JAMIE CHURCH
(composer)

It only takes one listen to the score of TRAP to get a sense of the dynamic talent of Jamie Church, the sort of composer who knows how to enhance the life of a film with his music. The aural landscape of TRAP is a tricky, creative and detailed as the story itself, a culmination of the wide variety of instruments Jamie has taught himself to play (he plays every note on the score himself) and the influences, like Lou Reed, David Bowie and Muddy Waters, that drew him to music in the first place.

Enticed by director James Bonner’s passion, “as well as the odd, existential aspects of the film,” Jamie agreed to compose his first ever movie score. He has played in Michigan-based rock bands and has collaborated on various CDs, every one of them an exploration in genre-bending. It’s this open-minded approach, says Jamie, that “helped me evolve in the search for the musical heartbeat of TRAP. I don’t see specific classifications [of musical genres] as rules.”