Soundtrack for a short film I scored, “Grief Retreat,” which premiered at the Oscar-qualifying Hollyshorts film festival 2025.
I wanted to think of this score as an entirely messy and tactile thing, and so I tried to write it based entirely around sounds emitted from physical objects, using the computer mainly as a stenographer instead of writing partner. The whole thing centers around the sonic possibilities of a fretless classical guitar (I had one custom-made last year after seeing a video of someone playing one on a balcony in Istanbul, which still breaks my heart) that I tapped and strummed and scratched. It’s filled out by an array of children’s noisemaking toys I found in the basement of my family home, including a wooden frog whose back you can scratch, an owl that hoots when you blow into it, and plastic eggs filled with sand.
I wanted to think of this score as an entirely messy and tactile thing, and so I tried to write it based entirely around sounds emitted from physical objects, using the computer mainly as a stenographer instead of writing partner. The whole thing centers around the sonic possibilities of a fretless classical guitar (I had one custom-made last year after seeing a video of someone playing one on a balcony in Istanbul, which still breaks my heart) that I tapped and strummed and scratched. It’s filled out by an array of children’s noisemaking toys I found in the basement of my family home, including a wooden frog whose back you can scratch, an owl that hoots when you blow into it, and plastic eggs filled with sand.