Film composers are always looking for novel ways to express ideas and convey character in music. Two of this year’s original-score nominees were especially innovative in finding musical solutions f…
had ever tackled . But he had a head start: he loved the Frank Herbert novel and had often imagined the sounds of the desert planet Arrakis.
He didn’t want a conventional orchestra, but he also didn’t think a purely electronic score would work either. So he experimented with vocal sounds: chants, whispers, screams made by singers in L.A., New York and Australia, all representing the Bene Gesserit, the mysterious sisterhood whose power rules the universe in Denis Villeneuve’s film.
“I worked quite hard at trying to, in an abstract way, give you a sense of the subtext, of the inner dialogue that the characters were having,” Zimmer says. And while he recorded instruments from electric cello to Armenian duduk, even Scottish bagpipes and newly invented musical noisemakers, he electronically manipulated them all for the final score.
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