Twenty haunting tracks have been produced at the NeoKitsch studio for the Science Fiction genre.
Each track describes a different landscape or scene inspired by science fiction stories and films. The musical influences come from both a modern and vintage interpretation of futuristic sounds and ideas. Modern science fiction film scores such as Cliff Martinez’s music to the remake of Solaris with George Clooney has been the direction Danny Hahn has been going with for this album at the studio. As a complete contrast, Danny developed this musical style with influences from earlier film scores, such as Bernard Herrmann’s music to The Day The Earth Stood Still in 1951, and even dipping into the 80′s, with Vangelis in Blade Runner. Other influences come from the futuristic, experimental, glitch/electronica music by the group Autechre.
To achieve these styles, Danny used many modern and vintage instruments. For that 21st century sound, Danny turned to Autechre. After hearing Autechre live using the Swedish made synthesizer, the Elektron Monomachine, and its partner in crime, the Machinedrum, the NeoKitsch studio added these instruments to the collection. The Elektron synths helped produce a wide range of sounds, which span across many different eras of music.
To achieve the vintage, 50′s feel of science fiction, the Moog Etherwave Theremin was used in many of the tracks. After Danny played the Theremin to the public with Lydia Kavina at the Royal Festival Hall in London, many new ideas to produce the ‘Etherwaves’ album came about after the collaboration. Lydia Kavina had played the Theremin for many film scores including Tim Burton’s ‘Ed Wood’ and ‘The Machinist’ starring Christian Bale, and these contrasting styles, both serious, psychological interpretations, and ‘Neo-Kitsch’, nostalgic older styles, were a starting point for Danny to work with his interpretation of the genre.
To achieve the 80′s feel to science fiction music, many Roland synths and early Korg vocoders were used. Arpeggiators, vocoders and samplers from 30 year old synthesizers can be heard in the collection, including the Moog Rogue, Korg MS2000B, Roland TB-303, Yamaha CS10, and many others.
The Etherwaves album can be heard from the link below, where it is published for film producers on the networking site, Humtoo, and it can also be downloaded from iTunes, Amazon mp3, Rhapsody and Napster, as well as on CD, which can be purchased from the NeoKitsch online store from the tab at the header of this site.
