Happily for them and the rest of us, Damage, the new sound library-cum-virtual instrument from Heavyocity, combines all three. I'd also wager that the same composers wouldn't turn up their noses at some driving, hard-edged rhythm loops, nor turn their backs on a large collection of iconoclastic percussive sounds, noises, textures, hits and kits. just putting a 'bang' in the soundtrack which would make anybody jump, but that's not actually clever film‑making.” (*A cinematic term meaning 'relating to the characters' inner world or narrative'.)Ĭlever film-making it may not be, but there can't be many media composers who would spurn the opportunity to insert a gratuitous bang in their soundtracks if it helped the screen action along a bit. One of the many things that irked the guest was the film's soundtrack: "They made you jump by having extra, diegetic* sound, by making a loud noise that had nothing to do with the story. One of the so-called 'cultural connoisseurs' on the BBC's Review Show the other night was complaining about the recent Hammer film adaptation of Susan Hill's terrifying novel The Woman In Black (starring, as you will have heard, Daniel Radcliffe, lead squirt in the notoriously under-performing Barry Rotter film series). The main screen of Damage's Kontakt 5 user interface. Pass the earplugs, it's Heavyocity's new library! Big bangs, shattering impacts, unabated racket, sonic mayhem, deliberate destruction.