Recently I discovered the music of Ólafur Arnalds who is a musician hailing from Reykjavík, Iceland. I instantly fell in love with his Eulogy for Evolution album and while listening to it I found myself seeing images from the film I made for the Twenty 120 project – Left Unsaid. Left Unsaid is a very personal piece for me and something I have fought internally over for sometime.
Originally the piece was designed to have a score and after a number of variations I cut it to the soundtrack of Hecq’s I Am You from his Night Falls album, but because I had talked alot with Ben (Hecq) while he was writing that piece and understood his reasons for it somehow it felt slightly wrong to use it. Just before I released Left Unsaid we were in the hotel at the Flash on the Beach conference and we realised that the film was more powerful by purely isolating the voice over thus creating a very lonely piece which is one of the main themes of the film.
I struggled with this decision for sometime and although I do love the original version a part of me has always wanted to have a score to it so after hearing the recurring theme to Ólafur Arnalds’ Eulogy I wrote to him asking whether I could use the track 00:40 as a score to the film as it worked so well. I’m honoured and thankful to say that he agreed! Now although I don’t particularly view this as a definitive version but I do love the idea of this as a counterpart to the original which is slightly more accessible for those put off by the intensity of the isolated voice over. Check it out here anyway and let me know what you think. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.
I had to watch the first cut to compare. I definitely like the added soundtrack. Actually I just bought that album from iTunes so thanks for sharing that.
I think the Ólafur track adds a very subtle emotional punch to the piece.
Thanks for sharing. Very beautiful.
Cheers,
Derek.