Working with the Berlin - Symphony of a Great City movie score

While planning what to do with the movie score, which I briefly talked about in my earlier blog post. I found this great tool from the web called Cinemetrics. Which can evaluate the lengths of the individual shots in the film. This made the planning of the different moods much easier. I decided to use more percussive material for parts with quick edits and more ambient moods to the slower parts. Here's an image of a quick plan I made.

Cinemetrics data image with musical parts and lengths

The parts are marked like this Red (Very Fast), Orange (Fast), Yellow (Medium), Green (Slow). I really love these movie nerds that come up with databases like these. Saved me hours of watching and taking notes, could dive faster into the actual music part and thus helping tons with my workflow. Thanks Cinemetrics!

I'm working on a techno soundtrack for a 1927 movie "Berlin - Symphony of a Great City". It will be performed live in Oulu in an event by Oulun Juhlaviikot.

Here's a test video I did with an unreleased techno piece. Watch out, there's bass all over the place, haven't yet started working on the mix. It's a lot of work to get the 60 minutes of music in that I feel that fits the different moods of the 5 acts in the movie. Let's see how much live action I can squeeze in there, the schedule is tight!

Nevertheless a cool project.

I'm planning to combine the moving images of Berlin with dreamlike experimental techno, with the purpose of deepening the visual obsevation of what's going on in the great city. Also music should help the immense amount of information provided by the fast pace of editing. The tracks will be both released and unreleased material from my "Artificial Latvamäki" archives. New and old. All of the music will be manipulated real-time while observing the feeling of the venue and the images portrayed in the movie. All of the tracks in the set will be re-programmed and re-mixed just for the movie. Because it really deserves it.