half-formed things

David didn’t want to hear her punching him and he didn’t want to hear Rooney screaming at the mugger,” Klyce insists. “He wanted the environment louder than the screams. To do that was quite interesting because it involved going from a place of reality to a more surreal place, yet the sounds were manipulated. I had recorded sounds in 2000 at subways in Tokyo and I used those tones. I had found an almost screeching sound from the subways that would fill in that void with frightening noises, and layered those with the click-clack sounds of the trains going over the rails. That would get louder and louder. On top of that I put the sound of the subway announcer, which was a piercing, concentration camp-type megaphone yelling in your ear.