The official PANDAMNED film score by Adrian Kuipers from July 1st

Last month Filmmaker Marijn Poels and co-producer Milosz Matuschek released the independent film PANDAMNED. A grasping 150 minutes documentary about how the world population has been led under the spell of the coronavirus.

Within one month the film was viewed more than half a million times on its Rumble account. Music composer Adrian Kuipers (1983), who produced the whole film score is now releasing his 16 tracks album ‘PANDAMNED’ including all titles.

Poels met Kuipers last year shortly before the release of his penultimate film HEADWIND where the composer offered to write the title-track of his new film. “Since we only had a few weeks before the release I challenged him to come up with something good, and he succeeded and that was the beginning of a wonderful collaboration and friendship”.

Kuipers, worked in rural Poland for a month on the score.

Question to Adrian; How did you experienced your work for Pandamned and which inspiration you found within the story to make this score?

Adrian: "After seeing the raw version of the film, I really felt the need to experiment with the different frequencies. So I composed parts in 432 Hz and parts in 440 Hz depending on whether the scene was about darkness or light. I guess this isn't done before in any film, since the standard was set to 440 Hz in the 1930's. This way I wanted to enhance the feel of the scene and add another dimension to it.

Most of the music is soundscapes to support the image, but there are also songs that stand alone, such as the title track 'Shine Our Light'. This song came to me when I was in a flow and I felt I had to sing this. And so it was born, a song that might can contribute to a possible solution to the problem we live in. I hope this song will spread as fast as the film did, and the darkness has no where to hide anymore. It is really time to create a paradise on this beautiful earth."

The film PANDAMNED attempted for the first time to paint the whole picture and shed light on the darkness. It has become a relentless stocktaking of our time, which global organizations, governments and big tech companies would have preferred to prevent.

www.pandamned.org