Listen to (tracks from) the Tenants score!
2 Comments Published by Steven Friedman on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 12:16 PM.
As I've mentioned before, I like to score! By which I mean of course: compose music for moving images. The tagline under my name even says 'script, score and more', so every now and then, I think the 'score'-part should get the attention it so deserves. Last week, I finished the score for The Tenants. Took some blood, sweat and tears, but in all modesty, I think the end result is well worth the effort.Scoring a horror film is tricky business. The persistent action and tension offer a lot of possible music-cues - and while less will always be more, the temptation of putting a loud string-attack over a jump-scare always lures around the corner. And while that in itself is pretty impossible to avoid, I've still tried to find an original and unique musical 'tone'.
My main influences for this score were Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and (in no particular order) Howard Shore, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti and the weirdass - but brilliant - Croatian music project Kerovnian (check it out if you haven't already).
Of course, the music works best when it accompanies the images it was composed for, but I firmly believe that good film music should always tell its own story (rather than just underscore every single event in the movie), so it is with great pleasure that I hereby present several tracks from the score, for you to listen to.
Mind you, these are rendered straight out of my sequencer and aren't mixed down and finalized in any way, shape or form. With that out of the way, enjoy the tracks!
Opening Credits and Drive to the House
Daniel & Sarah
We Have to Go
They Cut the Power
No Way Out
Driving Away and End Credits
Sounds beautiful! I'd love to use it in one of my films. Can I, can I?
Mazzeltjes, Silvain
Sounds beautiful! I'd love to use it in one of my films. Can I, can I?
Mazzeltjes, Silvain