An Interview with Lucrecia Dalt

Experimental musician turned film and TV composer Lucrecia Dalt joins me on The Film Scorer Podcast! Despite a lifelong interest in film and film music, as well as a decade-long career in composing and sound design, Dalt has just broken into the film and TV sphere in the last several months. We primarily cover her two new scores – for the horror feature The Seed and the horror-comedy show The Baby – but also dive into our thoughts on the film and film music landscapes and touch on her broader love of film.

I’m a huge fan of both of these scores, which provide an exciting, fresh experimental take on media music, utilizing strange voices (especially real and pseudo throat-singing), monolithic fear, and hints of comedy. All it took was for me to hear the single from The Seed, “Venutian Offspring”, to know I wanted to dig into these more.

The Seed is available to watch digitally on Shudder while The Baby is available via HBO in the US and Sky in the UK. Both of her scores, and all of her other music, is available digitally, particularly on BandCamp. The vinyl version of The Seed is available via Invada.

Have a listen to our conversation below or wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube).

About The Baby and The Seed

“An eight-episode horror comedy limited series co-production with SKY, and produced by SISTER (Chernobyl, Landscapers) and Proverbial Pictures, The Baby presents a darkly funny, raw examination of motherhood, from the perspective of a woman who doesn’t want to be one.

Michelle De Swarte (The Duchess) stars as 38-year-old Natasha, who is furious that her closest friends are all having babies. But when she is unexpectedly landed with a baby of her own, her life dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative, but incredibly cute, the baby twists Natasha’s life into a surreal horror show. As she discovers the true extent of the baby’s deadly nature, Natasha makes increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it. She doesn’t want a baby. But the baby definitely wants her.” – from HBO

The Seed also made it into The Film Scorer’s Best Film Scores of March 2022: “Noted experimental musician Lucrecia Dalt makes her film scoring debut with the horror movie The Seed. Utilizing synths, tape loops, and an array of organic instruments, Dalt jumps across genres from comedy, action, and (most importantly) horror. As the film sheds its other genre trappings and slowly coalesces into the terrorizing, so too does Dalt’s score. Eventually it becomes a monolithic roar, the low howling of the deepest reaches of intergalactic subterranea. Excitingly, just two months later Dalt released another (and arguably superior) score, this time for the HBO/Sky short horror series The Baby. Coming off the backs of these two entries, she’s surely a voice to keep track of.”