Recently anointed Grammy winner Carla Patullo joins The Film Scorer podcast! While Carla has over thirty scores under her belt, she might be most known for her non-score album So She Howls, for which Carla won the Grammy for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album earlier this year. Unsurprisingly, then, Carla and I spend a fair bit of time talking about that album. However, and perhaps more importantly, we actually focus much of our discussion on the genesis of that album: Carla’s cancer diagnosis a few years ago. Carla began by recording little voice and vocal snippets, which eventually evolved into a full album. She told me she was worried it might be her final album, but that if so she wanted a chance to sing “one last time”. Fortunately, it isn’t. We also move into discussions on the scoring world, her love for short films, the concerns surrounding AI, and plenty more.
It was also heartening to hear how much the Grammy nomination and subsequent win meant to Carla. Scoring – and music in general – is very difficult to break into, but Carla told me that the Grammy win gave her “momentum as a human being . . it’s made me believe in myself.”
You can find out more about Carla on her website. Some of Carla’s recent scores, as well as So She Howls, are available on all major platforms..
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More About So She Howls
“On the toughest day of my journey – where I wasn’t sure what might happen to me – I sat in front of my microphone and sang. Melodies flowed out of me, attempting to free myself of the concern about what might become of the tracks, or of me. These raw tracks, in fact, are what I ended up using for the album. I kept them instead of re-recording them because of their emotional weight. . . Through this therapeutic process of singing and writing music, I was able to move past a dead end road block in my mind and see adventure ahead. That’s when I started adding healing frequencies to the later tracks and evolving the album into that of hope, healing and upliftment.”
