The Pleasure Garden
This new score for Alfred Hitchcock’s first silent film was commissioned by the British Film Institute in 2012 as part of their Rescue the Hitchcock 9 project, with funding provided by the PRS for Music Foundation. The score was premiered in London at Wilton’s Music Hall in Summer 2012.
The score was played again at NFT1 on the Southbank in London, and later that year by the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira Jovem at a live screening on Copacabana Beach at Rio Film Festival – in front of several thousand people.
The next year the score was performed again in Brasil, this time by the Orquestra Sinfonica de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, a wonderfully artsy city a bit inland from Rio de Janeiro.
The score was performed again in England, this time at Bournemouth Arts Festival, where this appropriately Lynchian photograph was taken of me introducing the film.
The State Orchestra Camerata of Kazakhstan in Almaty performed the score in 2014. I am still most grateful to the performers, the audience, and the technical team for sticking it out in the rain!
Most recently, The Pleasure Garden was brought to Transilvania International Film Festival, where the score was performed by Notes and Ties orchestra conducted by Christopher Austin.
Photos – Marius Maris
Picture courtesy of ITV Global Studios and Park Circus
Kamaloka
Composing and producing this OST was my first experience working with bona fide arthouse film.
The film’s director Samir Guessous writes:
“Lulu and Marcel discuss the dramatic death of a local dancer resulting in the theft and gift of a powerful amulet. Originally inspired by the curious lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1966 song ‘4th Time Around’, Kamaloka is a heady, dissociative tale.”
Generation Adolf
In December 2015, director Michael Konstabel began to film the personal story of local character Jürgen (below) – previously known as Adolf. He then began a wide-reaching search for all the Adolfs he could find to tell him their story.
The soundtrack will be released one day…
Girl. London. Night.
When I moved to Cluj I daydreamed about making soundtracks for independent films at a small home studio. Recording two superb horn players for “Girl. London. Night.” was a first realisation of this dream, and I’m very grateful to Claire, Chris and Elroy for giving their permission to put this up!