Alex Garland, Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury (Contains Spoilers)
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
It's another very special Soundtracking this week as we take you to the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, where director Alex Garland and his composers Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury came together for a Q&A following an exclusive screening of Annihilation.
As you may know, the film hasn't had a cinematic release outside the US. You can, however, watch Annihilation on Netflix, and it's well worth your time if you haven't seen it already. Unusually for us, there a couple of spoilers in this episode too, which is all the more reason to check the movie out.
Before Alex joined everyone on stage, Edith caught up with Geoff and Ben in the bar to discuss their other work, specifically on Ex Machina and Ben Wheatley's Free Fire.
Their first score together was for Dredd. At least, it would have been had the studio not decided it wasn't suitable for the film. Thankfully, they shared their efforts anyway under the guise of Drokk. And it's with a spot of Drokk that we began - which basically means you're in for a real treat.
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| 0:00.0 | It's another very special soundtrack in this week as we take you to the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, |
| 0:05.5 | where director Alex Garland and his composers, Jeff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, |
| 0:10.1 | came together for a Q&A following our exclusive screening of Annihilation. |
| 0:14.8 | As you may know, the film hasn't had a cinematic release outside the US. |
| 0:19.5 | You can, however, watch Annihilation on Netflix and it is |
| 0:23.4 | well worth your time if you haven't seen it already. Now before the boss joined us on stage, |
| 0:28.2 | I caught up with Jeff and Ben in the bar to discuss their other work, specifically on Alex's |
| 0:33.5 | ex-Machina and Ben Wheatley's Freefire. Their first score together was for Dread. |
| 0:39.2 | At least it would have been, |
| 0:40.6 | had the studio not decided it wasn't suitable for the film. |
| 0:43.6 | Thankfully, they shared their efforts anyway |
| 0:46.2 | under the guise of Drook. |
| 0:48.0 | And it's with a spot of Drok that we begin |
| 0:50.1 | as we find out how they met. |
| 1:37.2 | Music as we find out how they met. The I'm going to set the scene first actually. |
| 1:41.6 | We've just introduced the film Annihilation at the Every Man here in Hampstead. |
| 1:45.6 | And Jeff Barrow and Ben Salisbury and I are just sitting in a little room chatting. |
| 1:49.6 | And I thought we'd chat about you guys and your work together and also individually as well before Mr Garland joins us later on for the actual Q&A. |
| 1:54.9 | I want to know how you two met for the first time first. |
| 1:57.3 | We play the worst possible competitive old man football. It's actually, we're in a league |
| 2:03.9 | and it's actually 20, it's the 28th tier of the English league. So there's 28 leagues beneath the sea. |
| 2:14.9 | It's basically terrible we played terrible football |
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