Belgian composer and sound designer Michiel De Malsche assembles an orchestra of players to create a bewitching soundtrack to Dutch writer Marieke Lucas's Booker Prize-winning "The Discomfort of Evening". RIYL Svarte Greiner, Ben Frost, Lustmord.
The latest from Belgian festival Meakusma's bespoke imprint is a bleak and beatless widescreen excursion that approaches the "imaginary soundtrack" concept from a different angle. Contemporary classical composer De Malsche has produced dozens of soundtracks - for movies, theater, and contemporary dance - but here conducts 16 musicians to create a unique foundation for his creepy, minimalist accompaniment to Lucas's text. "The Discomfort of Evening" is a controversial Dutch bestseller that's notorious for its graphic sexuality and abuse, focusing on the life of a ten year old girl living on a farm with her religious family. Speckled with death and the protagonist's spiral into mental instability, the book's grim themes are represented by De Malsche with his greyscale combination of instruments and electronics.
Using classical string instruments, a right woodwind section, marimba, ondes Martenot, toy piano, percussion and most interestingly the guqin, an ancient Chinese zither that's considered "the father of Chinese music", De Malsche reduces each sound to its most essential tones. The soundtrack never erupts into orchestral prettiness or follows expected Hollywood paths of logic, rather De Malsche sticks to a tight aesthetic script, harmonizing with the story's tension and darkness and expressing these themes with disquieting electronic drones and lightly processed instrumental blasts. Fans of Lustmord's soundtrack material should check immediately.
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Belgian composer and sound designer Michiel De Malsche assembles an orchestra of players to create a bewitching soundtrack to Dutch writer Marieke Lucas's Booker Prize-winning "The Discomfort of Evening". RIYL Svarte Greiner, Ben Frost, Lustmord.
The latest from Belgian festival Meakusma's bespoke imprint is a bleak and beatless widescreen excursion that approaches the "imaginary soundtrack" concept from a different angle. Contemporary classical composer De Malsche has produced dozens of soundtracks - for movies, theater, and contemporary dance - but here conducts 16 musicians to create a unique foundation for his creepy, minimalist accompaniment to Lucas's text. "The Discomfort of Evening" is a controversial Dutch bestseller that's notorious for its graphic sexuality and abuse, focusing on the life of a ten year old girl living on a farm with her religious family. Speckled with death and the protagonist's spiral into mental instability, the book's grim themes are represented by De Malsche with his greyscale combination of instruments and electronics.
Using classical string instruments, a right woodwind section, marimba, ondes Martenot, toy piano, percussion and most interestingly the guqin, an ancient Chinese zither that's considered "the father of Chinese music", De Malsche reduces each sound to its most essential tones. The soundtrack never erupts into orchestral prettiness or follows expected Hollywood paths of logic, rather De Malsche sticks to a tight aesthetic script, harmonizing with the story's tension and darkness and expressing these themes with disquieting electronic drones and lightly processed instrumental blasts. Fans of Lustmord's soundtrack material should check immediately.