Pessi Levanto's score to the magical Norwegian chiller The Innocent, which premiered at the Cannes Festival.

Spending idle summer days in an Oslo suburb, a group of small children find their hidden powers and play turns into a life-or-death struggle. Directed by Oscar-nominated Eskil Vogt, The Innocents is a terrifying horror story about a child's imagination and its fearsome power.

When working on the soundtrack, Finnish composer Levanto had to ask himself if children have the capability for evil. Are they born with moral codes or do people develop a sense of right and wrong growing up? He wanted to find tones to describe how the innocence of childhood vanishes as we grow up.

"To create the musical atmosphere for the movie I used string instruments and cymbals, whose sound has been altered by running the recordings through a number of reel to reel tape decks and sound effects. This way I could create a nostalgic, slightly curious and melancholy soundscape, that reminds us of the world of children, into which adults can no longer enter... often it is difficult to tell where a horror soundtrack's composition ends and the sound effects begin".

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