Lilliseed

Unless you count scores for homemade VCR epic movies like Pig Murder Valley and Wrath of the Booger, which were made by me and my buddies in our mid-teens, Lilliseed was my first score for a (officially released) short film. For those, among other reasons, it holds a special place in my heart. I like that this score sounds kind of rough, like a piece of squeaky old wood – or rather, like a small, dysfunctional chamber orchestra.

Having worked with director Hanne Larsen on the Norwegian children's TV show JUBALONG in 2007, she wanted me to compose the score when her newest short film Lilliseed was about to enter production in 2008. Hanne had just received the Amanda (the Norwegian equivalent to the Academy Awards) for best short film, for Cairn ("Varde"), and was eager to move on to her next project. For the ambitious Lilliseed, she needed a score that would help tie together two parallel worlds – a real world, and a fantasy world of pirating. The fantasy world is big, colourful and bombastic, while the real world is sort of bleak and downbeat. Matching those two worlds, separating them, while still sort of melding them together in a weird and symbolic sort of way, was the goal. The film is 15 minutes long and it contains 13 minutes of music, so it's pretty much scored wall-to-wall.

A soundtrack album of LILLISEED was released on Pling Kong Recordings in 2012.
Click here to listen to the album on your favourite digital music service, or use the embedded Spotify player below.