Kira has composed the score for DR’s new drama series Generations.

It premieres on Danish television on April 11th. The series has already been sold to several countries around the world and recently premiered at the “Series Mania” festival in France.

Kira shared some insight into how she became involved in the production process:

About a year and a half ago, I was contacted by Anna Emma Haudal. She had listened to my music while she was writing the script for DR’s upcoming Sunday series, Generations, and asked if I wanted to write new music for the series. That was the beginning of a long exchange. I had already written a handful of songs that spoke to the series’ theme – family secrets and what it does to us to carry them with us. Anout how trauma can be passed down through generations as invisible traces in our DNA. It turned into a full-length album released on May 16 titled WHAT TIES US TOGETHER WILL KEEP US APART.

I developed and composed the score in close collaboration with my partner Silas Tinglef, who recorded, mixed, and played countless instruments, with significant musical contributions from Maria Martine Jagd on strings. Many of the series’ themes are fragments of the songs that will be featured on the above-mentioned release.

It has taken hours, days, and months to implement the music in the series and make it a natural part of the series’ sound design. I have worked closely with Peter Albrechtsen, who has shown me the way into the world of film. Let me put it this way. I’ll never look at a movie or series the same way now that I know there’s a thought behind every creaking door and the way the gravel crunches under my shoe on the path.

Much more about this collaboration and the other contributions over the coming months.

The series premieres April 11 on the web and April 13 on flow.

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For godt halvandet år siden blev jeg kontaktet af Anna Emma Haudal. Hun havde lyttet til min musik i hendes igangværende skriveproces af manus til DRs kommende søndagsserie Generationer og spurgte om jeg havde lyst til at skrive ny musik til serien. Det blev begyndelsen på en lang udveksling. Jeg havde allerede på det tidspunkt skrevet en håndfuld sange som talte ind i seriens tema, om familiehemmeligheder og hvad det gør ved os at bære dem med os. Hvordan traumer kan videregives gennem generationer som usynlige spor i vores dna. Det blev til en hel plade som udkommer d.16 maj med titlen “What ties us together will keep us apart”

Jeg har udviklet og komponeret scoret i tæt samarbejde med min partner Silas Tinglef som også har indspillet og mixet, samt spillet utallige instrumenter og med væsentlige musikalske bidrag fra Maria Martine Jagd på stryg. Mange af seriens temaer er fragmenter af de sange som bliver at finde på den ovennævnte udgivelse. 

Det har taget timer, dage og måneder at få implementeret musikken i serien og få det til at indgå som en naturlig del af seriens lyddesign. Jeg har her arbejdet tæt med Peter Albrechtsen som har vist mig vejen ind i filmens verden. Lad mig sige det sådan. Jeg kommer aldrig til at se en film eller serie med samme blik, nu jeg ved at der ligger en tanke bag hver en knirkende dør og den måde hvorpå gruset knaser under skoen på stien.

Meget mere omkring dette samarbejde og de øvrige bidrag over de kommende måneder. 

Serien har premiere d.11 april på nettet og d.13 april på flow.