Dave Merson Hess

GENRE: Electronic, Soundtrack

Label: Headphonica
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:32:02
“Music from the film PRESENCE” is the score for an independent/cult science fiction film which has premiered in June 2009 at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) in Seattle, Washington, USA. The film is heavily influenced by Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Werner Herzog’s Wild Blue Yonder, and the films of David Lynch. It was shot in downtown Los Angeles, CA, mostly at night. It uses music heavily, as well as public domain and stock footage from the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. to tell its story.
As a film, PRESENCE is at once visually beautiful yet stark and unsettling, pairing long, elegant shots of downtown Los Angeles with bleak, startling footage of disasters, both real and fictional. When composing for the movie, I knew I had to provide a score that would blend seamlessly with the visual elements of the film to enhance the sense of acute loss and impending dread experienced by the film’s protagonist. The movie is at some moments frightening and horrific yet at others tender and nostalgic, so I worked with director Bryan Kramer to emulate those emotional shifts while creating a score that was consistent as a whole.

TRACKLIST
01 – Onomatopoeia
02 – Didn’t Used To Be This Way
03 – I Like Dogs
04 – What Is Its Vessel?
05 – Blur And Bleed
06 – Haunted Kid
07 – Like Dominoes
08 – Friends…Home
09 – Subway Sleep
10 – Fisherman
11 – Love Theme Intro
12 – Love Theme
13 – Static/Headtrip/Tinkly Piano
14 – Drive
15 – Caught In A Fingerprint
16 – PRESENCE Theme
17 – Drive Outtake (Bonus Track)

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