[Exclusive] Hear Composer Leanna Primiani’s Single, ‘Sounds Like Fear’

Have a look at the shorts trailer, and you will see why it’s so controversial. Sulphur For Leviathan is very dark, and Leanna’s writing for this short shows that her skill in creating what the director wants for the film is evident. It has a real life feel to it. You can feel the tones in your bones. It sounds like fear… hence the title.

Leanna says:

“I loved writing the music for this film and loved recreating this track even more. I followed James’ experimental lead sonically by varying the motives in pitch and intensity, composing passages backwards, jarringly cutting short or dramatically elongating musical elements through the use of echo-chamber effects. This coming together of varied auditory experiences cohesively gels into an invigorating and disquieting auditory experience, just like the film does visually.

“The music takes on a ‘variations on a theme’ approach, using the movie’s musical motifs as creative fodder. The film has been visually sculpted to achieve a sensory disorienting experience to heighten its deliciously depraved narrative arc. ‘Sounds Like FEAR’ mirrors this effect through treatment of sound… it sounds like it’s breathing.

“James is a genius when it comes to the concept. The visual quality is both sinister and surreal. The movie juxtaposes black and white scenes against color ones, and it features an arresting array of film textures due to it being shot by a variety of cameras, including Super 8, 16 mm, and the seldom-used amateur 1920s film, 9.5 mm.”

The trailer is vividly strange and is one of the creepiest we’ve seen in awhile. Hopefully, the film will be available soon. For the moment, the short is still doing the rounds at film festivals. As soon as we’ve seen it, we will have a review up. The sheer creativeness of this short makes it a must see, but for now, we can sink our teeth into the ambiance of music from Composer Leanna Primiani.

When she is not working under the moniker ANASIA, she composes for film, TV and the concert stage. Besides Rob Lowe’s The Bad Seed, you can hear her music being performed by The Nashville Symphony, Seattle Collaborative Orchestra and The Aspen Music Festival. Leanna has also conducted orchestras such as The National Symphony, Dallas Opera Orchestra, California Opera among many others.