Cue of the Week: “The Mirror”

This week’s cue comes from the score album for the film Home Room. In the accompanying scene, Alicia Browning (Busy Philipps) contemplates her image in a bathroom mirror, having washed off blood from a tragic incident at her school.

The sustained tones in the background would typically be played on a synth, but I recorded a more organic, live-performance alternative: plastic tubes swung overhead. The resulting hollow sound felt perfect for a scene about numbness and detachment.