'Borrowed grandeur'

… Woody Allen’s description of film music. It’s amazing how prevalent it is - and how often it’s too much: the music and not the drama telling you what to feel. We started out quite purist: Simon, Paul and I talked airily of a ‘sound sculpt’, using Parisian street sounds that Martin Wilson picked up in his ‘atmos’ recordings on location, and creating a soundtrack from them. With the action cut we all felt it needed something - over the credits at the top and perhaps at moments in the film too. I had heard and seen Sarah Llewellyn (http://www.myspace.com/sarahllew - I’ve forgotten how to embed links) at a circus - she took a break from her work with Tonal to be musical director of Gifford’s - a biannual touring circus. She led a Parisian/Balkan/gypsy/ band there which made a great noise and made me think she might be able to help with Oscar and Jim. She wrote an Oscar and Jim suite for us and her Tonal Ensemble performed it. The only pity is that we couldn’t use more of the music in the finished film. Here’s the opening theme. Oscar & Jim theme.mp3

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