A New Live score to Carl Theodore Dreyer’s A Passion of Joan of Arc, written by Adrian Utley and Will Gregory
“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land no one can ever tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in the studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
Carl Theodor Dreyer
“I feel we’ve achieved a good balance between playing to the emotional side of the film without making our music overly emotive. The film can play without music at all and still be very powerful and self-explanatory. Our choir and drone guitars helped us to stay with the genre but also gave us good scope to explore musical territory that had not been over done or force-fitted from another world of music.”
Adrian Utley
“Creating music that runs alongside picture is an endlessly fascinating and rewarding puzzle. So much of my favourite music is film music. It provides opportunities for a very mongrel and impure collision of styles, genres and instrumentations that can throw up something totally original that would never have been arrived at through musical calculation alone.”
Will Gregory