A Composer’s Sketchbook | The 1970s Track 48 | Friend is Foe

This one is background music for one of those scenes in a movie where the main characters stumbles across some cluttered information, such as a messy desk belonging to their partner or chief supporter and, as they casually shuffle through, begin to see disturbing hints that their trusted ally is not who they think they were.

The pace of the music almost imperceptibly increases until the discordant notes take on a frenzied, almost frantic cascade, ending in the certainty that friend is actually foe.

Of course, this is just a sketch. The way I’ve described it is how I hear it in my mind with full orchestration.