Candyman (2021) - Soundtrack

This is another digital purchase, one in dire need of being upgraded to an actual physical copy, because this score is fantastic.

Since I cannot access the liner notes for this release, at time of writing this collection entry, I had to do a little digging for information on the score. 

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lane utilizes an aleatoric approach to his composing. What this seems to mean is that an element of chance within the primary work is designed specifically for interpretation by the performers. I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, but I might take it upon myself to learn more about it at some point in the future, near or distant. Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows.

Lane would be on location during filming. When the day's, or the night's, filming was completed, he would then record a variety of ambient or musical sounds at that location. Those sounds were then distorted and woven together with modular electronics and voice work.

The result is a powerful auditory haunting. One drenched in ominous and aching menace. In an interview with motionpictures.org, Lowe explains his desire to have his "score can breathe on its own as more of an organism inside of the film." Which it does.

To make achieving that goal easier, Lowe recorded his variation on Philip Glass's Music Box Theme, from the original Candyman, last. Thus insuring its texture and style did not influence or color his original work.