The Soundtrack of Boombox (The God of The Dance) colors the moods of protagonist Pepi and those around her.

The opening country-style song "You'll Come Too" by Barefoot McCoy catapults us from the city exteriors to the place where Pepi works (the Panta Rei Bistrot in Turin) in an indoor-outdoor visual game that connotes camera movements, shots, and atmosphere. It almost feels like entering a saloon in an American Western, but more colorful and almost Central European. Photos of the singers hanging on the walls of the venue play a role of sense superimposed on the staging and foreshadow that we will see a short film where music will be a real leitmotif.

Mario Ordine's careful and expressive sound design first describes Pepi's haste and nervousness, then the ambient sounds and hiatuses of Pepi and Stella's house, effective backgrounds to the estranging dialogues between the two and Boom's "phono-phonetic" jokes.

The accelerated iterative sequence describing Pepi in the middle of the city (almost as if she herself were part of the confusion and traffic) has the indie pop rhythm of "To The Roofs" by the Colaars, whose lyrics fit well with the dystopian atmosphere of the sequence.

But it is with the entrance to the dance school (the glamorous Carma Academy in Turin) that the tones and frequencies drop, veering along with the colors of the shots, toward warmth. This time the background to the surreal dialogues between Felix, Alex and Pepi's "Es por Ti" by Raza Latina literally merges with red, orange and sepia tones accentuating a depth of field that so dear would be to a classic and at once postmodern Almodovar.

The physical (and mental) accident unleashed by Pepi with the launching of Boom also touches on the theme of the girl's desperate yet neurotic rebellion against technology.

The delicate and reflective opening of "Boom & Pepi's Theme", composed and arranged especially for the short film by the Bakers, masterfully welds this rift through the melancholy of the memory that obsessively "rumbles" in Pepi's head, knocking her out, more annoying than Boom's innocent sonic spite.

It is here that on the level of sound design the circle comes full circle....

The annoyance felt by Pepi before meeting Boom comes back to haunt her as the quietest rumble of memory.

It will, of course, be up to a DJ, singer and dance teacher like Alex and a joyful and vital dancer like Felix to rebalance the wounds in Pepi and Boom's relationship and bring a smile back to our protagonist's face.