In Notes on the Cinematographer, Robert Bresson says, no music as accompaniment, support or reinforcement. No music at all.*

I’ve always been interested in this idea; and, in practice, to limiting the use of non-diagetic music in my films. I USED TO BE DARKER is the first I’ve made in which every music cue has an onscreen source. In addition to the original songs performed by Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor, who play Bill and Kim, the film features music by a number of artists from Baltimore.

I first saw Dope Body play at Whartscape in 2009. Their energy reminds me of early punk bands I wish I’d been old enough to see live, like The Stooges, but stripped down like Lightning Bolt or No Age with more experimental time signatures. When I had the opportunity to shoot a video for their single “Enemy Outta Me”, off Nupping, I tried to capture some of that energy. The video was filmed on B&W 16mm in a basement with the band, and it felt pretty raw, but it was missing the audience to make it feel live. For DARKER, we staged a show in their space on the top floor of the Copy Cat building and invited as many friends as we could. It’s one of the scenes in the film I’m most proud of, because it captures a great performance by one of our city’s best bands at a moment in time when they’re poised to blow up.

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I’ve been trying to collaborate with Dustin Wong on a film score for a while now. In the trailer for PUTTY HILL, we use a song off his album Seasons, but backwards, and the sound is strange and ethereal. In DARKER, there’s a scene in which Bill falls asleep to music in his empty basement, his first night alone in the house after Kim leaves. I asked Dustin if he had a song that might work and he wrote something original, much moodier and sadder than anything I’d heard him write before. In the scene it plays almost as score, until the stereo is revealed and Bill’s daughter, Abby, turns it down. The moment serves as a literal illustration of another one of Bresson’s notes: Image and sound must not support each other, but must work each in turn through a sort of relay.

*Except, of course, the music played by visible instruments.