{"id":105,"date":"2007-05-17T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/joshua\/"},"modified":"2007-06-02T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T18:07:36","slug":"joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/joshua\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the soundtrack to a film called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/joshua\/\"><em>Joshua<\/em>,<\/a> directed by George Ratliff, with Vera Farmiga, Sam Rockwell, and Jacob Kogan, (who weirdly appeared in an <a href='https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/joshuapic2.jpg' title='joshuapic2.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/joshuapic2.thumbnail.jpg' alt='joshuapic2.jpg' class=\"right\"\/><\/a>episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/wonder-showzen\/\">Wonder Showzen<\/a>).  It is a thriller involving a small boy (who is a piano prodigy) plotting against his family; the score is a piano-based score with a lot of orchestral halo.  Fox Searchlight is going to be releasing it in July, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Below, an excerpt from the end of the film, a slow and tense piece.  I am really happy with the way this particular nugget turned out.<\/p>\n<p>[audio:28 Track 28.mp3]<br \/>\n<small>Excerpt from <em>Joshua<\/em><br \/>\nCaroline Pliszka, solo violin<\/small><\/p>\n<p><sm>NB The link above &#8220;\u201c which I will keep up as long as it is extant, has a preview of the film which uses a bunch of my music in the first two thirds, and then when the pace of the preview heats up, the sort of typical <em>Showgirls<\/em> synth drum stuff starts.  Culturally, the way we prefer to indicate &#8220;excitement&#8221; has always been an endlessly fascinating thing to me, because I feel like I have a completely alternate way of getting at this sort of tension.  <\/sm><\/p>\n<p>Joshua was recorded by Dan Bora at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassnyc.com\">Looking Glass Studios <\/a>in September, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the soundtrack to a film called Joshua, directed by George Ratliff, with Vera Farmiga, Sam Rockwell, and Jacob Kogan, (who weirdly appeared in an episode of Wonder Showzen). It is a thriller involving a small boy (who is a piano prodigy) plotting against his family; the score is a piano-based score with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}