Was the music created after the images, or did it grow alongside the film?
In this case, the music actually came before the images. By choice, I decided to follow a predetermined method. I spoke with the director, asking about the story, the atmosphere she wanted to create, and where she imagined music might be needed. She gave me some guidelines, and from there I just started and immediately found my direction. When I entered the recording studio, I didn’t have any specific idea in mind. I improvised the soundtrack on the spot, focusing on sounds I liked and that felt right for the film. I created several tracks, and then left it to the director to decide what was truly useful and where to place the material I had improvised.
When does the music come in and when did you choose to let silence speak?
Those choices were made by the director and the editor, according to their vision.
Does your music accompany the images, guide them, or create a relationship with the viewer?
Since I didn’t compose it based on the images, but rather on suggestions and impressions, I think the music can exist both in connection with the film and independently from it, leaving space for the viewer’s imagination.
If we removed the images, what would remain of the film in your music?
If we removed the images, maybe new ones could be created from the music I wrote. In the end, through a mix of magic, time, opportunities, luck, intuition, synchronicity, but above all through a capricious, arbitrary method that makes me feel at ease - this is the unique and unrepeatable result that both I and the people who made the film have reached.
