00:02I love writing film scores because everything I get to do is so different.
00:08The first conversation we had was Chris telling me that he wanted something completely unique
00:13for this film. No orchestra, no familiar sounds that you've heard before in a movie like this.
00:21We wanted the film to feel like a recognizable world to people,
00:25even though it was going to be ancient Greece.
00:28We don't want it to look and feel like previous movies that take on this kind of classical world.
00:34What can we do that's more timeless than that?
00:36I knew that in order to create this completely original world,
00:40I also had to get out of my comfort zone and find sounds that I haven't worked with before.
00:45Ludwig went very deep on researching the sort of instruments that they might have had at that time.
00:53Chris had mentioned early that he was interested in aulos. He was interested in lyre.
01:02The aulos is an ancient Greek instrument. It was the most popular rock star instrument for a thousand years.
01:11This is a replica of an aulos, the original dates from between the 6th century and the 5th century B
01:18.C.
01:19We don't have any surviving reads.
01:22So I worked with two other people and we spent a while trying to work out and figure out how
01:28this bit worked at the top.
01:30We had to read lots of ancient source material and try and work out how they did it.
01:39This is the reconstruction of an ancient Greek lyre.
01:43To be able to play it in a philological way, we have to do research between iconography, philological sources and
01:51the personal experience as a musician.
02:01Nice! Wow! You nailed it!
02:04Another thing that Chris mentioned too early on in our conversations was to use bronze.
02:08You know, this is the bronze age. So gongs, you know, for example, made of bronze.
02:12You know, you can make these instruments sound in a way that you never heard of them before.
02:17I started to experiment with a lot of other stuff, hitting walls, hitting railings, hitting, you know,
02:23any kind of things you could find outside, like scrap metal or air conditioning units.
02:32Using vocals kind of became how we could also like add on to some of the more emotional pacing of
02:40the score.
02:43There's real intimacy and humanity in the soundtrack, and I love that because it sort of subverts all your expectations.
02:57I think Chris has a way of pulling in when you're watching his films.
03:01The music is definitely a very, very unique world, and I hope people are able to be part of it
03:08and fully immerse themselves in this world.
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