The Melancholy Tide - The soundtrack for the film.
The original brief on the music changed a lot to become more abstract, atmospheric, experimental and almost distorted. We almost wanted the music and the sound design to blend together and almost become indistinguishable. Despite the change in direction, I still wanted to keep elements from our original sketch and so a lot of the material in the score is derived from High Tide. I integrated motifs from High Tide by distorting and adding effects to the strings to make them more atmospheric and textural and just recognisable as originating from an organic source. The most obvious element linking the two pieces together is the cello melody which comes in towards the end of the film and lifts the piece to a more positive ending from an ominous start.
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