{"id":6885,"date":"2013-08-14T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2013-08-14T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:21:45","slug":"mp3-antiviral-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6885","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Antiviral (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label: Lakeshore Records<\/a>\/ Released: May 21, 2013<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 21 tracks \/ (42:28)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: Digital album only.<\/p>\n

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Composer: E.C. Woodley<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

In addition to performance, sound design, and experimental projects, E.C. Woodley\u2019s been scoring films short and long since an apprenticeship with Michael Kamen on Brazil<\/strong> (1985), and his latest work \u2013 Antiviral<\/strong> for cousin Brandon Cronenberg \u2013 features an arresting and hypnotic melding of organic and digital sounds.<\/p>\n

It takes a little while to settle into the score\u2019s slow-burning groove, but Woodley\u2019s written a discrete and engaging immersion into the younger Cronenberg\u2019s own brand of surreal horror.<\/p>\n

Basically built around four alternating notes initially heard on soft keyboard, Woodley quickly strips down his quartet of resonating tonalities into saturated bass chords, and gradually layers in fuzzy pulses and synth drones, with an intermittent cello that\u2019s been enhanced to sound neither organic nor synthetic.<\/p>\n

The score\u2019s most affecting quality is the way tones and soft textures seem to breathe, and no matter how much the electronic elements may distort, they\u2019re all kept in a range that\u2019s weirdly soothing. Not unlike the work of Cliff Martinez (Solaris<\/em>), there\u2019s a dreamy quality to the whole creation, with no sharp edges or dynamic shocks, and while ostensibly a work of electronic minimalism, the score offers a fair amount of emotional scope.<\/p>\n

Connoisseurs of melded sonics will relish the balance of moods, and the sleek way Woodley\u2019s motifs seem to breathe, be it oscillating tones and flanging brass\u2013like drones which come close to saturated feedback (\u201cSyd, Hannah, Needles\u201d); or the beats of the piano theme which become lumbering percussion hits in the film\u2019s dream sequences.<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s running time is very satisfying, but after a couple of spins one kind of wishes this digital album not only existed on CD, but as a special DTS album with longer versions, giving the listener more than an hour to be fully immersed in the clinically deranged world of Antivirus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

An interview <\/a>with composer E.C. Woodley is also available.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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IMDB <\/a>— Film Review — \u00a0Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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