Scott Alario, Alex Somers Used Broken Fan, Frogs For Their ‘Nickel Boys’ Score – Sound & Screen Film
deadline.comNickel Boys brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends surviving a Florida reform school together to the screen.
Director RaMell Ross hired Scott Alario and Alex Somers to create the music, and the composers found inspiration on location in New Orleans that Ross encouraged them to explore. “Some of [the sounds] were a broken fan that was in a bathroom,” Alario said during a conversation and performance at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film music showcase event on Friday. “Alex heard it and was like, ‘You have to go in there and record that fan.
It sounds so interesting.’ I said, ‘Yes, You’re right, I will do that’ and we did it. We weren’t sure it would make it into the film but It’s in there.” Alario met Ross when they were students at Rhode Island School of Design.
Alario and Somers have been collaborators for 20 years and composed for Ross’ documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
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