Graveyard Mountain Home - Composition

Composition

Moore wrote music to Age 13 slowed down to half its original playback speed. This allowed him to write an album's worth of music around the twenty-five minute film and "made flow better". Moore primarily worked alone in his home studio, recording short song ideas. "I would place inside a theme in the film, just sort of audition things that might work, and something would click and I would develop the idea," Moore said. In contrast to Moore's original plan to record an "organic, and less digital" album, all of the sounds on Graveyard Mountain Home are digital.

Unlike in a traditional film soundtrack, Moore often wrote music "not necessarily to always match the images on the screen, but to sometimes play against it." Moore explained that a traditional soundtrack needs to convey the mood of the scene and advance the film's storyline, but that he did not have to do that with Graveyard Mountain Home "because the director's not around". "I thought, well what would it be like if I did a totally different kind of mood than this scene is trying to convey? When you put that music with that scene what happens there? Sometimes it's kind of interesting what happens," Moore explained.