MAKING THE MUSIC OF HARPER'S GLOBE - Brandon Roberts

"History: Kevin Schlanser, the DP of Harper’s Globe, suggested me for the project originally. We had worked together on a previous film and I was brought in for a meeting with Music Supervisor Seth Jacobs, producer Matt Seigel, and, of course, director, Tony Valenzuela. Now, let me stress this was a very unique meeting that involved talking about feel, color, ambience, and tone more than specific music or examples. In fact, to Tony and Seth’s credit, they purposely kept me from hearing anything that might compromise what my original ideas and/or intuition might be. This turned out to be a VERY good thing as the score became an experiment in film composing that would not have worked had they been set on a specific genre.

From the very beginning, we agreed on a combination of acoustic instruments, synthesized elements, and a third musical character that would be best classified as “strange, weirdness, that you can’t quite put your finger on, but messes with your brain and makes you think of digital clicks, pops, and malfunctions until you feel rather uneasy and are not sure why.” Fine, all this was good, except many of these elements did not exist. Therefore, I spent about three weeks recording a variety of manipulated sounds ranging from tapping on metal shards to feeding back a guitar amp into another guitar amp. The irony is that all of this work was done to provide a tiny (yet essential) extra element to the score that would create that “off-kilter” feel. And obviously, as you have all seen by now, there are some very surreal, unsettling scenes that needed way more than just a traditional horror sting."

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