Film Music as Polyphony: Explorations of meaning-making in film music through artistic research

This thesis seeks to describe and reflect on music composition to an experimental and non-narrative film directed by Lasse Årikstad. It presents diverse approaches to establish a dialogue between image and sound, drawing inspiration from the use of industrial avant-garde music in the movie Eraserhead by David Lynch to invoke a mood or atmosphere. The film score serves as a starting point for an extensive examination of electroacoustic music and sound within the context of an original film production. The research design employed in this thesis; artistic research, involved using art practice to discover various ways in which this design facilitated the exploration of music production for an …