Darrin Verhagen

Scoring Invisible Boys series (60 min)

Thursday April 17, 5:30 for 6pm

Black Box Multichannel AV Space
Room 12.02.103
RMIT City Campus, Naarm/Melbourne
Straight down the stairs from Little Bang cafe next to the RMIT tram stop on Swanston st
Elevator available nearby the cafe entrance for those with accessibility requirements

Darrin Verhagen uses the experience of scoring Invisible Boys (Stan 2025) and his recently completed book chapter on contemporary developments in screen practice to open a conversation about approaches to film soundtrack.

He will chart shifts in scoring practice from the Golden Age of Hollywood to now. In particular, he will demonstrate with musical and audiovisual examples how historically score has been used to set moral relationships and clear outcome emotions for audiences but is now often being used to communicate aesthetic emotional states, such as in the work of composers Hildur Guðnadóttir, Mika Levi, Ben Frost, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross.

Listening Practice is a monthly gathering of listeners open to all, where sonic research and practice is shared in a dedicated listening environment, with informal discussion encouraged afterward.

Organised by the DSP research group

Free by RSVP with attendees added to the DSP mailing list