Video: New soundtracks for old slients

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Sounding Silents is a teaching collaboration where students from RMC composes brand new music and sound for old Danish silent films. In addition to RMC and The Danish Film Institute, the Danish National Academy of Music Odense/Esbjerg is also part of the collaboration.

The projects first nine films premiered at Cinemateket’s annual silent film festival earlier this year and can now also be seen – and heard – at Danish Silent Film (stumfilm.dk), a streaming site from the film institute.

Sounding Silents at Danish Silent Film

In the video below RMC students Rosanna Lorenzen and Adrian Barstad Andreasen elaborate on Sounding Slients and the creative process behind their soundtracks.