Within My Bones

Shiver / Hollow

Gandalf

Lonnie ft. Tilli Grace

Jean

Lyrics by Finn Doyle
Music by Finn Doyle and Tilli Grace

Artwork by Aaron Powell.

Cosima ft. Tilli Grace

Clementine

Written and recorded by Finn Doyle.

Vocals - Eliza Quinn

Oisín

"There is a woman in the wallpaper. There is a woman in the wallpaper and she needs to get out.
Four forgotten women are trapped. They exist in a thin layer of wallpaper that covers the walls of a bedroom in a dilapidated manor. They exist in a gap between two sentences in a short story lost for over 80 years. They exist in the footnotes of medical journals and the background of photographs; they exist in the disapproving glances of men. They exist to be remembered.
Taking inspiration from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's landmark short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper', 'The Wallpaper' is a new devised work that seeks to remember the women that history has forgotten. Reflecting upon the literary stereotype of the "mad woman in the attic", 'The Wallpaper' seeks to reify the narratives of women who have suffered at the hands of society that thought them simply "hysterical"."
- 'The Wallpaper' programme

When designing the sound for feminist theatremaker Stephanie Dimitriou's 'The Wallpaper', I was tasked with composing an adaptive score that could be cycled and pushed forward as the action unfolded on stage. While each of the four women have their own leitmotif, the rest of the composition is perhaps more akin to game scoring than film scoring, with a singular piece of music that incorporates diegetic sound and loops audio within a given scene.
For this reason, and the use of silence in key moments, the score makes the most sense as a singular piece.
Below are the time stamps for each 'scene'.

The most important thing I wanted to do was draw from the history of women in music who have similarly been erased or forgotten. In 'The Filibuster', the score integrates sample audio and rearranged music from four women with fascinating stories, all of whom I recommend looking into:
Fanny Mendelssohn - 'Notturno in G minor' (26:15 - re-recorded and rearranged)
Florence B Price - 'Concerto in One Movement' (26:40 - re-recorded and rearranged)
Laurie Spiegel - 'Harmony of the Worlds' (27:00 - licensed sample)
Nicki Minaj - verse from 'Monster' by Kanye West (27:47 - licensed sample, also used during 'Monster Dance')

All rights belong to the original composers.

Developed & Performed by:
Samantha Hafey-Bagg
Imogen Walsh
Emily O'Connor
Eliza Quinn

'The Wallpaper' scenes:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - The Beginning
9:35 - The Canon Calls
13:20 - CPG's Monologue
16:55 - Boots & Shame
25:34 - The Filibuster
28:05 - Lilith
33:24 - Monster Dance
34:26 - Burial/Escape
39:41 - Epilogue

The Wallpaper (Original Score)

The Wallpaper (Full Score)

Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Finn Doyle makes emotive indie folk music with a distinct atmospheric sound