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The score for Chernobyl was created in a far from traditional way, with composer Hildur Guðnadóttir eschewing instrumentation and building her score from the sounds of a power plant
Hildur Guðnadóttir’s incredible score for Chernobyl was rightly lauded across the award ceremonies following its release. Along with the Televisual Bulldog Award for Best Music, it was honoured with the Bafta Craft, RTS Craft and Design and Primetime Emmy Score awards too.
But unlike any conventional score, composed with traditional instrumentation and recorded in a studio, Guðnadóttir took a completely different tack.
Before shooting had begun on the series, Guðnadóttir, along with her score producer Sam Slater and sound recordist and composer Chris Watson, headed out to the location that would be used for the Chernobyl Power Plant in the series, a Soviet-era plant that was in the
process of being decommissioned in Lithuania. The trio were then able to spend several hours at the plant itself, dressed in Hazmat suits, recording its noises and aura and experiencing what it felt like to be there while capturing the plant’s nuances in order to build a rounded picture of the character of place. But rather than ‘play’ the power plant by
THEY SIMPLY LISTENED, RECORDED AND ABSORBED WHAT WAS HAPPENING NATURALLY
making their own percussive noises, they simply listened, recorded and absorbed what was happening naturally with one major solo musician the enormous door to the pump room.
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televisual.com Special Supplement Spring 2021
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