James Newton Howard on composing the score and weaving sounds into music, in collaboration with Mr. Malick:
The film’s composer James Newton Howard says scoring the film was a highly collaborative process.
“One of the early ideas Terry brought to me, was to incorporate sounds he had captured during production such as church bells from the villages, cow and sheep bells, the saw mill, sounds from the prison, and scythes in the fields,” says Howard. ”I took many of those sounds and processed them into musical elements that are woven throughout the score.”
Howard began his process after Malick sent him a series of short clips from the film without any sound or music.“I wrote very loosely to picture, but we were able to establish the key thematic material and sonic identity of the score. As we moved forward, we chose to work mostly scene by scene where I would write something that he would react to, and then he would often mould the edit to what I had done,” Howard explains.
Though the film takes place up against such an important historical backdrop, the film at its core is a human story. “I chose to focus on the emotional journeys and crises of conscience of the characters—writing music to reflect their story.”
Howard began while Terry was already editing the film. “After meeting with Terry at my studio in Los Angeles, I flew to Austin and met with his team to watch a cut of the film,” he says. “We worked primarily between March and May of 2018 and recorded everything in early June at Abbey Road Studios in London. “I felt the orchestra was best to reflect the vistas of St. Radegund. The solo violin throughout the film embodies the connection between our two main characters—performed by the violinist James Ehnes.”
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Re: A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019)
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Al margen de eso, este señor ha conseguido que TODOS sus compositores hasta la fecha paran obras maestras. Solo por eso, merece la pena. A malas, nos queda un CD cojonudo.
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