Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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To celebrate Oscar Sunday, we're returning to our talk with Oppenheimer composer Ludwig Göransson!

To begin, Göransson describes the collaborative process with director Christopher Nolan (6:48), the instrument at the heart of the film (9:30) and its hauntingly beautiful theme (11:06). Then, we walk through Ludwig’s instinctive approach to making music (13:07), his coming of age in Sweden (15:20), and the influence of Metallica and Danny Elfman (18:51).

On the back-half, Ludwig reflects on his early years in Los Angeles (24:56), finding kinship with director Ryan Coogler (27:55) and polymath Donald Glover (34:53), and how he slowly began to understand his voice (38:21). To close, he shares how his process has evolved from Black Panther to Oppenheimer (42:30), the potential impact of AI on the music industry (44:58), and what he hopes for in the years ahead (49:15).

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0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast. Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. Today in honor of Oscar Sunday, my conversation with music producer and composer Ludwig Goronson.
1:19.5	We sat back in early August of last year upon the release of Oppenheimer.
1:24.0	Since then, the film has made over a billion dollars around the world, been nominated for 13 Academy
1:30.0	awards, and is poised to become one of the biggest winners in the history of the Oscars later today.
1:36.0	That includes Goranson, by the way, who was nominated for Best Original Score,
1:40.8	his third nomination in the category, which he first won in 2019 for Ryan
1:46.3	Cougler's Black Panther. By now I have to imagine if you're listening to this
1:50.4	you've seen the film Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan either
1:55.8	in theaters or at home or on your iPhone or on an airplane and regardless of
2:01.1	your feelings about the film, I personally love it,
2:04.0	Ludvig's composition is pretty remarkable.
2:08.0	It manages to both push the film forward while somehow holding it all together. It's powerful but not
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