Maxx McGathey Music
Film Scoring Projects
LIVE SCORE for
Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
Theremin, analog synthesizer, and wurlitzer underscore this wild early sci-fi flick from the USSR.
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Premiere: January 16, 2024
Chicago Film Society, Music Box Theatre
LIVE SCORE for
Maciste in Hell (1925)
A wild and untamed "metal-free-jazz" score for this outrageous film depicting demons and Hell.
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Premiere: October 22, 2022
Music Box of Horrors film festival
LIVE SCORE for
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
A mix of piano and twisted synth to accompany this tale of concert pianist whose hands are replaced with those of a murderer.
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Premiere: October 23, 2021
Music Box of Horrors film festival
LIVE SCORE for
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Composed for piano, organ, violin, cello and accordion, this new score reimagines this haunting tale that inspired the character of The Joker.
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Premiere: October 19, 2019
Music Box of Horrors film festival
LIVE SCORE for
The Lodger (1927)
A dreamy jazz-noir score featuring wurlitzer electric piano, upright bass, and drum set, for a proto-film-noir tale by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock.
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Premiere: October 13, 2018
Music Box of Horrors film festival
LIVE SCORE for
Nosferatu (1922)
A groovy and dramatic rescore of the first ever vampire film, inspired and performed by McGathey's "doom-funk" band Gramps The Vamp.
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Premiere: October 27, 2017
Chicago Park District's "Movies in the Parks"