Ludwig Göransson

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ludwig Göransson is one of the most accomplished and distinctive film composers of the 21st century. In 2020, after working on the movie Tenet together, acclaimed director Christopher Nolan hired Göransson to score what has become one of the biggest movies of 2023: Oppenheimer.

Ludwig, who emigrated to Los Angeles from his native Sweden in 2007, has racked up dozens of writing, producing and scoring credits. He started out working in TV and he eventually started scoring films with his old college friend Ryan Coogler. Ludwig composed music for all of Coogler's hit movies including Fruitvale Station, the Creed series, and both Black Panther films—the first of which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2019.

On today’s episode Justin Richmond talks to Ludwig Göransson about his incredible body of work as a composer and producer. He explains how his rigorous musical training in Sweden prepared him to write the complex sections of the Oppenheimer score. Ludwig also plays some of the more moving sections of the score for us in effort to show us how he came up with one of the best soundtracks of the year.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	Ludwig Gorinson is without a doubt one of the most accomplished and distinctive film composers of the 21st century.
0:19.0	In 2020, after having worked on Tenet together, acclaimed director, Christopher Nolan, hired
0:23.9	Goranson again to score what has become one of the biggest movies of 2023,
0:29.3	Oppenheimer.
0:30.9	Ludwig, who emigrated to Los Angeles from his native Sweden in 2007, has racked up dozens
0:36.2	of writing, producing, and scoring credits.
0:39.5	He started out working in TV and oversaw music on hit shows like Community New Girl and The Mandalorian.
0:46.1	He eventually started scoring films with his old college friend Ryan Cougler.
0:50.3	Ludwig composed music for all of Ryan's hit movies including Fruitville Station, The Creed
0:55.3	series, and both Black Panther films, the first of which won him the Academy Award for Best
1:00.4	Original Score in 2019.
1:03.3	On today's episode, I talked to Ludwig Goranson about his incredible body of work as a composer
1:08.2	and producer.
1:09.2	He explains how his rigorous musical training in Sweden prepared him to write the complex sections of
1:14.3	Oppenheimer's score. Ludwig also plays some of the more moving sections of the score for us
1:19.6	in an effort to show us how he came up with one of the best soundtracks of the year.
1:26.8	This is Broken Record. Liner notes for the digital age.
1:30.3	I'm Justin Richmond. Here's my conversation with Ludwig Goranson.
1:36.0	Congratulations, I should say on the success of Oppenheimer and also like to just the
1:42.2	reception to the music has been it's been incredible I'll say I
1:47.5	always go into movies trying to know nothing so if I hear you know Christopher Nolan's been on a move about Robert Oppenheimer and Robert
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