Director : Angela Clarke Producer : Gannesh Rajah Composer : Stuart Fox
IN PRODUCTION
Imagine hearing every internal sound your body makes—eyeballs moving, blood pulsating, bones creaking—while no one believes your truth.
For the documentary I Can’t Get You Out of My Head, I set out to find a musical voice that could reflect this intense, internal world. It was a unique challenge: the film is deeply sound-design driven, with a sonic landscape that feels almost like a character in its own right. The music needed to exist within that world—never competing, never overwhelming—yet still emotionally guiding the audience through the experience.
To achieve this, I blended unconventional sound sources including singing bowls, bowed wine glasses, and experimental techniques such as swinging a microphone on a cable into the edge of feedback. This created organic, internal-feeling thuds—somewhere between a bass drum and the sensation of hearing your own body from the inside. These elements were shaped and processed, then merged with more familiar instruments to form an understated musical backdrop that complements the film’s distinctive sound design.
Other moments called for more ambient, guitar-driven textures fused with subtle sound-design-inspired layers, adding emotional depth without revealing story details or interfering with the film’s carefully constructed sonic reality.
The full score was then mixed in immersive surround by Cranc, allowing every nuance—from quiet harmonics to visceral low-end pulses—to sit precisely within the film’s wider auditory world.
This project has been a rare opportunity to explore how music can support a narrative where sound itself carries so much emotional and psychological weight.