Jozef Van Wissem- Lute, Electronics, Beats, Electric Guitar, Found Bird Sounds
In 2019 I was commissioned by Cinémathèque Française in Paris to compose the soundtrack to the restored original version of the “Nosferatu” film (1922). When I was writing the score I found a Dutch double 7 inch record with sounds of extinct birds on the streets of Rotterdam. I manipulated these found bird sounds by using electronics and added them to the score.
“ Beginning with a lute solo, his soundtrack incorporates electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. “ My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes, he said, culminating in “dense, slow death metal.” The New York Times