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We spoke to composer Brian Mcomber about the Sundance success story FairPlay, his collaboration with director Chloe Domont, and writing music that feels like a slap in the face:
Chloe Domont's Fair Play is perhaps the biggest Sundance success story of 2023. Shortly after the film's January 20th premiere, Fair Play was sold to Netflix for a staggering $20 million, which was the biggest deal of the year. Fair Play is a thrilling ride and a discussion on gender roles, societal conditioning, and competition, all in the context of a romantic relationship. The film stars Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich , who portray the couple at the heart of the film's story.
I'm a musician, so I remember when I was younger in touring bands, you'd go to a festival like South by Southwest, and you'd play a bunch of shows, and hopefully a record label or an agent is there. [So,] I've done that on the music side as well. I think everybody involved with Fair Play couldn't be more thrilled with selling the film for what they did.
I was always interested, as a drummer, in the recording aspects, because the drum set is such a difficult thing to record. [It was], like, "Why don't we try the microphone underneath the snare drum now instead of on top of it?" Looking at images of live performances, I would be very interested to see where the microphones were set up, and that kind of stuff, so really, my foray into film music comes from mostly a percussion and producing background.
They're heavily layered percussion sounds, [and] unusual ones at that. I would smack the body of a cello with a mallet, or I would take a piece of wood and run it across the strings of a cello. We also used prepared piano sounds, really dead, not resonant things, [and] the sound of different kinds of metal, wood, and skin, struck. [When those sounds are] layered, they give these dense textures. [We used] snaps - the sound of a finger snapping, [with] really hard, sharp attacks.
There's [also] a cello line, and I mixed that with a synth, and I ran the cello itself through a bunch of effects to make it sound alien and weird. Everything there was about like timbre, too. Those cello notes that hit are not supposed to be played "good". Everything's being manipulated in ways that hopefully make it sound a little bit alien, but at the same time familiar.
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