Piano Music

Over the years, many filmmakers have requested NeoKitsch to produce piano pieces for their productions.

The music uploaded to this particular blog entry is called Piano Glitch. It was commissioned by a filmmaker who was making a particularly personal film in which he was exploring the sensitive subject of cancer, and the final stages of his mother as she was documented towards the end of her life. The task of composing a title sequence for the film, which was to be screened at local cinemas to friends, family and the local press, proved to be a little more complicated than anticipated.

The filmmaker attended many meetings at the NeoKitsch studio. The music needed to be redrafted several times for numerous reasons, such as the piece being far too depressing, too upbeat, or cliché for this style of documentary. The director was often in mixed minds about how he wanted to represent his mother’s last days of her life. He knew it was to be a positive film about the strength and bravery his mother possessed, but nevertheless, as NeoKitsch had pointed out, if the music were to be confident sounding, the subtext of what at the time appeared to be an agonising struggle, would smell of irony, and as it was a personal project attempting to be as truthful as possible, we all decided to settle for a piece which described how his mother was feeling and the people around her. With her approval, and the final go ahead from the director, we settled for the piece you can hear now.

The music is a bitter/sweet melody, which is surrounded by glitchy crackles and stutters, which helped describe the images of flickering, abstract medical machinery.

You may or may not agree with the atmosphere of the music for a subject as sensitive as this, but it was well received by the friends, family and community of everyone involved, and that seemed to be the only important accomplishment at the time.   

You can download the full version of “Piano Glitch” from iTunes and other leading stores.