Veröffentlichung (USA) - MovieScore Media: Ryan Shore - Headspace

[Marcus Stöhr]

MovieScore Media hat wieder einen neuen Titel in ihr Programm aufgenommen: Headspace von Ryan Shore.

Co-inciding with the US DVD release of the film, MovieScore Media

releases Ryan Shore's exciting and stylish score for sci-fi horror

film Headspace on September 12. This is the Swedish soundtrack

label's eleventh online album, following critically acclaimed

releases of scores such as Half Light, An American Haunting, The

Roost, Evil and The Sisters.

Headspace is the directorial debut of Andrew van den Houten and stars

Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Sean Young, Dee Wallace-Stone, Mark

Margolis and Larry Fessenden. The winner of the "Best Screenplay" and

"Best Cinematography" awards at the New York City Horror Film

festival last year, Headspace was described by Slasherpool.com as "an

interesting combination of creature feature and psychological

thriller." Hollywood Reporter noted that the director "displays a

strong ability for creating an air of atmospheric tension," a quality

of the film which definitely owes a lot to Ryan Shore's highly

original score.

Genre web site Joe Horror wrote that Shore's music is "one of the

better horror soundtracks I've heard in recent years. It's

refreshingly short on nu-metal and if I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty

sure I heard� a non-synthesized orchestra." Indeed, the score for

Headspace was recorded with a first-rate symphony orchestra, The

Slovak National Symphony Orchestra recorded in Bratislava.

Ryan Shore is an up and coming Canadian composer with a surname that

surely catches the attention of a lof of film music aficionados: Ryan

is the nephew of Howard Shore, the composer of famous The Lord of the

Rings trilogy. Just like Howard, Ryan Shore studied at the Berklee

College of Music in Boston. He won the first Elmer Bernstein Scoring

Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2001, and since then he has

scored numerous features, including Prime (starring Meryl Streep and

Uma Thurman), Harvard Men (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Confession

(Chris Pine). 31-year old Ryan Shore is considered to be one of the

most interesting young film composers and he has recently composed

original source music for the upcoming drama Fur, starring Nicole

Kidman as revered photographer Diane Arbus.

Shore's score for Headspace is a stylish orchestral work with subtle

elements of electronic sound design. It also features a string

quartet, an infectious jazz tune (performed by the Ryan Shore

Quartet), and a beautiful arrangement of Bach's "Ave Maria".

Headspace: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available from iTunes and MovieScore Media on September 12, 2006.

Den Score kann man hier kaufen:

[Gast Matthias Noe]

Das Ding lohnt sich allerdings nicht wirklich. Ist vielmehr ein weitere der mittlerweile unzähligen schwachbrüstigen Horrorfilmmusiken, die wenig mehr als Streichergrummeln und Synthesizersummen und -brummen zum Erzeugen von Grauen benutzen. Dem großen Namen Shore wird Ryan nicht gerecht, mehr dazu bald auf FilmmusikWelt.de.

Gruß,

Matthias