Silent Film Projects

Original electronic scores created for Frequencies Seeyousound a festival dedicated to electronic music and contemporary resonorizzations of archival silent cinema. The program invited composers to reinterpret historical films through modern sonic language.

Filmstudie (1926) — Hans Richter

Archival experimental film — resonorization for Frequencies Seeyousound a, 2022

An early work of German avant-garde cinema, Filmstudie explores abstraction, rhythm, and visual montage without conventional narrative. The score engages with the film’s structural movement, emphasizing pulse, texture, and spatial layering to mirror its geometric transformations and surreal visual flow.

Keywords: electronic · abstract · rhythmic · textural · experimental

The Soul of the Cypress (1921) — Dudley Murphy

Archival poetic narrative silent film — resonorization for Frequencies Seeyousound, 2023

A lyrical silent short often described as a visual symphony, blending landscape, dance, and mythic imagery. The electronic score adopts a more atmospheric and thematic approach, supporting the film’s symbolic narrative and emotional progression through evolving textures and restrained melodic gestures.

Keywords: atmospheric · mythic · electronic · lyrical · cinematic reinterpretation