The Story

When his work colleague self-destructs by eating raspberry ice cream, ice cream sales android Clu gets to the bottom of a queasy gut feeling.

Androids Clu and Lia work in a retro-futuristic ice cream parlor. Recently, their work colleague self-destructed. Clu clings to his defective friend, but Lia wants a replacement as quickly as possible.

 

The Music

A modern world as bizarre as the one in Heartware requires a corresponding score. Leander and I decided to use synthesizers to subtly tell the comedy and weirdness at the same time. Through modular systems it was possible to create sounds that are away from classical scales or melodies and create their own randomly generated sounds.
Even though many cues in the film were set to music in this way, the score was still intended to have depth and tell the story of the protagonist Clu and his inner turmoil. So for his emotional breakdown (Rediscovered Feelings) we used a kind of recorder that produced constant, melancholy synth sounds. I think it embeds itself very nicely in the emotional world as well as in the narrative world and brings out the emotions shown even more clearly.

We used a bossa nova for the ice cream parlor as a musical break and as source music. As a well-known, familiar means of telling the comedy and renewed scurrility, this was suitable as background music for the ice cream parlor.

Listen to the score now!

 

Stills




 

Credits

Director: Leander Behal
Script: Jan Lamprecht
Producer: Sabina Stöckler
Camera: Leon Golz
Music: Peter Albrecht
Editor: Sarah Hofmann

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