Songs for Screens: How did you get involved with the show?ĭev Hynes: I was a very big fan of films, and so I guess he had reached out about using my Blood Orange music in the show. Songs for Screens caught up with Hynes to learn more about his “natural” collaboration with Guadagnino on the score for “We Are Who We Are,” including how he composed its “emotional themes” and how he hopes to resume making music again soon. A third project, the film score for Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing,” is expected in 2021. Another film score, for the Andrew Garfield-starring social-media satire “Mainstream,” recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival and reunites him with “Palo Alto” director Gia Coppola. In addition to performing the series’ piano, synth and cello-laden score, Hynes will play himself in a concert scene as Blood Orange for the series’ first-season finale later this fall.

His first TV series score, for “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino’s coming-of-age-in-Italy drama “ We Are Who We Are,” premiered last night on HBO. Still, the fruits of his early quarantine productivity will be rolling out for months to come. I do think as I’m getting older and my energy is definitely not in its twenties, maybe the separation is good.” I think I’ll start making music soon, but It’s strange. “I just got back to New York to move out of my studio, so I’m kind of surrounded by equipment now. “It’s a weird time - I don’t really know what I’m doing,” Hynes says over Zoom from his New York apartment, surrounded by instruments in his makeshift home-studio setup.

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