Michael’s score for Touché: A Blind Fencer’s Story has been nominated for Best Music in Film at the Madrid International Film Festival. The film itself, submitted in its shorter version, is also a nominee for the Best Short Documentary category.
Most of the music for the film Against Time was orchestral, but a few guitar-driven cues reflect more personal or homey moments. This folksy/bluesy piece introduces the film’s opening baseball sequence. Every instrument (except kick drum and shaker) performed by guitar-monger Tom Strahle.
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Field Work | |
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Wrapping up the series of music selections from Touché: A Blind Fencer’s Story, this cue falls towards the end of the documentary. Fencer Catherine Bolton makes breakthroughs in vision recovery, suddenly seeing a level of visual detail that had been denied to her since the onset of her condition. It’s hard not to get a little misty-eyed at the moment. I kept the music accompanimental, so as not to intrude on a scene already so rich with with emotion.
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New Sight | |
This piece’s title probably suggests Smith and Wesson firearms, but the scene is actually about blindfolds. These are the means by which sight-impaired fencers insure a fair competition, putting them on equal (albeit highly challenging) ground.
The music, for solo cello with piano, accompanies Catherine Bolton’s reflecting upon her first panicky experience with a blindfold – an initial step on her path towards championship in this unusual sport.
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The Great Equalizer | |
