature_of_the_terminator_score_is_a_mystery_for_the_ages.single.html What Is the time signature of the ominous electronic score of ''The Terminator''?]" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226224247/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/the_time_signature_of_the_terminator_score_is_a_mystery_for_the_ages.single.html|date=February 26, 2014}}, ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', Published 26 February 2014, Accessed 27 February 2014.</ref> Fiedel created music for when Reese and Connor escape from the police station that would be appropriate for a "heroic moment". Cameron turned down this theme, as he believed it would lose the audience's excitement.<ref name="OV-Fiedel" />