In the music for WINTER SLEEPERS – a bit like with the characterization of the protagonists – we tried to combine as broad a musical spectrum as possible into a homogenous whole. In this case, however, we tried to find different styles that still had a similar atmospheric feel.The vortex that was meant to develop in the film, with the mildly delirious, trance-like state of all the characters, had to be carried by the music in particular. Whether via a laconic pop song like "Untitled #1" (by the totally unknown American band ‘Spain’) or through the mystic conspiracies of an Arvo Pärt, whose "Fratres" was for me, long before the shooting of this movie, already one of the main motifs of the film.
The way to the music in WINTER SLEEPERS was in the end also the way to the film’s narrative structure. Some passages were composed to rough cut sequences and these were in turn fitted to the detail of the music. The music was in the end the only smooth way to be able to narrate the simultaneity of five people’s lives.
It streamlines the sweep of the montage and is in accordance with a type of narration that took particular account of fluid transitions and an inconspicuous dovetailing of the different themes.
