Earth Over Earth (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

by Matt Orenstein

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1.	Earth Over Earth - Main Title Theme 00:39	buy track
2.	Cooper 00:55	buy track
3.	Owen and Victoria 01:44	buy track
4.	WTF 01:00	buy track
5.	Moon Montage 00:54	buy track
6.	Least Favorite Favorite Shirt 01:48	buy track
7.	Ojai 01:17	buy track
8.	Panic Attack 01:36	buy track
9.	My Purse 01:05	buy track
10.	Followed 00:15	buy track
11.	The Delivery Game 03:17	buy track
12.	Rebirth 00:40	buy track
13.	Is There Still Coffee 01:37	buy track
14.	Cups 01:18	buy track
15.	Hallway 01:04	buy track
16.	Right Side of the Dirt 01:29	buy track
17.	Already Dead 01:57	buy track
18.	Sparks 01:10	buy track
19.	Two Old Widowers 01:02	buy track
20.	It's Time to Go 01:54	buy track
21.	WindWarbleStaticInterferanceDistortionSnow 02:03	buy track
22.	After Earth Over Earth 02:12	buy track

about

Owen Campbell and I went to college together, and would often get mistaken for each other. When we both eventually migrated to LA, apparently people would come up to him at parties (back when there were a lot of parties) and start talking to him about music, thinking he was me. People would greet me as Owen.

We started working together in 2017, and I started scoring his shorts in 2018. He shot Earth Over Earth during the pandemic in 2020, and showed it to me a few months later. I hope you all get to see it; by the time it got to me, it was already a brilliant, claustrophobic piece of work (the claustrophobia was no small feat given that the shoot took place in a relatively empty, open part of California) by the time I came on board. I hope you'll see it someday, so I won't say too much about it, but it's one of the most raw and honest films I've ever worked on. He had temped it mostly with the sounds of actual machines, and given me a list of words to keep in mind as I crafted my score: wind, warble, static interference, distortion, and snow. I think my early attempts at matching the temp and honoring his notes were pretty timid, so he gently nudged me to get weird and throw some stuff against the wall.

There's noise all over this score. Desiccated tape, synth noise of all kinds self oscillating filters, pink noise, dovetailing shepherd tones, modular percussion, etc. As far as the movie goes, the noise is the barrier between the memories we have on the surface, and the memories that live below those. Anything melodic is strained through those walls of noise.

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released September 1, 2022

I programmed, wrote, and played everything. Owen directed the movie, so he and I were in constant communication as I wrote.

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Matt Orenstein Los Angeles, California

Hello, my name is Matt. I live in Los Angeles, and am pretty easy to find.

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