Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore Share Songs From New Film Score
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Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have released three preview tracks from Threshold, their forthcoming score for a documentary about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins. The score is their second joint release this year and broadens their collaboration from a standalone album into music shaped by a real person’s story and a film-makers’ vision.
The newly shared songs are “Cold Open”, “Sick and Tired” and “Gallivare 10km”, with the full project due on 20 November. Threshold accompanies a documentary by American directors Lars and Torsten Brinkema; it follows January’s Tragic Magic, Barwick and Lattimore’s duo debut, which was supported by a joint tour. Lattimore said the film score allowed a wider instrumental range than their earlier record, while requiring the pair to work within the documentary’s narrative framework.
- Three tracks preview Barwick and Lattimore’s forthcoming documentary score.
- Threshold accompanies a film about Olympic skier Jessie Diggins.
- The full score is released on 20 November.
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Julianna Barwick is an American musician known for building layered, atmospheric sound from her voice and electronic equipment. Mary Lattimore is a harpist and composer whose work often combines harp with electronic effects. They began working together as a duo and released their first joint album, Tragic Magic, earlier this year.
Their new project is music written for Threshold, a documentary about Jessie Diggins, an American cross-country skier and Olympic champion. A film score is designed to support the people, places and events shown on screen, so it can involve different instruments and a closer connection to the film’s story than a conventional album.
The documentary is directed by Lars and Torsten Brinkema, American film-makers. Diggins has been a prominent figure in cross-country skiing, a sport in which athletes race over snow-covered courses using skis and poles.
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