Sound Upon Sound: The Conversation
Undertones: Volume 11 Having the misfortune of being dwarfed by the releases of the critical and commercial giants, The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather II…
Nothing Out There
Undertones: Volume 10 In 1977, amongst works by Beethoven, Chuck Berry and examples of indigenous music from around the world, Blind Willie Johnson’s mournful blues…
Future Shorts Arrives In Australia
On 19th June, Future Shorts will be having its Australian launch in Perth, Western Australia. Future Shorts is one of the leading and most innovative…
Sonic Isolation: Jonny Greenwood’s score for There Will Blood
Undertones: Volume 9 Dissonant strings buzz malevolently, rising from the audio depths and as a shot of uninhabited terrain in the American West is shown…
5 Memorable Film Scores of the 00s
Undertones: Volume 8 As we approach the end of the decade, it seems fitting that this installment of Undertones concern itself with some of the…
Tortured Overtures: Horror Film Score Themes of the 1970s
Undertones: Volume 7 It’s the time of the year again where folks’ minds turn to the macabre and the ghoulish; where death is celebrated rather…
Scores from Outer Space
Undertones: Volume 6 The classic science fiction film emerged during a period of great societal paranoia in the US in the early 1950s. The post-WW2…
Sweet Sadism: Angelo Badalamenti’s Score for Blue Velvet
Undertones: Volume 5 Removing the veneer of squeaky-clean suburban American life to reveal its seamy underbelly, David Lynch’s 1986 film, Blue Velvet, is a modern…
The Drone of Dead Man
Undertones: Volume 4 Jim Jarmusch’s transcendental western, Dead Man (1995), is the tale of a spiritual and physical journey taken by an ordinary man named…
Scoring the Silents
Undertones: Volume 3 From the beginning of cinema theatre owners tried a variety of methods in which to add sound to film. Initially the reasons…
Hooch ‘n’ Harmonies
Undertones: Volume 2 In the 1940s the consumption of alcohol was predominantly glamorised on the silver screen. Starlets sipped sensuously on their g & t’s…
The Sound of Falling: Bernard Herrmann’s Score for ‘Vertigo’
Undertones: Volume 1 Bring up Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo (1958) in conversation to anyone who has seen it and you are bound to get one of…
