(Untitled) film score (2009) 96'
Jonathan Parker, director
David Lang, composer
Parker Film Company
program note
David Lang writes:
‘Most of the time film music is in the background, setting the mood or advancing the story in a supporting role. This project was different. Because the leading character is a composer, it is a film as much about musical development as it is about character development. There is the music that surrounds him, the music he composes and performs, the music that comes out of him as the complexity of his emotional life deepens and grows.’
The soundtrack combines music composed especially for the film with excerpts compiled from his entire discography on the Bang on a Can-affiliated Cantaloupe Music label. Edited and produced with former So Percussion member, Lawson White, (Untitled)’s soundtrack serves as perfect introduction to Lang’s work, a mid-career retrospective of sorts for this composer’s composer.
1. Press Release (Excerpt)
2. I’m Still Shaking
3. Cheating, Lying, Stealing (Excerpt)
4. Ray
5. Chopin
6. My Very Empty Mouth (Excerpt)
7. Gallery Humiliation
8. Pandas
9. Sweet Air (Excerpt)
10. Out of the Taxi
11. Schoenberg
12. Beer Inspiration
13. The Anvil Chorus (Excerpt)
14. Grieg
15. Stick Figure Variation
16. Front Room, Back Room
17. I’m Not Paying for This
18. What Do You Have in The Back Room?
19. The So-Called Laws of Nature: Part III (Excerpt)
20. Wed (Excerpt)
21. The Death of Ray
22. Stick Figure (Excerpt)
23. Wed
24. Sweet Air
25. The Anvil Chorus
26. Cheating, Lying, Stealing