Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer ('The Lion King'), has a new side gig: curating the sounds of otherwise virtually silent electric cars made by his hometown automaker, BMW
Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer ,
As part of that future, Zimmer will have an ongoing role creating audio for BMW electric vehicles, starting with a sound that signals the start and stop of the cars. It will be part of next year’s BMW electric fleet. He also kept thinking what the world sounded like before the internal-combustion engine took over seemingly everything, but especially our auditory landscape.
And so, no doubt, will be the case for audio in the near-perfect listening conditions possible in a well-made electric vehicle. Though Zimmer and Renzo Vitale, who heads BMW’s music project, were circumspect about what additional sound creation the composer might do in his ongoing role, Zimmer several times mentioned that he already had numerous ideas for more work.Photo by David Bloom
That audio was built around what’s known in music circles as a Shepard tone, an audio effect that enlists a chord of tones separated by an octave each that shift in pitch and volume, said Vitale. It was designed to provide something of the visceral auditory thrill that a sports car’s revving engine can deliver to enthusiast drivers.
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