Eraserhead is a film by the American director David Lynch, released in 1977. This surreal and kafkesque film builds through a black and white industrial aesthetic, that is somehow dream like, exposing fears and deep connotations of society. The sound design and music of the film are carefully selected to add tension and to create specific emotions, usually to attack or make the audience uncomfortable. Noise is used repetitively with music, industrial drones made from machines fill the atmosphere, blending perfectly to the colorless of the film. This gave me a new curiosity to explore noise music, specially when its used for other medium apart from film.

I found a great video essay analyzing the sound used in specific scenes of the film. The video is very precise with details and showed me things I hadn’t connected while seeing the film. Currently I’m working on the sound of a friends short film and I was inspired by Eraserhead to use mainly industrial sounds with a more modern approach than the film. I am going to record a wide range of industrial/mechanic sounds and then process them through digital effects, like granulator delays and spectral modifiers.