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.
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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.