Kingfish - Original Score

Thursday 26 March 2015
Kingfish

David recently finished scoring the film Kingfish, directed by Justin Spray, which tells the story of Rudy, a troubled Caribbean fisherman, as he struggles to prove his worth to his wife and fellow crewmembers, trying to convince himself as much as them that he has what it takes to be a "real man".

The nature of Kingfish's psychological story required an unorthodox musical approach, and instead of a conventional narrative score David used a mixture of electronics, synthesisers, distorted samples, and live recordings of a string orchestra playing avant garde techniques to create a soundscape that penetrated Rudy's paranoia and projected his extreme discomfort as it unfolded during the film, culminating in a devastating climax.

This was David and Justin's third collaboration, having previously worked on 'Tis Folly To Be Wise and A Deep Breath, the latter of which had award-winning success at the Festival Mondial de l’Image Sous-Marine in Marseille last year.