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Filmmusic Vol.1 is the first of an occasional series of CD releases featuring score commissions by Philip Brophy, released on Sound Punch Records. Filmmusic Vol.1 contains scores from 2 projects: Headless and Paradise. Filmmusic Vol.2 contains scores from 4 projects: Anyone Home, The Pining Tree, Maidenhead and Whispering in the Dark.
Headless
Having composed the music to Ana Kokkinos’ Only The Brave in 1994, Philip Brophy saw the chance to work on her next film Head On in 2000 as a great opportunity. But as is the way of so much commissioned film music, the end results were deemed inappropriate to the film. Philip’s concept for the score was to produce a hybrid musical state to reflect the ‘between-cultures’ aspect of the story’s main character: a young Greek boy, trapped by conservative family values, breaking out into drugs and gay nightlife. Philip had engineered and produced the Greek band recordings used in the film, and then reconstructed new themes from fragments of oud, clarino, bouzouki, guitars and drums. Analogue synths and highly abstracted textures transform them utterly. Headless presents the complete unused score: a true ‘invisible soundtrack’.
Philip Brophy sampler, guitars & keyboards; processing of source material provided by Irine & Mulaim Vela, Rachel Cogan, George Kirkopoulos & Christos Balzidis.
ParadiseIlana Schulman’s 1998 short Paradise is a dense allegoric tale of domestic discord. Loosely based around a mermaid who sews her legs together to walk on land and take her place as a mother in a family, the film has a luscious look and only one word of dialogue. Not only does some of the Philip's processing suggest the acoustic sensation of being submerged under water (muted, low-frequency rumbles, 'wah-wah' tones, etc.), but the instrumentation evokes cinematic conventions of the sea.
Philip Brophy sampler, guitars, keyboards & sound effects.
Anyone Home
Anyone Home is a short digital video by Rosemary Dean from 2004. Based in Tokyo, Rosemary’s work merges documentary and a form of visual contemplation. All her videos are largely composed of long static shots of apparently empty spaces. Anyone Home captures the feeling of ‘danchis’ – a type of home developed in Japan in the 60s.
Philip Brophy - drums, guitars.The Pining Tree
The Pining Tree is an animation written & directed by Rosemary Dean, using images drawn by Aiko Asanuma and animated by Tetsuro Shimauchi. Independently financed and produced by Rosemary between 2004 and 2006, the film employs a sketched/water-coloured series of still-drawings. The animation is extremely limited so as to focus on the minutae of 'stillness' that surrounds the central character as she lives alone in her apartment with a large tree just outside her window.
Philip Brophy - keyboards, effects.Whispering in the Dark
Whispering In The Dark is a short film funded by the Australian Film Commission and developed by writer/director Lynne B. Williams and producer Aida Innocente in 2002. It stars Rachel Blake and Daniel Schlussler as a couple who appear snared in each other’s memory of their fractured and transient relationship. Through a series of self-enveloping moments, the two appear to replay their own version of the events that lead to their chance encounter and the aftermath as they leave each other.
Philip Brophy - percussion, guitars, voices.Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a short film developed by writer/director Marie Craven and producer John Cruthers. It stars Alice Garner as Alice - a young woman who moves through a series of quasi-surreal episodes and encounters with people in everyday situations. The character Alice is a meld of the numerous 'Alices in Wonderlands' that have been referenced in stories intent on exploring emotional/psychological transformations that occur when a femal characters 'wanders' across unfamilar terrain. Very much a 'dream narrative', Maidenhead is comprised of around 7 discrete episodes - each featuring Alice, but none connecting or linking to each other. They are like random moments or chapters in her memory or imagination.
Philip Brophy - keyboards, sampler.
Only The Brave
Only The Brave is a featurette funded by the Australian Film Commission directed by Ana Kokkinos from a script by Ana Kokkinos and Mira Robertson, and produced by Fiona Eagger. It features young actors Elena Mandalis & Dora Kaskanis as two teenagers working through a series of family and emotional problems. Told in a terse naturalistic style, the story charts the girls' sexual maturation against their limiting and oppressive family backgrounds.
Philip Brophy - keyboards, drums, sampler.
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