00:00That's an amazing tuba.
00:04The first draft of the sound mix had these kind of sirens.
00:08When I heard them I thought, oh, it would be interesting to get the tubas and the trombones and the trumpets to all play these sirens.
00:15We started talking about our approach, how the music should sound.
00:21We wanted the performances to be live, like something was happening.
00:26The way that I work is to bring in extraordinary artists like John Tilbury on piano and create situations where they can be free.
00:3590% of the score was recorded on this.
00:39I bring this really small setup to different places.
00:43For a film about construction, I did a session on the prepared piano.
00:47The piano is made up of many hammers that hammer the strings.
00:51And if you interfere with the strings by putting screws and objects into the strings, you can get these strange percussive sounds.
01:00It just felt like that could be a good starting point for The Brutalist.
01:08Brady wanted to shoot certain scenes to music, the overture.
01:13So this scene where Adrian's character, Laszlo, is coming essentially from the Holocaust, from the camps, into America.
01:20It was being blasted out on the speakers.
01:25Adrian could move to the music.
01:34Also, there were a few scenes where we wanted live music on the set.
01:39So, for example, the jazz scene.
01:43I had a band come from Paris, Marseille and Berlin.
01:47Very specific, incredible players.
01:51It was beautiful because all the actors could move to the music and the cinematographer could dance to the music with the camera.
02:04There's a section of the film that takes place in Carrera in Italy where they extract marble.
02:09And we'd already talked about Evan Parker playing soprano saxophone.
02:14I ended up going to Carrera to record the reverb, like the echo of that valley.
02:25We recorded a gunshot.
02:27And then you can put it into a computer and basically it removes the gunshot.
02:31And then you replace the gunshot basically with the soprano saxophone.
02:38It's a time-based medium in the sense that the scenes are very precise, the length.
02:43That was challenging to sort of retain that live quality and then of course hit the beats of the edit.
02:50It's a good challenge though because when you get to the end of it, I think it creates something that feels alive.
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