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Breaking the sound barrier: A director's take on movies, music, adolescence, and politics
On demonlover (2002), Sonic Youth composed the bulk of the soundtrack—the melodies and also the rumbles and frequencies that would be integrated into the sound montage. They gave us their tracks, which I then reshaped, with Olivier Goinard, the sound designer, to fit the images. That's a rarity—musicians are typically in charge of their own mixing and don't often adapt it to the soundscape of the movie. In the studio, Thurston Moore asked me to play the guitar and produce the sounds myself. I didn't dare, and I regret it a little. It wouldn't have amounted to much, but I would've contributed a little to what I've been wanting to do for a long time: create the music for my own films.
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Olivier Assayas is the director of, most recently, demonlover, which will be released in a director's cut DVD next month, andClean, which premiered at Cannes in May.
Translated by David Ng
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