It’s not often you come across Problemista, Julio Torres’s surrealist comedy about a toy designer from El Salvador who makes sexting Cabbage Patch Kids feel reminiscent of a horror film.
But with an eccentric plot and a cast of melancholic characters this unhinged, composer Robert Ouyang Rusli says it was natural to come up with an imaginative score of 53 tracks that run the gamut from enigmatic to euphoric to otherworldly. ohyungli is classically trained in 18th century Romantic-era composition and takes inspiration from rappers like Spaceghostpurrp, and they’re a longtime admirer of sample-based production by Flying Lotus. But what really informed the score of Problemista was their love of experimental ambient minimalists like William Basinski and John Cage, who realized that not all forms of repetition are the same.
“What I loved about this film was knowing I was allowed to go there, so I just had such amazing time writing these melodies and letting them soar in certain places and...
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