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Scott Alario, Alex Somers Used Broken Fan, Frogs For Their ‘Nickel Boys’ Score – Sound & Screen Film


Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross encouraged composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario to experiment with the score for the book adaptation.

Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends surviving a Florida reform school together to the screen. Alario and Somers have been collaborators for 20 years and composed for Ross’ documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening. “A lot of the sounds we included in the score were echoing that feeling of being in your head and experiencing the world, being overwhelmed by an incredibly traumatic experience.”

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