My upcoming Silent River score is very different for me...

My upcoming Silent River score is very different for me and a departure from many of my last scores. No Being Rose country here. A lot more experimentation and invention of sounds at the root of this score. A lot of these sounds started as samples taken from Emil Richard's well worn Pianotron that now resides up at L.A. Percussion & Backline Rentals. Many of those sounds in the score were subsequently manipulated, stretched, and crafted into textures and sounds I could then use throughout the film cues. I talked about that Pianotron recording session here last July.

In additional to all of that, I also used a Leaf Audio Microphonic Sounbox mkII. There is a mechanical nature to these sounds and that was my intent. To blend those machine like sounds with the more human characters of the film, I also hired a couple of the best soloists I could find to feature with Phil O'Conner on clarinet and bass clarinet and Andrew Duckles on viola. The end result is a score on the darker side for this atypical Sci-Fi drama that I can't wait for you all out there to see it come together. In the mean time, with the director's blessing, here is one little snippet of the score's result combined with what it looks like when I blindly stare at the mixing board creating my stems...trying to not have any audio peaks. Think of it like a screen saver with music.