With Halloween coming up, those eerie background noise CDs come to mind. Maybe this soundtrack for the upcoming vampire movie 30 Days of Night could stand in. Composer Brian Reitzell, former drummer of Red Kross and Air, decided to do something a little different with the score.
"I was trying to figure out the different sounds and colors and instruments to use," explains Reitzell. "I thought if someone came at me with an ax or was trying to kill me or eat me, that was going to be such a horrific experience and was going to be totally new and unfamiliar, so I didn't think what I was going to hear was something like an orchestra." So he gerry rigged the pottery wheel with tubing purchased from Home Depot, affixed various items like a drum stick or felt mallet, mic'd the contraption and stood back. " The pottery wheel can spin up to 280 rpm," he says. "You have to wear goggles and body armor. I was scared to death."
We're curious to hear how that sounds, especially in our cars' systems. The CD from Ipecac Records goes on sale on October 30 with a digital version available on the 16th.