Immaculate composer Will Bates has composed original scores for Larry Fessenden’s Blackout and Immaculate director Michael Mohan’s thriller The Voyeurs, also starring Sydney Sweeney. Bates is sharing his “Sister Cecilia” track from the upcoming Immaculate score with Fango readers and giving us some insight into his process.
“A lot of music needed to be written during the film’s production, and creating those pieces was the starting point for the tone of the score. Amongst those was the hymn which Michael wanted the nuns to sing on camera.
Its tone is a reflection of Sister Cecilia’s own feelings of spirituality at the beginning of her story, a sense of wonder and awe. It needed to sound ancient, but somehow specific to this particular sub-sect of the Catholic Church. Dusting off my high school Latin I wrote a piece using sections of the Te Deum set text.” Let’s have a listen.
How did Bates achieve that specific sound of silvery strings layered beneath the vocals? “I used a Hungarian Zither as my starting point for the piece, which has its own very specific modal folk scale. Moving forward with the score, I often used this scale as my tonal center, it places some of the more familiar ecclesiastic tones in an unfamiliar setting.”
Here’s the full track list for the upcoming Immaculate score album.
- Our Lady Of Atonement
- Sister Cecilia
- Red Veiled Nuns
- Death Is A Part Of Everyday Life Here
- Vows
- The Te Deum
- Chapel
- Benedicta
- Miracle
- The Bathhouse
- It Was Supposed To Be Me
- Blood Stained Sheets
- You Will Never Leave Here
- Father Tedeschi’s Chase
- The Vault Of Sorrows
- Catacombs
- Blessed Are The Meek
- Ave Maria
