After a long wait and seemingly unending anticipation, Season 6 of The Film Scorer Podcast is here! To kick off the new season, I’m joined by the very rare repeat guest, the great Colin Stetson (Hereditary, The Menu)! Colin and I talked several years back (much longer ago than it feels), right around when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out, really digging into the weirdness of his score. This time, our focus is technically on his score for the new show Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, but we get off track almost immediately and seemingly never recover, talking about the show as well as his series of improv/collaboration releases, Chainsaw, playing on audience expectations, and trying to imbue projects with real and honest human experience. Frankly, it ended up pretty wide-ranging.
Funnily, one of the most interesting topics is one we got onto almost by accident, when we started chatting well past our initial 30 minutes had run out. We begin by talking about the use of unusual sounds, or really unusual sources to create new sounds, of how limitation can result in expansion. But Colin isn’t doing this for its own sake, rather he’s trying to dispel the audience from having the same sonic experience, using familiarity as a foot in the door before expanding the strangeness to keep the audience captivated and “really there”. It’s also key to his job of imbuing an object (e.g. a film) with a “real and honest human experience”.
Colin’s score for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, and much of his other music, is available on all major platforms while the show itself is available on Netflix. Find out more about Colin on his website.
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