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Soundtracks of movies become soundtracks of our culture.

Movies for some of us are a form of modern church.

So though you may not immediately recognize the name,

Gustavo Santa Olaya, you've probably heard the cinematic landscapes

he's created for films like Babel and Brokeback Mountain,

for which he's won Academy Awards.

This is the opening track from the film, The Motorcycle Diaries.

We experience Gustavo Santa Olaya's human and creative philosophy

behind a kind of music that moves us like no other.

I generally like not to have too much music in the movies.

I like the music to become relevant at certain points.

When you have a really dramatic scene

or something is really happening on the screen,

why would you put some music to it?

You can turn something dramatic into something melodramatic very easily.

I'm Krista Tippett and this is on Being.

Gustavo Santa Olaya grew up in Argentina in the time of the military junta

and the trauma that became known as the Dirty War.

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