The Miniaturist
BBC period drama · Music Editor
Music editor and cellist developing an idiosyncratic sound palette for this BBC period drama starring Anya Taylor-Joy, scored by Dan Jones.
Services:
Music editing · Sound palette · Cello
Music editing · Sound palette · Cello
Client:
BBC
Year:
2017
2017
The approach
I helped blend period instruments (lute) with more mystical textures (celesta, Gamelan Gangsa). A low music budget meant recording soloists — violin, cor anglais, guitars and me on cello — in a raw, intimate way rather than with a full orchestra.
SoundCloud
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My role in the score
I built the first-draft score from Dan Jones‘s music — proposing what plays where, offering multiple options for each cue, and making the case for the choices I believed in as his creative collaborator. We refined it together and then with the director and other stakeholders across successive passes, focused on what best served the picture; most of my suggestions carried through, though the final call on the scoring was Dan’s as composer. I also handled the final mix edits once notes came in from the dub.
The approach
I helped blend period instruments (lute) with more mystical textures (celesta, Gamelan Gangsa). A low music budget meant recording soloists — violin, cor anglais, guitars and me on cello — in a raw, intimate way rather than with a full orchestra.
SoundCloud
Set a track URL in the Properties.
SoundCloud
Set a track URL in the Properties.
My role in the score
I built the first-draft score from Dan Jones‘s music — proposing what plays where, offering multiple options for each cue, and making the case for the choices I believed in as his creative collaborator. We refined it together and then with the director and other stakeholders across successive passes, focused on what best served the picture; most of my suggestions carried through, though the final call on the scoring was Dan’s as composer. I also handled the final mix edits once notes came in from the dub.
