- MovieScore Media: Ryan Shore - THE SHRINE

[horner1980]

Der gute Ryan Shore hat eine neuen Score rausgebracht

Den Hörbeispielen zu beurteilen klingt das nicht schlecht.

Hat eine schöne Atmosphäre.

MovieScore Media has released seven albums by Ryan Shore, including the acclaimed Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher, Headspace and Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. Our first CD together on the Screamworks label features Shore’s second score for Jack Brooks director Jon Knautz,The Shrine. For this story about a group of young journalists who investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, the composer goes into ominous “under-your-skin” territory in a way akin to his effective music for The Girl Next Door. The eerie score also features some gothic pipe organ music and, as a special treat for our album, the composer has made a special variation arrangement of this thematic material! Our soundtrack release co-incides with the VOD and theatrical release of the film, distributed in the US by IFC Midnight.

ABOUT THE SCORE

Ryan Shore’s second feature film score for director Jon Knautz, following the acclaimed “old-school” orchestral score for Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (available on CD from MovieScore Media), the music for The Shrine explores even darker sides of the composer. Closer stylistically to his acclaimed music for The Girl Next Door and Headspace,the score for The Shrine is an atmospheric, hauntingly eerie listening experience.

“The Shrine is a serious thriller/dramatic narrative with dark, cult-like, solemn undercurrents. This film is a slow burn that gets underneath you in a subconscious way. Musical ideas in The Shrine are able to take their time in developing. This mirrors the way the characters are slowly deepening and irreversibly intertwining themselves into the small town they are exploring.”

The musical backbone of the score is centered around a very specific interval. Ryan Shore explains: “Ultimately The Shrine is about the awesome responsibility and power that comes with evil. In music, there is an interval known as a “tritone”. Specifically, it is the exact middle between the two ends of the octave (six semitones from the bottom, and six semitones from the top), and it has a very peculiar, unsettling, and unresolved sound. For the past many centuries this interval has had the description of “diabolus in music” or “the devil in music”, and composers strongly avoided using it in their compositions. Knowing of this historical connection to the devil, I decided to build an entire score around it for The Shrine.”

Already heard in the first piece, “The Shrine,” the tritone is stated very simply in three notes heard in the lowest registers – first as the tonic, then to the fifth, and then to the tritone – all in a crescendoing downward motion. “I wanted it to mirror the downward motion of the eye spikes in the mask that the are used for human sacrifice within the film – almost as though this musical phrase was the deep plunging of the mask’s spikes themselves. This three note figure reoccurs throughout the score.”

Ryan Shore conceived the score to function, figuratively, as one large crescendo. He says: “Much in the same way when you sense something is wrong – it first comes to you as a whisper, and then gradually grows in intensity until it can no longer be denied.”

In terms of colors, the composer also employed the use of a mixed choir “to underpin the religious tone of the townspeople’s rituals” and there is also original music for pipe organ. “When we first are introduced to the cult leaders, they are attending a religious service in an old Eastern church on the countryside. I composed an original prelude for pipe organ which can be heard off in the distance coming from the hallows of the cathedral. For this album, I revisited this music, further developing it, building upon it’s themes, and writing a resolved denouement as heard in the final piece, ‘Polish Variations’.”

TRACK LISTING

1. The Shrine 3.28
   
2. Polish Prelude 1.25
   
3. Eric Taylor 1.15
   
4. The Chase 2.14
   
5. A Dense Fog 1.54
   
6. Henryk 1.41
   
7. Hunted in the Lodge 1.59
   
8. The Torture Ceremony 4.36
   
9. Henryk Chases Marcus 1.40
   
10. Carmen’s Spiral 7.09
    
11. Crucifixion 6.18
    
12. The Curse 3.49
    
13. Polish Variations 2.42
    

Quelle: The Shrine (Ryan Shore)

[florian92]

Mmmh, wohl ein neuer Horrorthriller. Aber ne Laufzeit von überschlagen 40 Minuten is doch etwas mager...Dafür klingts aber schön düster und hat Athmosphäre wie ich finde. Und das Cover hat auch was...

[ronin1975]

Trailer zum Film sah aber grottoid aus... naja, muss ja nicht heissen die Musik is schlecht.,, mein Fall isses net...

[horner1980]

Hier ein eher negatives Review zu diesem, wie ich finde interessanten und guten Score..

Keine Ahnung, was der da gehört hat.. für ihm muss wohl Horrorscores Krach bedeuten... naja aber eines ist gut.. gegen Ende des Links sind auch Hörbeispiele..

http://soundtrackgee...rack-review.php

[Laubwoelfin]

Hier ein eher negatives Review zu diesem, wie ich finde interessanten und guten Score..

Keine Ahnung, was der da gehört hat.. für ihm muss wohl Horrorscores Krach bedeuten... naja aber eines ist gut.. gegen Ende des Links sind auch Hörbeispiele..

http://soundtrackgee...rack-review.php

Ja, das frage ich mich auch, was der da gehört hat... Denn ich hatte Panikattacken beim Hören...

Außerdem ist der Score auch experimentell, wie mir Ryan beim letzten Gespräch sagte (welches ich die nächsten Tage mal hochlade); Er erzählte, dass er den "Devil in Music" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone) verwendet hatte..

Desweiteren werde ich mich bald mal an eine Suite wagen

[Laubwoelfin]

Wie ich schon angedroht/angekündigt habe, wollte ich mich an eine Suite zu diesem Score wagen.

Und ich habe mich getraut. Aber nicht, ohne vorher den Komponisten, also Ryan zu fragen, ob ich denn auch dürfte.

Nun..... zuerst bekam ich diese Antwort:

absolutely, you're welcome to. i'd love to hear it when it's done!

Nachdem es dann "done", also fertig war, zeigte ich es ihm und bekam dann noch zu lesen:

i just listened to the full suite and it sounds great! love it. thanks for sending it to me.

Also, mit seinem Segen hier nun eine "kleine" Zusammenfassung des Scores zu "The Shrine"

http://vimeo.com/34270550

[Osthunter]

Klingt gut, die werd ich mal im Auge behalten, wenn es bei Varese, FSM, Intrada und Co Ebbe ist...