
A new film composer, Hélène Muddiman, is yet very experienced in various mediums having provided music for the entertainment industry since she was eighteen. Writing in a style across a wide variety of musical genres, her music can be heard in film, television, radio, and multi-media advertisements. Here score for acclaimed movie SKIN is a varied, beautiful and touching score that contains such rich melodic themes, emotive musical passages, elegant nuances and eloquent accomplished performances that one cannot fail to be impressed and moved.
Q: Your score for SKIN attracted a lot of attention and quite rightly so. Did you carry out a lot of research into Instrumentation and sounds for this project?
Hélène Muddiman: Yes I was a slave to the internet, I decided the best use of the numerically challenged budget was to buy or hire some authentic instruments like Koras, Kalimbas, percussion and even Berimbau. (Not strictly South African, but we used poetic license.) I played many of these instruments myself on the score, (with the help of ProTools) 😉 Continue reading Hélène Muddiman