Have you ever seen pictures of Thomas Edison’s engineering department? That’s a picture of the 2nd floor of building number 5. Do you suppose he was involved with the numerous people working there or just threw a bunch of college grads in and said, Have at it boys!
Hans Zimmer is an experimental composer/inventor. He has people creating sounds in numerous ways with sampling sessions of acoustic instruments, synth programming, and other traditional and non traditional sound creation. All at his direction and personal guidance. HE is directly in control of all of it. He needs several people just to catalogue the results.
You may be a huge fan of inefficiency but that’s because you haven’t dared to break barriers and limitations in order to further your art. You’re focusing on his process instead of the results. Results which justify it and not coincidentally, are entirely different - each time - as this film shows. Why is that? Because Hans is completely dominating the process. But who doesn’t know that? You only need two working ears to realize what a brilliant, unique, driven person it is that has devised a system recognized the world ‘round as one of the great achievements in creativity, technology and yes, organization, in a generation. Most importantly, he is one hell of a composer which is personally what I find most attractive in his music.