Gravity (soundtrack)
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Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album of the 3D space drama film Gravity, written and conducted by the British film composer Steven Price.
Development
Composer Steven Price was originally called in to help out for a couple of weeks on the music design of Gravity. After having a creative discussion with director Alfonso Cuarón, Price began coming up with a template of sounds and noises that eventually led to him being hired as the film's composer.[1] As work began on the film's score, Cuarón and Price set ground rules for distancing the score from conventional Hollywood-style action scores such as omitting the use of percussion.[2] “Ordinarily in an action film you’re often competing with explosions and god knows what else, whereas with this [movie] music could do things a different way,” said Price. “With everything we did we would try and look beyond the normal way of doing things. [For] some of the action sequences where there are explosions, I knew that [...] those explosions had to be inherent.”[3]
The score was recorded in small groups or single instruments as opposed to a collective orchestra in order for each sound to be electronically processed and mixed individually to create a layered and surrounding effect.[4]
"We knew we needed to express silence. We didn't want the score to be descriptive, but psychological and emotional. We composed a score which is expressive of surroundings. Here the music is moving around you all the time."
—Cuarón, on the film's musical intent[5]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Steven Price
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Above Earth" | 1:50 |
| 2. | "Debris" | 4:24 |
| 3. | "The Void" | 6:15 |
| 4. | "Atlantis" | 3:43 |
| 5. | "Don't Let Go" | 11:11 |
| 6. | "Airlock" | 1:57 |
| 7. | "ISS" | 2:53 |
| 8. | "Fire" | 2:57 |
| 9. | "Parachute" | 7:40 |
| 10. | "In the Blind" | 3:07 |
| 11. | "Aurora Borealis" | 1:43 |
| 12. | "Aningaaq" | 5:08 |
| 13. | "Soyuz" | 1:43 |
| 14. | "Tiangong" | 6:28 |
| 15. | "Shenzou" | 6:11 |
| 16. | "Gravity" | 4:35 |
Personnel
Credits adopted from Allmusic:[6]
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References
- ^ Schweiger, Daniel (September 30, 2013). "Interview with Steven Price". Film Music Magazine. Global Media Online, Inc. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ Rosen, Christopher (October 4, 2013). "'Gravity' Composer Steven Price On The Film's Incredible Soundtrack". The Huffington Post. AOL. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ Watercutter, Angela (October 7, 2013). "The Sound of Silence: How Gravity Created a Terrifying Score for Outer Space". Wired. Condé Nast Publishing. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ Girkout, Alexa (October 3, 2013). "How Do You Score Outer Space? Silence and 'Overwhelming' Sound, Says 'Gravity' Composer". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ Singh, Suhani (October 3, 2013). "I didn't want Gravity to be a sci-fi or a fantasy film, says director Alfonso Cuaron". India Today. Living Media. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Gravity [Original Score] – Credits". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 7, 2013.