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Japanese composer who modeled the original soundtrack
Usually, when an original score is ordered from a musician in the process of film production, it is often done at the stage of storyboarding, or “tentative music” chosen by the director or music supervisor is added to the tentatively edited footage in advance, and the work proceeds based on these images. The same was true for the production of this film. Music supervisor Joe Rudge, who has worked on “Midsummer” and “Ace Grade: The Coolest Me in the World,” selected a piece by the late Japanese ambient artist Hiroshi Yoshimura as the “tentative music” for the film.
Hiroshi Yoshimura is one of the pioneers of Japanese ambient, a genre that has recently been enjoying a worldwide reappraisal, and since the 1980s he has produced a large body of work, not only on record but also in sound objects, performances, and music for various institutions. In his lifetime, Yoshimura was not necessarily well known to pop music listeners in general. However, in the midst of the reevaluation of Japanese ambient music since the 2010s, Yoshimura’s past works became very popular, and he quickly gained a strong following among creators around the world.
Rudge was one of the people who became aware of Yoshimura’s work through this reevaluation frenzy. In an interview with the film information website IndieWire, Rudge said, “Any film is a voice, a voice of its own, a voice of its own, a voice of its own.
The hardest part of any film is finding its ‘voice,’ but we knew that Hiroshi Yoshimura’s music would be the foundation of what we wanted as the score for this film.”
Source: from https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-sound-music-shakira-score-1234739824/
Produce an original score that references Hiroshi Yoshimura. Rich Vreeland, aka Disasterpeace, a musician who had previously done excellent work on “It Follows” and “Under the Silver Lake,” was given this mandate and set to work on the composition. At that point, he was only vaguely familiar with Yoshimura’s music, and the production of each track was a painstaking process (in fact, he produced three times as many tracks as were used in the film). As you can see in the film, Yoshimura’s original score is indeed very effective and has a taste that is very much in line with Yoshimura’s music.
