It's my job to help bring their vision to life so the more I understand how they want the film to feel the better.
Q: How involved are you with the directors, when you collaborated with them on their films?Īndrew Hollander : Very involved.
If it's a full orchestra session then working in Studio A at Avatar is always an amazing experience. I have a live room that sounds really great so anything short of a full orchestra I love to record here. Q: Where is your favorite place to record movie scores?Īndrew Hollander : I record most of my scores at my studio in NYC. I wanted to create a sense of unease that was just beneath the surface. There are very subtle shifts in tone and sound to lean certain scenes a little darker or a little lighter where necessary. Aside from a few cues that have a little bit of electric piano most of the score is a subtle dark soundscape. I created the score with a couple of analog synths blended with some acoustic instruments that I processed and treated until the original instrument(s) was unrecognizable. How have you created the score of this film?Īndrew Hollander : I took a very minimal approach. Q: The My Friend Dahmer score is a minimalistic and haunting affair, pulling from the growing alcoholism and murderous urges of a young monster. I play a little bit of other stuff too, guitar, drums, etc. Q: What kind of instruments do you play and which one is your favorite?Īndrew Hollander : I play piano and all kinds of keyboard instruments. Q: You work as a composer, a songwriter and a record producer. It was all about creating this really subtle psychological unease. This really informed a lot of the score because I had to be sure to always be in the present moment that Jeffrey was in and not jump ahead.
Could you speak about your collaboration with Marc Meyers?Īndrew Hollander : Marc had a very clear vision that the film was not a horror film, but rathera coming of age story about someone who later turns out to be a serial killer. Q: During the Deauville film festival last September and recently in the San Diego Film Festival we have discover the movie My Friend Dahmer.
We wrote and recorded the song in one all just clicked. Please can you talk a little about your collaboration with her on the animated film Ballerinafor the song Runaways?Īndrew Hollander : Carly Rae was great to work with, incredibly talented. Q: we are some Carly Rae Jepsen’s huge fans. That really set me on the path to both score films and be a songwriter/producer. At the same time I started writing and producing different artists which I also loved. Once I graduated I moved to NYC, got hired to score a low budget indie film by a great director who had just come out of NYU and it was an awesome experience. It was at that time that I started composing a lot, studying orchestration, and really being exposed to all kinds of different music.
I played in bands all through high school and then I went to college to study with Yusef Lateef. I started playing piano when I was around 12. Q: Hi Andrew please can you tell us some words about your musical backgrounds ?Īndrew Hollander : Sure. Music - My friend Dahmer : our Andrew Hollander ‘s interview is now online By Mulder, Los Angeles, 10 november 2017