Brakeless: Why Trains Crash

March 19, 2014

brklsMarch 19th 2014 BBC4 10pm

Made by award-winning Japanese film-maker Kyoko Miyake, it studies one of Japan’s biggest train crashes in modern history, and uses the disaster as a lens to explore post-war Japan’s culture of efficiency above all else.

The music fell into three sections – Driving & time-pressed themes, pretty underscore (reflecting the sunny day on which it happened), and music for the memory of the disaster; I particularly loved making the shimmering, spectral, floating music that I set to the recollections of the crash – completely at odds with the violence of the event and reflecting the calm detail of the survivors descriptions – check the music page.

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