The 73-year-old is happy writing and recording with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies.
John Carpenter just wants to jam. The legendary director behind “Halloween,” “The Thing,” “They Live” and more says he might helm another film. But for right now the 73-year-old is happy writing and recording with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies — with the pair, the elder Carpenter released “Lost Themes III: Alive After Death” this week. “You can be dressed in your pajamas and make music,” he told the Herald with a laugh. “Music, my God, making it is magic.” Carpenter spent many of his weekends as a high school and college student in the ’60s playing R&B, soul and rock tunes in a cover band (Carpenter’s dad was a music professor). When he started directing low-budget films in the ’70s, he scored them himself using synthesizers to save money. “With access to a synthesizer I could make myself sound somewhat bigger and more like an orchestra,” he said. “It was the sound of those babies, those synthesizers, that got me inspired.” Often referred to as a founding father of modern electronic music, Carpenter dismisses that idea.
