John Kelly asked me to make the music for his newest animated short, Rat Story - about what happened one time in London when he woke up with a rat on his chest at 5am.
I’m a very big fan of John’s work and it was great to work on this project with him, it was almost a bit like being in a band with him as he had very definite ideas of how the music could help the story.
Korg Berlin gave us an early prototype of their acoustic synthesiser Phase 8 and I also used the percussion modules from Polyend, the PERCS - to play the rhythms on a wooden palette. A lot of interesting and fun ideas to create a sense of playful menace to accompany the masterful storytelling and animation, a real joy to work on this one.
It will have its premiere on Nov 19th. at the Cork Film Festival.
Rich
