The magic behind ChristopherNolan’sThe Odyssey is thanks to 35 bronze gongs and ancient Greek instruments.
The film’s composer, LudwigGöransson, wanted the score to feel authentic to the time.
“It’s not like the orchestra existed back then,” he told Time Magazine. “It was a challenge and also an opening to try to make something unique.”
Göransson composed Nolan’s Tenet and Oppenheimer, making this their third time working together. The duo revealed the score for The Odyssey is unlike anything they have ever worked on.
In a YouTube video posted by Universal Pictures, Nolan explained his vision.
“We wanted the film to feel like a recognizable world to people, even though it was going to be ancient Greece,” the director said. “We don’t want it to look and feel like previous movies that take on this kind of classical world. What can we do that’s more timeless than that?”
Göransson gladly accepted the unique challenge. He deep-dived into research to learn more about instruments and music of the time.
The composer knew Nolan wanted to include the sound of the lyre and aulos. The lyre is a U-shaped instrument, comparable to a small harp. The aulos is a wind instrument that sounds a bit like an oboe or a bagpipe. Göransson called it “the most popular rockstar instrument for a thousand years.”
He also gathered 35 bronze gongs of different sizes and experimented with them using synths. Nolan wanted to use bronze because The Odyssey would have been during the Bronze Age.
Göransson tried other ways to achieve a percussion sound. He was “hitting walls, hitting railings, hitting any things you could find outside, like scrap metal or air conditioning units.”
The composer is excited for audiences to experience the score,
“The music is definitely a very, very unique world, and I hope people are able to be part of it and fully immerse themselves in this world.”
The Odyssey is now in theaters.
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