ADAM
Genre: Drama
Director: Shoki Lin
Selection Cinéfondation, 72nd Cannes Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival 2019
Tirana International Film Festival 2019
Asiana International Short Film Festival 2019
Nominated - Best Original Music, National Youth Film Awards 2019
Tired of his turbulent family life, Adam seeks out an alternative arrangement in hopes of finding his place.
Score Type: Minimalist
Scored for solo clarinet and solo bass clarinet.
For such an intimate film, the challenge was in capturing the alienation and emptiness of ADAM through the music. I went from scoring a pulsing woodwind ensemble to a poignant string orchestra, eventually discarding everything and going down to a minimalist score with just a clarinet and a bass clarinet, to bring out the feeling of this endless, aimless search and struggle to find your place in the world.
Listen to how the two clarinets try to search for each other in this trailer, eventually getting closer. They finally meet, but in dissonance.
Clarinet: Stephanie Tan
Bass Clarinet: Benny Lim Wei Cheah
Recording Engineer: Leon Teo
Recorded at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music recording studio.