Madame Tutli-Putli

David Bryant

Musical Director and Sound Design

The film features the haunting and original music of David Bryant, founding member of Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and Jean-Frédéric Messier, composer, playwright and founder of Theatre Momentum. A diverse and eclectic group of musicians can be heard on the soundtrack, including players from Set Fire To Flames, Silver Mount Zion, and the Shalabi Effect. Well before shooting was completed, much of the film’s mood and tone had been influenced by this music, much of which is the result of improvised sessions guided by Bryant and musicians Thierry Amar, Genevieve Heistek, Jessica and Nadia Moss, and Alexandre St-Onge.

In addition to music, Bryant also developed unorthodox foley and sound effects. To create the creaks and moans of the sleeping train, the steel guts of an antique piano were blowtorched and doused with dry ice. The combination of a girls’ choir, a growling bear, a jet engine and a screwdriver aggressively scraping an electric guitar all collide in the controlled cacophony that is the runaway train. In all aspects of the sound and music, the same experimental and avant-garde spirit that informed the rest of the film was embraced.

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Filmmakers

Jason Walker
Special Visual Effects

Laurie Maher
Choreography and Costume design

David Bryant
Musical Director and Sound Design

Jean-Frédéric Messier
Muscial Director

Animation Studio English Program

Marcy Page
Producer

David Verrall
Executive Producer

Credits

story and direction: Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
of Clyde Henry Productions
special visual effects: Jason Walker
puppets, sets, animation: Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
choreography: Laurie Maher
digital compositing: Peter George
production assistance: Kim Billing; Nikki Woolsey; Jonathan McCurley; Eric Goulem
costumes: Lea Carlson; Laurie Maher
character models: Laurie Maher; Eric Goulem; Tao Jiang; Terry Yasunaka; Maciek Szczerbowski; Chris Lavis
sound design, foley: David Bryant
music direction: Jean-Frédéric Messier; David Bryant
sound editing, foley: Olivier Calvert
assistant sound design: Gordon Krieger
re-recording: Serge Boivin; Jean Paul Vialard

Creeper Music, In Prelight Isolate, Rites of Spring Reverb
performed by Set Fire To Flames and Bruce Cawdron, John Heward, Christof Migone Jonathan Parent, Thea Pratt, Roger Tellier-Craig
© 2003 Set Fire To Flames
All rights reserved

The Weight of a Century, Great Men are Strange, Mutation
performed by Jean-Frédéric Messier, Guillaume Bourque, Simon Meilleur, Jean-François Ouellette, Myriam Pelletier, François Préfontaine
© 2006 Jean-Frédéric Messier
All rights reserved

Dusk in the Valley
by Liza Lehmann (1926) arrangement Jessica Moss, Nadia Moss performed by Thierry Amar, Beckie Foon, Geneviève Heistek, Jessica Moss, Nadia Moss, Sophie Trudeau music recording Craig Bowen
© 2005 Amar, Foon, Heistek, Moss, Moss, Trudeau
All rights reserved

special thanks: Craig Small; Benoit Chagnon; Stawomir Debosz; Lysanne Fortier Jay Stephens; Louis-André Fortin; Marc Bell; Maija Harju; Stephanie Biron; Geoffrey Mitchell; S.I. Witkiewicz
digital imaging consultation: Susan Gourley; Pierre Plouffe
offline conform: Jason Lee
online editing: Denis Gathelier
technical coordination: Julie Laperriere; Richard Lesage
marketing: Hélène Tanguay; Mia Desroches
administration: Gisèle Guilbault
production coordination: Elaine Largie
executive producer: David Verrall
producer: Marcy Page