Augustus Muller – My Animal

Augustus Muller (Boy Harsher) announces the score for the movie My Animal, directed by Jacqueline Castel feat. Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games, Star Wars) and Bobbi Salvör Menuez (I love Dick, Something In The Air). The score marks Muller’s debut as feature film composer.

 

My Animal (premiered at the 2023′ Sundance Film Festival), screenplay written by Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher), tells the story of Heather, a strong, defiant young woman who lives in a rural northern town and desires to play on the local hockey team. She meets and falls deeply in love with Jonny, a figure skater new to the area. Their relationship flourishes despite Heather’s hidden personal struggles with her alcoholic mother, her unaccepted sexual orientation, and a familial curse which transforms her, her twin brothers, and her father into feral wolves once a month. Heather and Jonny’s tryst soon clashes against their small community, exposing the truth and prompting a passionate, violent night of personal transformation.

 

Augustus Muller wrote and recorded the score at his home studio, primarily used hardware and analog synthesizers, in Northampton, MA. With director Jacqueline Castel, Muller pays homage to Klaus Schulze music for ‘Angst’ and John Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ as major influences. Muller embarked on his composing career in 2019, crafting captivating scores for two short films for the adult film site, ‘A Four Chambered Heart’. The scores, titled ‘Machine Learning Experiments’, were released in 2020, showcasing his talent with their innovative soundscapes. In 2023, Muller joined forces again with ‘A Four Chambered Heart’, composing two more scores, entitled ‘Cellulosed Bodies’.

 

Blood Red Variant

 

A1 – Transformation #1

A2 – Sanctuary

A3 – A Walk Home

A4 – A Soft Howl

A5 – Winter Drone

A6 – Patti’s Theme

A7 – Casino Drive

A8 – The Slots

A9 – Transformation #2

A10 – Drone (Dream Theme)

A11 – Soft Love

A12 – Soft Love (Slow)

A13 – Hockey Tryouts

B1 – Back Of Your Car

B2 – Making Love

B3 – Climbing Sadness

B4 – Heart To Heart

B5 – Crybate

B6 – Sudden Loss

B7 – Out Of Time

B8 – Climbing Sadness (The Funeral)

B9 – Outside The Rock

B10 – Something’s Building

B11 – Transformation #3