Detroit techno icon Jeff Mills is no stranger to scoring films. Back in 2000, The Wizard shared his re-imagining of Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis, and earlier this year he contributed a score for the director’s The Woman in the Moon.
For his latest endeavor, Mills tackled Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’enfer (Inferno) in collaboration with classical pianist Mikhaïl Rudy. The duo performed their conceptual soundtrack live at the Louvre in Paris.
Rudy cited twentieth-century composers John Cage and Olivier Messiaen as his primary influences during the project, and Mills explained that “the process required numerous discussions and meetings. Obscure ideas and visions about what time meant had to be laid out and imagined…”
The live album When Time Splits: Live at Auditorium du Louvre, Paris will be released on Mills’ Axis Records in late April. You can check out the tracklist below:
Tracklist
01. Landscape Abstracts
02. Face Verses Face
03. Time Mechanic
04. Scream
05. Black and White
06. Promising Calm
07. The Eternal Burning Beauty of Fire
08. Impossible Love
09. Psychedelic
10. Wagner Encounter