Brian Reitzell, the former drummer of Red Kross and Air, took an untraditional approach while creating the score to David Slade’s vampire-laden film, “30 Days Of Night,” he turned to a pottery wheel.
“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.”
Reitzell came to worldwide attention over the past decade for his fresh approach to the art of scoring as well as his ability to draw revered and sought after talent into the fold of movie music. Take for instance My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields who signed on to work with Reitzell for the soundtrack to “Lost In Translation” after leaving fans awaiting new music from the guitarist in excess of ten years. “There are no rules,” Reitzell says. “I’m hired to do the music, whether that means I’m picking from my record collection or collaborating with Air (as he did on ‘The Virgin Suicides’) or Spoon’s Britt Daniel (for “Stranger than Fiction) or scoring. Whatever it takes for us to get the music that we envision for the film, that’s what I’m going to do.”
Up next, Reitzell will reunite with Air’s Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, with whom he scored “The Virgin Suicides,” to compose music for a non-existent movie. “It’s probably a sci-fi- type film, but it’s very emotional, maybe someone trapped in a spaceship kind of thing,” he says. “We’re conceptualizing it now. It might be that we take a book or take some images and just start to score to those images and then a film will find us.”
The 17 track score arrives in stores on Oct. 30 via Ipecac Recordings with a digital version online as of Oct. 16.
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