...And the Score Beasts On

Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer's Beasts of the Southern Wild  continues to bounce around the globe and the web. If you're a Londoner, catch Benh,Dan and Wordless Music performing the score live for a screening of the film July 30th-31st at the Barbican. Details and tickets here. If you're a musician yourself, sheet music for piano can be found here.

While we're talking music, here are some creative tribute videos and reinterpretations of the score we've found across the web, including...

A couple mixed-media interpretations of the Bathtub and it's inhabitants:

"The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the whole universe will get busted" - Beastst of the Southern Wild #beastsofthesouthernwild#hushpuppy#heart#cavepainting#prehistoric#aurochs#nawden#illustration#drawing#moleskine#dream#sketch#createvibes#video#particlesoftheuniverse

A video posted by Lea (@lemontree15099) on Dec 6, 2013 at 10:24pm PST

We're also fond of these inventive instrumentalists:

String quartet rehearsing my arrangement of 'Once There Was A Hushpuppy'... Before I changed the cello part to be more playable. So it's rough but I'm super pumped about how it's going to sound. #weddingmusic #BeastsOfTheSouthernWild

A video posted by Sumerlin Simpson (@sumerlinsimpson) on Mar 28, 2014 at 9:37am PDT

And last but not least, some feats of impressive musical and physical gymnastics:

#oncetherewasahushpuppy #beastsofthesouthernwild Sol glad @jayman292 showed me this song! #winterguard #colorguard #wgi #spinning #letsgetdizzy

A video posted by Thomas (@bluesky94tw) on Jan 16, 2014 at 5:01pm PST

When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me, flying around in invisible pieces. I see that I'm a little beast, in a big big universe. In a million years, when kids go to school, they're going to know, once there was a hushpuppy, and he lived with his daddy in the bathtub.

A video posted by Trevor (@trevor_my) on Jun 28, 2014 at 9:55pm PDT

Is there another video we should add? Let us know in the comments!

Guest Conductor Quvenzhané Wallis at Celebrate Brooklyn!

We'll never forget that night, under a canopy of Brooklyn trees, when Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin recreated their original score for Beasts of the Southern Wild live for an audience of 6,000. The Wordless Music Orchestra and Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers performed along with them while the film glowed bright on the biggest outdoor screen in the city.

Courtesy of Ryan Muir

And then there was this surprise visit from a special guest conductor...

Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin's Score Performed Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra and Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers (with a cameo by a special guest conductor).

Courtesy of Ryan Muir

Photos by Ryan Muir for Celebrate Brooklyn.

Celebrate Brooklyn! presents BOTSW OST LIVE!

The music of Beasts lives on thanks to our friends at Celebrate Brooklyn! They've invited co-composers Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer and the Wordless Music Orchestra to perform the Beasts score LIVE against a music-less edit of the film. It's all happening this summer, August, 8th at the Prospect Park Bandshell and is free to all. We're hoping to press more copies of the vinyl in time for the event, so stay tuned for more info!

Until then, please join, invite and share our Facebook Event here.

And to hold you over, check out this live performance of "Once There Was A Hushpuppy"!

The Creators Project on Beasts

The Creators Project produced a series of in depth videos on Beasts of the Southern Wild including featurettes on the Aurochs, cinematography and soundtrack. While you can find them posted throughout our blog, we thought it would be nice to view them all on one page/post. Enjoy! MAKING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD PART I

MAKING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD PART II

SCORING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

MEET THE STAR OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

THE CINEMATOGRAPHY BEHIND BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

For Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Richardson's modus operandi was to capture the feel of the Southern Louisiana bayou.

Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House!

On Wednesday, February 13th, the cast and crew of Beasts of the Southern Wild including Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, and Benh Zeitlin, were invited by the First Lady Michelle Obama to screen the film and participate in a talk back with 80 students from the Washington, D.C. and New Orleans area. We can't begin to describe what an honor it was to not only receive the invitation but to be able to participate in a conversation about the film with the First Lady and all the students. Luckily, the day was caught on tape and immortalized on YouTube for all to view.

Michelle Obama on Beasts:

"It's a movie that makes us all think deeply about the people we love in our lives who make us who we are. It shows us the strength of our communities, no matter what they look like. It shows us that those communities can give us the power to overcome any kind of obstacles. And it also tells a compelling story of poverty and devastation, but also of hope and love in the midst of some great challenges."