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Building an atmosphere: Music

Created at	August 24, 2008
Created by	Matti-Pekka Ritvola
Deadline	Not set
Shots given	8
Wreckupations	Sound Designer
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Timo Vuorensola	Dark Jazz	2/18%
Udo Fischer	Songs	2/18%
Jani Salomaa	Múm bleached in black	2/18%
Pasi Pitkänen	Very dark and ambient	1/9%
Olli H	Acidic atmosphere..	1/9%
Nikko Mäkinen	Portishead	1/9%
Vlad Alexa	trip-hop	1/9%

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Filmnoir has almost always had an orchestral dark soundtrack. Jazz and blues are also synonymous with the genre. With this grim gotham story i would like to explore new directions in musical landscapes as well. The original comic obviously does not contain a musical score but im quite sure it was ment to be jazzy funky crime thriller stuff.

In the age of digital animation and neo-noir, what should the musical score be like? What kind of an atmosphere would be cool and engaging?

Movie is set in the modern era +-10 years. Themes contain duality, schitzofrenia, betrayal, hope, salvation and love. Feel free to share your ideas of the musical and ambient sound featured in this production!

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Udo Fischer August 17, 2009 12:44 2 Thumb-ups

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Songs

Maybe something like this?

http://www.lastfm.de/music/End+Time+Channel/Starship+neilA/Tank+459

And i got a dark ambient tune on my myspace- page myspace.com/endtimechannel which is called "Scene Three", maybe that one could fit....

The whole Album of the first song is here, maybe there is something that could inspire...

http://www.lastfm.de/music/End+Time+Channel/Starship+neilA

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Pasi Pitkänen March 30, 2009 13:03 1 Thumb-up

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Very dark and ambient

I would go with the dark & ambient type of music with this one.

Here's a fine example from the soundtrack of the game Max Payne 2. Composed by Kärtsy Hatakka and Kimmo Kajasto.

I can also provide this kind of music if you are interested?

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Vlad Alexa March 17, 2009 19:04 1 Thumb-up

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trip-hop

I think a lot of trip-hop music out there would fit the bill , but also check out this guy http://www.generalfuzz.net/

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jake van't Klaphek October 26, 2008 20:25 1 Thumb-up

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classical

I'd have to say definitly classical music as a score...dark and uplifting (for example mozart- o fortuna) that and the kind've music from the dark knight (orchestra classicall symphonies that make you feel depressed and can make you feel good

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Jani Salomaa October 21, 2008 15:54 2 Thumb-ups

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Múm bleached in black

Islandic band Múm has a great sound, but has a way too positive a feel for your film.

But great evil themes are made from something positive turned into some perverse dark form.

Thus try Múm's water-themed album Finally We are No One, and find someone to make an EVIL version of it. That should be haunting enough.

Imagine this in twisted form:

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Nikko Mäkinen October 14, 2008 01:13 1 Thumb-up

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Portishead

When I was reading your description I was listening to a great song by Portishead, called "Hunter":

I think this song along with many other Portishead songs might have the right atmosphere for fine reference material.

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Olli H October 09, 2008 13:00 1 Thumb-up

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Acidic atmosphere..

The movies name made me think about that:

Well, maybe it doesn't fit in the film but great music anyway.

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Timo Vuorensola August 24, 2008 16:28 2 Thumb-ups

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Dark Jazz

I would definitively recommend something that combines urban vibes - a tad of machines to the music - accompanied with dark jazzy sounds. There are few very good examples, that I would feel would work for Two of a Kind.

1. Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - the name says it all, plus a bit of machine sounds and brooding drumloops to fulfill the package.

2. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - The same but darker, and without any drumloops

3. Ulver - Norwegian ex-blackmetal band that turned into something of a urban mechanised nightmare.

Each of these bands are not huge names, so when presented with an intereseting concept & script, they would be both affordable and would propalby push a bit of extra effort to the soundtrack!