Category: Collaborating

Above is a diagram displaying which sections of the film use music and noise, the longer sections have the most intense colours and are the sections with noise. The reason these scenes have been paired with noise rather than music is they are the most intense parts of the film, to pair that with noise…

Setting has reflected on “The Gurgle”, it is a reflection on how life within a city can make you feel, made by people who share these anxious, frantic feelings. My neighbour was a large inspiration to this film. He is a violent man who struggles with addiction and spends much of his time shouting on…

I recorded the foley and sound effects for this in my childhood home rather than in a studio, I wanted a rough around the edges selection of sounds for the film. The DIY sound is captured through the lack of acoustic treatment and the fact you can make out breathing and handling of the microphone…

During this process I have realised that short form film has limitations, I would prefer to work with long extended shots, to use boredom as a tool. It would excite me to work in a more spiritual style, with the focus being to make the audience contemplate. I would rather be working in beautiful rural…

There wasn’t a script for this project, I knew that I just wanted to go out and film and pick what felt right, I had a rough idea that I wanted a lot of walking. The time spent between one place and the next is often the times I feel the most anxious, thinking about…

Fellini’s 8 ½ uses sound and music as a way to tell the story, the Saraghina sequence would fail to represent the sensual pleasures of youth without the vibrant music that accompanies Saraghina’s dancing, the music provides information for the audience to decipher. The music is setting the tone for what the narrative is showing,…

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” The idea behind the film was about somebody who psychologically changes themself because they cannot cope with who they are, a literal dissonance in the characters brain, to include dissonance in the music felt right to me. I took…

The film begins with a young man sitting in a warm darkness smoking, writing a birthday card, it is left ambiguous as to who the birthday card is being written to, half of the man’s face is in shadow and pensive music is played with a high pitched droning, though it is night you can…

I have always been drawn to making noise and industrial sounds especially since moving into a city, the industrial sounds in this film reflect the intensity of urban soundscapes as well as time I’ve spent working with industrial equipment as a food production operative. I dislike the way harsh noise is used for long durations…

The ethereal sounds of wine glasses being vibrated have a dark history, referring to the glass armonica “Playing it is damaging to the health, that it excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood”.  To create the sound the wine glasses use the same…