The Music

Zero Synthesizers. Zero Violins. Zero Western Music Theory.

In every adaptation of Greek myth or history in existence, they scrub the statues of their vibrant polychrome paint.

Instead of vibrant, lifelike, colourful historical painted marble statues, we get plain white marble statues.

They have done this "desaturation" for almost a century.

Music and film scores have also tragically fallen victim to this bleaching.

In a cinematic world-first, the score of Medusa is composed exclusively with ancient Greek and Roman instruments.

Based on years of academic research into frescoes and marble reliefs, I commissioned, learned, and performed all ~35 known instruments of ancient Greece and Rome.

I worked with the worlds best musical archeologists to reconstruct these instruments, Many of which, only existed as a rudimentary written description on old papyrus.

These were all brought back to life with real wood, bone and bronze.

So yes, in Medusa, you will hear every single known ancient Greco-Roman instrument - almost 1500 years of historical music.

The sounds that you will hear are completely rooted in ancient music theory.

This means no chord progressions or harmony, only ancient heterophony, monophony, Greek modal and microtonal scales.

No one has dared to strip a score back to sonic landscape built entirely from gut strings, bronze gongs, buzzing reeds and resonant regional woods.

Simply, nothing like this exists in the entire history of cinema.

To accompany the score, I wrote 11 original songs in ancient language (primarily the attic dialect).

These songs are performed by Byzantine masters and Greek opera singers.