
And I've kept it through all three movies." So in the end I used a high bassoon, not too cliched but efficient, poke through the sound effects. What could I use that isn't too cliched?. "I was trying to find something that would cut through the sound effects.

The opening for the first film used to have the tune written for bass guitar," says the 43-year-old British-born veteran of Hollywood. First heard as the rogue espionage agent was found by fishermen floating in the Mediterranean in "The Bourne Identity" (2002), it only became an eerie, mournful bassoon solo because Powell couldn't make it heard over the sound effects of a storm otherwise. Listen, then, for what might be called Jason's theme.


"The music, he feels, is part of the character now" of Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon, "and I have to say it makes me very pleased - this has to be one of the greatest contributions a composer can feel he can make." Watch an audio slide show with John Powell's comments and music from the soundtrack » "And That was the first thing I got from Paul" Greengrass, the director of the film that went into wide release Friday in the United States, Powell says. Powell darts with Matt Damon through alleyways and over rooftops, calling this "pushing 'round the corner" - his term for making music that drives a tense scene right through the cinematic ceiling of a film like "Ultimatum."
