HBO’s harrowing miniseries Chernobyl just wrapped up its five-episode run on HBO this week, and adding to its palpable sense of dread is Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir‘s haunting, ambient score that has its own fascinating backstory. Her score was created from field recordings made inside the decommissioned Lithuanian power plant where the miniseries was filmed. “Right before they went there to shoot, I went there to record,” Guðnadóttir told Score: The Podcast. “I went there with my score producer, Chris Watson, who records all the David Attenborough films and episodes. So he’s a master field recording engineer. We went in [the nuclear plant] in full hazmat suits and everything. We went there to record the power plant, and we worked the score from those recordings. Every single sound in the score is made from those power plant recordings.” Specifically, the ambient sounds. “I didn’t really want to play it as such, but I wanted to go there and experience what it’s like to be in a power plant.”
That type compositional idea is really cool, but bragging about it comes off really Reddit.
Robert Cook
You fucking traitors. Enjoy being poorfags and clean the shit after me you scum
Colton Cox
Pretty much
Evan Hernandez
Every single fucking movie since the late 90s uses all manners of ambient sounds and SFX and samples in its soundtrack.
And the composer knows it's a very ordinary idea
and the guys who wrote this article and interviewed him know that it'd a very ordinary idea
and we know that it's a very ordinary idea.
This isn't 1879 anymore. Sampling is a thing. Noise music is a thing.
Jackson Wilson
Is this a reddit post?
Samuel Cook
>if you do something cool you should never tell anyone you did the cool thing so no one will never know about it and it was a waste of time doing something cool that only a handful of people will ever appreciate
Kevin Jones
Loved the dark ambient soundtrack. Loved the endless sense of dread in the atmosphere.
Cameron James
the score is pretty weak
It's average dark ambient, very unremarkable. Actually most dark ambient albums try to put more effort into the composition, to make some tracks stand out and be more memorable.
James Johnson
I'm absolutely convinced this show is being pushed on here by paid shills.
Alexander Torres
I thought it was pretty good and I listen to ambient. Lots of field recording. Reminds me of cities last broadcast
lmao I whipped this together in 30 minutes it's not hard to make spooky ambient, literally take a bunch of atonal sound clip, them down and add distortion+delay+reverb, then loop them randomly.
i noticed while watching that the fallout video games' soundtracks have similar WURAH WURAH noises for lack of a better term, which sorta sound like a muffled voice. so the fallout games have actual nuclear power plant ambience too?
Jason Scott
obviously not, there's actual drumming in Chu Ishikawa's music, I fucking wish I were as good as him.
