'X-Files' Composer Named Snow

Snow had previously scored detective shows, drama series, comedies and TV movies. He was born Martin Fulterman in Brooklyn just after World War II, and graduated from Juilliard. There, the young drummer co-founded a band with his friend and fellow composer Michael Kamen called New York Rock & Roll Ensemble.
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Snow listened to everything Carter sent him, but eventually he had more luck just monkeying around. One day, he set his elbow down on his keyboard while an echo delay effect was on — and he liked how it sounded. "So I thought, well, that's a nice little accompaniment figure," he says. "What could be the other parts of it?"

For the melody itself, he tried synthesized violin, flute and piano, but none of them were right. Then, he found a whistle sound — an old sample from the Proteus line of synth products called "Whistling Joe." Snow says when his wife, Glynn, asked about the whistle sound, he told her he was just fooling around with the new theme. She found it interesting.
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