Timebox

To match the story and visuals of this experimental mind-bender, director Tate Young and I wanted a score that was just as aggressive, strange, and terrifying.  To give it an utterly unique sound, I put strict parameters on my approach:

I spent days recording power tools including reciprocating and circular saws, a disc sander, and a hammer drill, the sound of rosined fishing wire resonating the strings in my upright piano, used a violin bow to play pieces of metal I harvested from an old 1940 radio, made a pizza pan “gong” and plastic bin drums, and played, resonated, and otherwise abused all sorts of instruments, junk, and tools.  

The results were processed and the resulting score composed of these eerie, haunting, and often hideous sounds.

The whole adventure was captured by Tate, and is now a documentary that shows not only the strange process of scoring this film, but is also a look at the artistic process, the power of experimentation, and following your own vision down whatever path it leads.  The Music of Madness is coming soon to VOD.