“That’s the pursuit of having an engrossing, psychedelic life. I try to be open to everything.' Composer Mica Levi opens up about creating the offbeat, pitch-perfect score for the hit movie 'Zola.'
.) But, for Levi, the “signature sound” is about “pacing and placing.” “Those sort of decisions, to me, can be more distinctive than melodic material,” they say. “Maybe a ‘signature sound’ can be more to do with how sound interacts with a film, as opposed to what the texture of the sound is.”. The film, which is based on a Twitter thread about a stripper’s road trip gone absolutely haywire, represents a leap in Levi’s career. Funnily enough, Levi doesn’t even have a Twitter account.
Throughout the film, there are many sounds reminiscent of jewelry boxes, toy pianos, and glockenspiels. These too convey themes of innocence — but, alternatively, they also suggest that the lead character is trapped in a game that their counterpart, an outlandish Lolita, is playing. “It’s probably a good mix of both of those things,” Levi confirms. “It must’ve all come from that sort of thing — being drawn to sweetness.
One of the few specific things that Bravo told Levi to take into consideration for implementation were sound baths. “Janicza talked a lot about crystal bowls and rose bowls, and those tones kind of being the inner-core of Zola’s navigation system.” Considering that Zola, the character and film’s namesake, serves as the one steady point in a cyclone of colorful chaos, this makes a whole lot of sense. Sound baths ground people in the way that Zola does to the story.
They’re also not focused on expanding their skillset as much as they are their mind. “I think I just want to be engaged in the pursuit,” they say, explaining that their abilities sharpen naturally as they continue to play around with sound on a daily basis — without consulting any sort of rulebook or regimen. Levi stresses the importance of keeping “your spirit on point” and believes that different films “push [them] into new directions of understanding.
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