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Argomenti principali: Orchestrazione, Produzione Musicale, Film Scoring, Film Spotting, Music Business
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Karma – Review by Film Score Monthly
Full album available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/karma-atonement/id1211759271
Karma follows a group of young boys whose past behavior catches up with them as they are tested and punished by an embodiment of evil. The film’s horrific score comes
courtesy of Kristian Sensini (Rocks in My Pocket, La Sorpresa). Karma’s opening title track features an enticing arpeggiated idea and a long, lyrical line with a gothic feel. “Staircase” pushes forward with an intriguing melody that again references the arpeggiating figure before becoming more disjointed as it slowly moves upward over a menacing undertow. By contrast, the “Woods Theme” features a soaring
high string idea over rich low strings and a breathy vocalise.
The score overall does a fine job of establishing subtle textures that become creepier as various motivic components float through them, evidenced in tracks like “Tensive
Dialogue” and “Dirty Secrets.” Similarly, many cues feature low pedals and slow builds that add tension, which occasionally releases, as in “The Attic.” The arpeggiated idea
also recurs throughout the album as connective tissue.
“The Cellar” moves us most firmly into horror territory, with close intervals and sudden hits set against a high string drone. After a passage for a music-box melody and crescendoing vocals, the cue moves into a quasi- rock-based section reminiscent of a Richard Band score.
“Abductions” offers more macabre sounds intermingled with low strings, including a cello line that lends an emotional pull to the proceedings. The “Trailer” music wraps up the playlist nicely, providing one last burst of intense horror music.
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KARMA–ATONEMENT Review by BSO Spirit
http://www.bsospirit.com/2017/04/12/karma-lespiazione/
SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE on ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/karma-atonement/id1211759271
Dos premisas arriesgadas, que no mal fundadas: la “resplandeciente” banda sonora de Wendy Carlos para The Shining (1980) es una obra maestra entre las músicas de películas de terror. Alessandro Antonaci rescata (o rinde homenaje) a la esquizofrenia de Kubrick en su adaptación del texto de Stephen King.
La música de Karma tiene un poco de mucho, pero es estrictamente fiel a la naturaleza de las escenas. Acreditado junto al propio Antonaci y Andrea Dentico como responsable de las músicas de Karma, Kristian Sensini se inspira en Carlos para conseguir una partitura efectista y sucinta al clima y el ritmo (poco convencionales) de la película.
Carlos partía en The Shining de una pieza clásica totémica, el “Totentanz” de Franz Liszt. En Karma, esta base clásica parte de la habanera célebre de Carmen, “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”, que Georges Bizet incluyó en su ópera escrita en 1875 y que, con posterioridad, reconoció que había plagiado de una canción titulada “El arreglito”, de la que es autor el navarro Sebastián Iradier… Puede que se trate de la habanera más famosa de todos los tiempos y, para más inri, es la pieza más emblemática de la ópera Carmen.
El escenario de Karma no son las Montañas Rocosas, sino un chalé en las afueras de Metz, cerca de Luxemburgo: Forêt Avril. Los protagonistas no son un matrimonio joven con hijo, sino una pandilla de jóvenes italianos muy modernos, desinhibidos, algo dados a los juegos equívocos, a beber y a fumar… El viejo chalé tiene, encerrado en el clásico baúl de un altillo siniestro un álbum de fotos con la historia desgarradora de un parricidio (que acabó en masacre) ocurrido allí mismo hace unos años y todavía sin resolver. De pronto, nadie de los cinco protagonistas es en realidad quien dice ser y todo se complica con sádicos apuñalamientos de por medio.
Si Antonaci trata de reivindicar el contraste psicológico de luces y sombras, de perspectivas abiertas y cerradas, laberínticas, que Kubrick postuló en The Shining, Sensini no se limita a despachar los requerimientos escénicos con estrofas atonales de Ligeti, Bartók o Penderecki. Pianista y flautista avezado en la composición de partituras para animación, documentales y piezas dramáticas, Sensini profundiza en sus conocimientos clásicos y de jazz para crear el mismo efecto impecable de Carlos en The Shining, pero con mucha mayor libertad creativa. Ganador del Global Music Award del 2013 a la mejor banda sonora de terror con su partitura para Hyde’s Secret Nightmare, este compositor sabe sacar punta al silencio y los efectos auditivos claustrofóbicos para conseguir el mejor empeño de la música de terror: preparar para el gran susto, la sorpresa terrible que puede producirse en cualquier momento…
Se trata de un músico muy joven y con pocos títulos en su haber; sin embargo, ha tomado parte en talleres de composición junto a los verdaderos “dioses” del género: Ennio Morricone, Michael Giacchino, Dave Grusin, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri o Chistopher Lennertz. Lleva años formándose en centros de Italia, Austria y Estados Unidos. En Karma, Sensini pone en solfa las impresiones abstractas del director de fotografía Federico Alotto y despliega una gama musical muy versátil, con momentos pastorales en vistas aéreas y exteriores de gran atractivo turístico, junto a detalles de una oscuridad casi total, cimentando el escalofrío de que cuanto puede ocurrir es siempre peor que cuanto ocurre en apariencia. Los cambios de ritmo son muy frecuentes, a menudo súbitos, impactantes. La tensión sigue un desarrollo lento a la par que espasmódico, difícil de musicar. Sensini aporta su “resplandor” particular a la película con un esfuerzo creativo notable.
LO MEJOR: El terror psíquico, sin efectos especiales ni trucos de ordenador, da mucha cancha a la música y los efectos de sonido.
LO PEOR: Sensini ensaya varias instrumentaciones en las escenas más oscuras sin afianzar ningún tema. La banda sonora adolece de uniformidad de estilo.
EL MOMENTO: Las filmaciones exteriores en contrapicado (muy al estilo del arranque de The Shining) se apoyan en una música enigmática de corte muy clásico.
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My Love Affaire With Marriage
“My Love Affair With Marriage” is the title of the new animated feature film that I’m working on, directed by Signe Baumane.
Our past work (“Rocks in My Pockets”) brought us close to an Oscar nomination (Academy Awards)… we will try again with this exciting new film.
Part of the cast is Matthew Modine an actor that we all know from his participation in the television series “Stranger Things”, but above all for his starring role in Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”.Here’s the news from Variety
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1055277857/my-love-affair-with-marriage
I write because this project needs the help of you and your friends.
The director started a fundraiser on Kickstarter – this independent animated feature cannot rely on the budgets that Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks have.
This project is being made by having independent film fans fund the film, “pre-buying” the movie, which will ensure its production.
Just to explain how the animation business works for feature films, to put a professional actor under contract to dub any character, no matter the budget of the film (independent or a blockbuster), the costs are the same. Consequently an independent producer must pay the same actor rates as the giants such as Disney.
For this I ask you please to click on this link:Please make a small donation, pre-purchasing the film perhaps, or a larger one for some great rewards.
Otherwise spread the word by sharing the link on Facebook, Twitter or email – just getting the word out is critical.
Thanks in advance for helping this little (big!) Project. Independent art needs the support of those who benefit from it – us.
In these complicated times, supporting art and culture (in all its forms) is the most revolutionary act that we can do.
Below is a synopsis of the film in the words of the Director:
“My Love Affair With Marriage” is based on my personal experiences – I have been married two times and could never understand why those marriages didn’t last longer than they did. To unravel this mystery, I set out to research the neuroscience and mythology of love.
I decided to weave my many discoveries into the single story of Zelma, a fiery young woman with a wild imagination, who believes that love will make her a complete human being with four arms, four legs and two heads. Zelma keeps falling in love, but something always goes wrong. She journeys through many marriages, some real, some imaginary, while confronting pressures from society and her own biology. Although the marriages fail to make her complete, they, like baptism by fire, transform her.
This story is driven by 26 speaking and four singing characters. The singers are the chimerical, shapeshifting Mythology Sirens, who, with their seductive songs, lure Zelma into fantasies of everlasting love and never-ending happiness.
One of the best film composers I know is Kristian Sensini of Italy, who scored “Rocks In My Pockets”. Kristian has agreed to join us and write the songs for “My Love Affair With Marriage”, as well as score the film. It is a great honor to work with Kristian again! He is an excellent collaborator who always goes the extra mile!”
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L’anno che verrà
Il 2016 verrà ricordato come l’ Annus Horribilis della Musica perchè ci ha portato via tanti musicisti eccellenti.
Non posso però non ricordarlo come il mio anno Creativo per eccellenza.
Non solo ho lavorato a tanti progetti interessantissimi (che ho incominciato a selezionare con molta più attenzione che in passato), ma ho speso molte energie per la mia Opera d’Arte più importante, il piccolo Leo che è nato appena un mese fa. Ovviamente sono stato supportato dalla mia co-autrice preferita, Agnese, la mamma di Leo.Ho trovato il tempo per rinnovare il mio sito ed inserire samples di tutti i progetti ai quali ho collaborato ad oggi, li potete ascoltare, catalogati per film alla seguente pagina:
https://www.kristiansensini.com/credits-2/ .Ho anche rinnovato il mio canale http://www.youtube.com/kristiansensini nel quale, su suggerimento di molti di voi, ho iniziato pian piano a caricare dei video che riguardano il backstage del lavoro di compositore e soprattutto consigli e suggerimenti per chi sta intraprendendo questa carriera.
Il 2017 si prospetta un anno pieno di impegni, ho inziato la pre-produzione di un film Italiano (“Il Bagno di Venere”), di una serie televisiva e del prossimo film di animazione di Signe Baumane con la quale ho avuto il piacere di collaborare per “Rocks in my Pockets”. Ho invece appena terminato la colonna sonora del cortometraggio “Sharpe” un piccolo capolavoro canadese girato interamente in 16mm.
In primavera pubblicherò anche il mio secondo libro, dal titolo “Il Jazz è un gioco da Ragazzi”, un trattato dedicato ai musicisti ed agli insegnanti che spiega quanto sia importante e positivo (nella quotidianità e nell’insegnamento) imparare ad improvvisare…senza improvvisarsi. E’ il tentativo di riscoprire la creatività che è in ognuno di noi fin da bambini e che crescendo spesso dimentichiamo di coltivare.
Il mio augurio per il nuovo anno è che possiate essere felici, in pace ed in salute, e che nel complicatissimo periodo storico nel quale ci troviamo a vivere possiamo riscoprire la compassione e l’ascolto del prossimo, vivendo con più attenzione possibile e pienezza ogni singolo momento presente.
Del resto è tutto quello che abbiamo.Kristian
p.s. vi ricordo la mia pagina Facebook se volete essere aggiornati, più o meno quotidianamente sui miei lavori 🙂 -
Compositori e festival del Cinema
In questo breve video rispondo ad una delle domande inviatemi sulla pagina Facebook http://www.facebook.com/kristiansensini
Quanto è utile per un Compositore che si occupa di Cinema partecipare ai vari Festival Cinematografici, con lo scopo di prendere contatti con Registi e Produttori e magari lasciare loro del materiale?
Buona Visione
K.
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“La Sorpresa” Review on BuySoundtrax
Soundtrax: Episode 2016-3
April 11th, 2016By Randall D. Larson
http://www.buysoundtrax.com/larsons_soundtrax-4-11-16.html
LA SORPRESA/Kristian Sensini/KeyeStudios – ltd ed cd + digital
Italian composer Kristian Sensini has released his latest score on his own, digitally. Be thankful. Directed by Ivan Polidoro, LA SORPRESA (The Surprise) is a family drama that focuses on the awkward relationship between a father and his estranged daughter, compounded when he suddenly grows ill and she must take care of him; in the process she grows more distant when a male nurse is brought in who provides the kind of loving care she cannot. Sensini (HYDE’S SECRET NIGHTMARE – see my review in my Nov. 2012 column; ROCKS IN MY POCKETS – see my review from the Oct. 2014 column) has provided an intimate score performed by a small string ensemble (violin, viola, cello), supplemented by guitar, flute, keyboard, and voice. The score begins with “Attese” (Expectations), a deeply morose intonation of cello chords that resonates with the sad disaffection between the woman and her father. Sensini’s title theme, with its highly reverberated keyboard underpinning, carries a poignant weight that is less harsh; its melody will drift throughout later cues to paint the family in colors of sympathy and sorrow (In “La Sorpresa 1,” the melody is taken by a synth-violin, while in “La Sorpresa 2,” Sensini gives the melody line to a toy piano, which, in referring to happier and younger days of the family, is quite touching). The awkwardness between father and daughter is adroitly summed up in the colorless measures of “Figlia del Padre,” while the close-miked cello melody evoked in “Padre” paints the father in a much more empathetic light. The voice of Laura Bruno is heard in several cues, including a recurring, hymnlike a capella motif titled “Ana Yelena” whose lyric repeats the titular name in beautiful, double-tracked harmony. The film’s turning point and score’s apotheosis is found in “Ragnatela,” an uplifting harmonic treatment for all three strings over an interplay of muted drums and electric guitar which offers a serene resolution to the distance inflicted upon father and daughter. A drum kit is added for “Un Tango,” adding a nice contemporary pop rhythm to the tango’s string melody and harmony; the drums are also present for the second reprise of “La Sorpresa,” where the melody is presented in a more positive tempo and much brighter harmony, the family’s journey from alienation is finding its reunion and redemption. “Surprise Me” is a pretty pop-styled melody played on keyboards with digital handclaps and drum-kit. LA SORPRESA is a thoroughly engaging and beautiful score, deeply honest and moving in its sensitivity and treatment of its subject matter.
The digital album is available on Italian iTunes and Amazon and elsewhere in the US. A signed CD edition is available in limited quantities (100/c) from CDBaby.- Listen to music samples at kristiansenini.com
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“La Sorpresa” review by Film Score Monthly
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/fsmonline/main.cfm?issueID=133
Soundtrack Available Digitally on Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/la-sorpresa-original-soundtrack/id1069855608
Limited Edition (100) Cds available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kristiansensini3
KRISTIAN SENSINI
Promo
15 tracks – 38:08La Sorpresa, directed by Ivan Polidoro, follows a daughter whose increasingly ill father requires more attention than she can provide. Enter Rocco, a male nurse who begins to care for him as the daughter looks for answers as to why her relationship with her father has disintegrated over the years. The score is by Kristian Sensini, who garnered some attention for the recent Rocks in My Pocket.
Sensini’s intimate opening cue, “Attese,” begins with a string quartet setting of a series of harmonic pulses, and a low flute for contrast. The writing here has an almost chorale-like quality as it begins to reveal a thematic thread. In the first title track, the music takes on a more melancholy tone, with muted keyboard and electric violin. The material can be quite touching, partly due to the small chamber style, as in the beautiful “Devotio.”
A jazzier feel comes into play in tracks like “Figlia del Padre,” which features a pained motif against a stark backdrop. The haunting vocal in “Ana Yelena” has an almost medieval quality, a flavor continued via the string ensemble in “Ragnetela.” The hypnotic “Surprise Me” provides a slightly more contemporary vibe, similar to trance music. “Un Tango” is a nice change of pace with more of an emphasis on rhythm, before the disc closes with a piano version of the title theme.
La Sorpresa is a haunting little score with ideas that unfold slowly in a mesmerizing, quasi-minimalist fashion. There’s a bit too much repetition of material across the album’s brief playing time, but the tracks are well sequenced. —Steven A. Kennedy
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“La Sorpresa” OST review on MUSICA DE CINE BLOG
http://musicadecineblog.com/2016/01/12/kristian-sensini-la-sorpresa/
Soundtrack Available Digitally on Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/la-sorpresa-original-soundtrack/id1069855608
Limited Edition (100) Cds available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kristiansensini3
La Sorpresa. Comentario.
Por Javier Pelegrín Parra.
Ya en los primeros compases que nos conducen a través del film del también italiano Ivan Polidoro, observamos el auténtico motivo emocional de todo el score, que no es otro que el intimismo del triángulo de los personajes del padre, la hija y un enfermero. Toda la historia es un continuo drama opresivo, que nace con la pieza “Attesse” que marca el inicio mediante la lógica expectativa como se traduce de su título, la desazón de las cuerdas y un estado casi opresivo en su totalidad.
El score salta con el tema “La sorpresa 1” hacia un vacío que se recoge mediante los sintetizadores y que complementa su melodía con el tintineo que acompaña a “La sorpresa 2”; luego procede a jugar con el tic-tac del paso del tiempo y las notas discordantes del piano como en “Figlia del padre”, el pop new age de “Come sopesa” y la interpolación de la cuerda con el synth de percusión de “Ragnatela”.
Pero donde el score gana y crece con más fuerza es en el instante en que más clásico se torna: el solo dramático de “Padre” con una cuerda que roza la oscuridad y la pena, o la mejor pieza de la banda sonora que es la esperanzadora “La sorpresa”, un tema optimista, palpable a los ojos detrás de nuestros oídos que finaliza entre las olas de un mar totalmente chillout. Este tema se debe entender junto a la versión de piano del mismo título que cierra la partitura y que destaca desde el intimismo que se nos es narrada.
Hay que subrayar el uso de la voz que se nos muestra en las tres partes de “Ana Yalena”, que, por así decirlo, parecen seguir un guión coral de principio a fin mejorándose las unas a las otras. Son resoplidos minimalistas que cuajan en la mente de quien las escucha pero que a la vez dan la sensación de ser más sintéticas e irreales que puros susurros vocales, lo que nos deja una sensación agridulce.En el sentido general, la obra es buena, llegando a ser notable cuando más intimista se vuelve; cuando el piano es el que balancea y hace avanzar esas cuerdas tan bien hilvanadas en pos de una melodía muy bien construida en su conjunto.
Si bien la parte de los sintetizadores se puede entender, hubiera sido más dramática y profunda aún si cabe, sin tanta presencia de ellos.
Seguiremos la pista a Sensini y sus nuevos aportes en los venideros años que de bien seguro contarán con sus notas cerca de nuestros ávidos oídos sedientos de cine y bandas sonoras. -
La Sorpresa
Premiere 10 December 2015 (Italy)
Scroll Down to listen to samples and for English Translation
È la storia di un rapporto a tre, non voluto ma necessario. Protagonisti: il padre, la figlia, e l’infermiere. Teatro dell’azione: Potenza.
Costretto da un improvviso malore del padre Antonio, Adriana, la figlia ventenne si trova a dover fare i conti con la realtà. Da subito si rende conto di non essere capace ad assistere il genitore, un imbarazzo innaturale li circonda. Troppi anni sono trascorsi e troppe bugie sono state dette. Il loro è un dialogo sterile fatto di domande apparentemente senza senso.
Tra i due, Rocco, infermiere solitario e misterioso, che fa del suo lavoro l’unica ragione di vita. Il suo modo ossessivo e maniacale, l’amore che ci mette nell’accudire Antonio, quasi fosse lui il figlio, è la dimostrazione di come un estraneo riesca là dove la famiglia fallisce. Alla giovane Adriana non rimane che assistere impotente e cercare le ragioni di tutto questo, come padre e figlia possano essere così distanti.
La morte della madre, il segreto che nasconde, è uno dei motivi. Il padre è ormai stanco, vuole solo morire. La sua è una richiesta, assurda – come assurdo è il saggio di Camus (Il diritto e il rovescio) che Adriana studia all’università.
“La sorpresa” è nella storia e nel suo svolgimento, nelle microtrame al suo interno. E ad una richiesta di libertà.__________________________________
It’s the story of three people and their relationship, unwanted, but necessary.
The protagonists are a father, his daughter, and a male nurse. The setting is a city in the south of Italy: Potenza.Following the sudden illness of his father Antonio, the twenty-year-old Adriana is compelled to face reality.
She immediately realizes she’s not able to take care of his father because of an unnatural awkwardness. Too many years have passed and too many lies have been told.
They live on meaningless dialogues, and apparently insignificant questions.
Rocco is a nurse, a lonely, mysterious man who lives for his job. He looks after Antonio with obsessive manners and tender affection – almost as a son would do – proving that a stranger can succeed in doing the things a family cannot do.The young Adriana watches helplessly while she tries to look for some answers as to why a father and a daughter can be so distant.
Her mother’s death, the secret she’s hiding, is one of the reasons.
His father is tired, he just wants to die. He has got a request as irrational as Camus’ essay (The Wrong Side and The Right Side) which Adriana is studying at University.
“The surprise” is in the story and in its unfolding, in the inner micro-plots. It’s a call for freedom.
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