From the short film Violet Prevails by Nataly Pag

Cue from Violet Prevails - Jem Talaroc

CRUEL HEARTS M31 2 16 09 16 JT

Original electronic avant garde music for the silent film PUTOL by Nikolas Red.

OST from PUTOL (Short Film)

1 Anima Excerpt

5 Mindanao Sketches

6 Pagsamba

9 Kabunyan

Hallelujah (Excerpt) - The Philippine Tenors - Minus One

Passacaglia In Hz - The Pretension Of Jhunmark

Experimenting with Zebra 2 oscillator, fiddling about with the nobs.

The White Stripe Experiment

Inherent in the film’s premise,  a dichotomy of two different cultures are musically represented here; on the one hand, the gongs and bamboos aurally symbolizing the Maguindanaon people and their cultures, on the other hand, the familiar sound of the choir and strings invoke the practices of Christianity. Internal and external struggles with identity and culture brought about by colonization unceasingly haunt the main characters in this film. One can hear such struggles in the music’s bizarre instrumentation. When the Kulintang gongs are pitted against a string quartet over the ambient background of voices and bamboos, clashing dissonances are to be expected, much like the clashing of the western and eastern ideologies in this film. 

A Gutierrez Mangansakan II Film
Written by Teng Mangansakan and Lav Diaz
By Reckless Natarajan Pictures and the 
2018 QCinema International Film Festival

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