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Art of the Score

Episode 36: Interstellar

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Time dilation is a funny thing. For many, we understand there’s been a bit of a gap between episodes. For us, however, it’s been mere minutes since our last appearance – but thanks for sticking around nonetheless, as we’re finally back to discuss Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan, time, and Interstellar. Join us as we chat all things organs, pianos, space travel, and answer the question of whether Interstellar is Zimmer’s greatest score of all. Episode notes: 01:51 – Did you miss us? 09:02 - interstellar! 13:55 – Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan’s time together 15:35 – The piece of paper and early demos 24:31 – soft soft LOUD 27:07 – The discovery theme, and Interstellar’s organ 38:08 – Woodwinds of Change 39:40 – Chastain’s piano 41:25 – Countermelody of doom 45:22 – The hope theme, loops and DAWs 54:10 – Messages from home 59:48 – The tesseract acts 1:02:40 – Finding Anne Hathaway 1:06:48 – Gravity 1:13:35 – 2001: An Interstellar Odyssey 1:20:48 – The humanity theme 1:32:59 – The sound of silence 1:37:55 – Time 1:42:15 – Maths with Poggo 1:49:45 – Dr Mann kind? No, he’s quite mean 1:53:30 – Try spinning, that’s a good trick 1:59:25 – Nick’s favourite ka-cue 2:00:51 – V for Vinterstellar 2:03:26 – Final thoughts We love to hear from our listeners – get in touch via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and if you like The Art of the Score, please take a moment to subscribe, rate and comment.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello Andrew. Hi Andrew. I've waited years. How many years? By now it must be two years, one month and 25 days.

0:23.6

I thought I was prepared. I knew the theory we were just going to head to the planet for a quick break between episodes.

0:32.6

Well, your theory was wrong, Daniel. Remember the massive black hole out there

0:39.3

remember relativity

0:40.3

I've been here for over two years

0:44.3

two years

0:46.3

I thought you were never coming back

0:50.3

why didn't you sleep

0:52.3

I've had a couple of stretches back. Why didn't you sleep?

1:03.0

Look, I've had a couple of stretches. But guys, the emails, the emails they kept coming.

1:08.7

They said, when are you doing a new episode? When are you guys going to record again?

1:11.4

Yo, is this podcast done?

1:12.0

Hello?

1:13.3

Hello?

1:16.8

It was relentless.

1:21.9

Did you do anything useful with your time at least?

1:23.5

Useful?

1:25.1

Actually, I did, Daniel.

1:25.9

Thank you for asking.

1:27.5

I did heaps of useful things.

1:30.9

I spent most of my time looking into this cool composer called Hans Zimmer.

1:31.7

Have you ever heard of him?

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