Lachlan Anderson

Lachlan Anderson's spine-tingling score for David Farrier's 2023 documentary Mister Organ owed much to 'The Clamp', a homemade instrument built from typewriter parts and metal springs. When not inventing new sounds, Anderson often plays bass for Auckland punk band Die! Die! Die!. His screen CV also includes documentary Mothers of the Revolution, and a proudly out-there score for 2024 horror movie Grafted. His international TV credits include Billion Dollar Heist, Netflix series Tabula Rosa and The Dead Lands — which was nominated for both a Silver Scroll, and for Best Original Score at the 2020 NZ Television Awards. 

It's an acoustic box with a whole bunch of discarded mechanical machinery such as typewriter parts, cranks, springs, traps, objects that make a strange sound when bowed, plucked, tapped or scraped. Fittingly the final result looks like an antique cash register from hell . . . I'd describe The Clamp as a terrifying but beautiful music box imported directly from the world of a Hellraiser film. Lachlan Anderson on The Clamp, the custom-made instrument heard on the score for Mister Organ, in the film's press kit