Sicario Soundtrack Experience
Added on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Posted by Arvid Fossen
PREEMINENT SOUNDTRACK RECORD LABEL VARČSE SARABANDE AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANY CAAST ANNOUNCE THE FUTURE OF SOUNDTRACKS WITH THE SICARIO SOUNDTRACK EXPERIENCE APP! The SICARIO Soundtrack Features Original Music By Academy Award® - Nominee Jóhann Jóhannsson (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, PRISONERS)
(September 30, 2015– Los Angeles, CA) –Varčse Sarabande and CAAST are changing the way you listen to soundtracks with the release of the free SICARIO SOUNDTRACK EXPERIENCE APP, available now on iOS and Android tablet and mobile devices.
The SICARIO SOUNDTRACK EXPERIENCE APP is the first of its kind immersive and interactive music listening experience, presenting film music in a groundbreaking way. Unlike other forms of music, film music is as much a visual and narrative experience as an aural experience. This app features a mixed media, audio and visual, completely interactive swipe-through format creating a new music experience for the viewer.
The app features select tracks from the SICARIO soundtrack album. However, instead of the standard, linear, track-by-track timed experience, the app provides a world where sight, sound, and touch allows the user to interact and engage with the soundtrack in interesting ways – featuring exclusive content curated by the composer, Jóhann Jóhannsson including behind-the-scenes footage of the actual creation of the music, liner notes, and interviews.
This app harkens back to the initial days of vinyl releases, when music was enjoyed not just by putting on a record, but by reading all the notes and looking through the images on the vinyl packaging. The SICARIO SOUNDTRACK EXPERIENCE APP evolves this listening activity by adding adaptive audio technology that allows the viewer to swipe through images, notes, and film footage, while listening to musical tracks that are seamlessly and automatically synched to the changing visual elements.
“Since all the music is looped-based and continues infinitely, the viewer can go at their own pace rather than being locked into a linear listening experience,” described Tara Moross CEO of CAAST, a Cutting Edge Group company (parent company of Varčse Sarabande). “We have changed the paradigm of consuming music content by giving the audience seamless control over what has until now been a passive dimension of their experience.”
“We have been working towards a new way of engaging the Varčse Sarabande soundtrack fan with what we see as the future of soundtracks” said Darren Blumenthal CEO of Varese Sarabande. “Jóhann Jóhannsson was the perfect creative partner to work with on this new endeavor.”
SICARIO debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, earning rave reviews for both the film and the score. Vanity Fair Magazine called the score “rumbling, evocative” and “he [Jóhannsson] has a wonderful knack for balancing eye-popping technical flourishes with more organic texture and mood.”
Jóhann Jóhannsson is a Berlin-based composer originally from Iceland. His varied and eclectic output includes commissioned works for Bang on A Can, Theatre of Voices and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra as well as a collaboration with the New York-based experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison on the film THE MINERS’ HYMNS. His debut album “Englabörn” appeared in 2002 and he has since released 5 solo albums on the labels Touch and 4AD.
Writing music for plays, dance and theatrical performances led to work on film soundtracks. Jóhannsson has scored more than a dozen movies, including THE GOOD LIFE (Eva Mulvad, DK 2010), VARMINTS (Marc Craste, UK 2008) and FOR ELLEN (So Yong Kim, US 2012) before his recent work with director Denis Villeneuve on PRISONERS and Josh C. Waller on MCCANICK. His music has also found a home in art house films across the globe, from Lou Ye’s MYSTERY (CN 2011) to Janos Szazs’ prize winning drama, LE GRAND CAHIER (HU 2013). Jóhannsson was awarded a Golden Globe in January 2015 for Best Film Score for THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, directed by James Marsh. His music for the film also earned Jóhannsson both Oscar and BAFTA nominations for best original score.