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How Solo Voices Became the Key to the Haunting Scores of ‘Adolescence’ and ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’
Solo voices were key to the haunting scores of ‘Adolescence’ and ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’.
This was the case in two much talked-about streaming series, accomplished in very different ways but with a similar goal in mind: the music of “ Adolescence,” by Aaron May and David Ridley, and of “ Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” by the father-daughter team of Thomas and Julia Newman. For “Adolescence,” a four-hour story about a 13-year-old English boy charged with the murder of a female classmate, the documentary-style filming demanded that any score needed to be handled “so sensitively and so specifically,” says May. Against horrifying images of bloody corpses in their living room, we hear a female vocalist sing the word “hum” again and again over quiet piano and synth sounds.
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