Wouter Jaspers

“A force of aggression in the bravura scenes, the score is a haunting presence in the quiet ones, investing the most banal images—a suitcase on a bed, a car on an empty highway, a naked lightbulb—with dread. Going far beyond the temporary shock effects of conventional scary-movie scores, the composer summons what Edmund Burke defined as terror—something deeper than horror, the sense that the world is infinitely treacherous, that no place is safe, even a comfort zone like a shower.” Hitchcock’s ‘masterpiece’ Psycho was released 50 years ago. I never liked the movie that much, but the soundtrack is thrilling! A good example of what you can do with stringinstruments.