Round 6: Tossup 12

A film composer from this country used the term “Jimi Hendrix cello” to refer to an instrument from this country which uses its own audio to create a positive feedback loop. That composer from this country used the phrase “creeping death” to describe a score they created using sounds that she and her producer had recorded inside a Lithuanian power plant. A composer from this country created a multimedia work that later became his only directorial credit when a film version was released two years after his death in Berlin, entitled Last and First Men. (15[1])The composers of the scores for the works (*) Mandy and Chernobyl are both from this country. A composer from this country used tape loops in a score for a film that also makes use of Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight”; that film, an adaptation of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life,” is Arrival. For 10 points, name this country, the birthplace of Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson. ■END■

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