Alter Ego
Original Score and Sound Design by Radium Audio
Director Rusch Meyer is inspired by a visit to an old disused sanatorium while scouting potential locations for his next project. Exploring the long, dark, rotting corridors, the decaying rooms, he finds himself pondering on the contrasts of tragedy and hope which must inevitably have coexisted in such a place, journeys taken inside the mind which may never have been physically possible, parallel lives lived in the imaginations of the people who worked or were admitted as patients in the building, escaping in their own way the drudgery and despair of their environment. He says
I could sense the history of the place as I walked around, so many stories of disease, death, but also of hope and of recovery, and I started to imagine the different mental states inside of a person who might have worked or been a patient here, and so my idea for the film, a journey between the subconscious and the superego, really grew from there
When Rusch Meyer invites Radium to create a score and soundscape for “Alter Ego” we are immediately captivated by the story unfolding before us in the very early rough cut he sends through. Because the environment has been such a strong influence in the genesis of the project and creates a kind of emotional architecture for our main character, we choose to construct a very organic soundtrack which channels the disintegrating physicality and the air of forboding surrounding her, while following her trajectory throughout the piece.
