Music By [Additional] – Andrew Kawczynski, David Fleming*, Omer Benyamin, Steve Mazzaro, Steven Doar Zimmer and Villeneuve both "agreed that the music would need to have a spirituality to it...a sanctified quality...that would elevate the soul and have the effect that only sacred music can". [4] Zimmer approached the score's composition with a "fresh" perspective, "just from the book", having never seen the 1984 film adaptation by David Lynch. [5] He built around the concept of Dune being a different civilization, and spent "months and months creating new instruments" to accompany that feeling, "defining, creating, and seeking new sounds, pushing the envelope". The composer augmented human voices "to sound eerie and other-worldly" for the score, [10] and based it on mainly female voices due to the shared sentiment between himself and Villeneuve that the "power of the human voice" remains constant in any civilization, and that "the female characters in the film drive the story". [4] When not waist-deep in pop culture, she dabbles in photography, fiction writing, and practicing her non-existent lightsaber skills. Burlingame, Jon (June 23, 2020). "Hans Zimmer Talks 'Dune,' James Bond, 'The Lion King' and Scoring His Way Through the Pandemic". Variety. Archived from the original on June 24, 2020 . Retrieved September 18, 2021.

The two have spoken with fondness about working together on Blade Runner 2049. When it came time to approach Dune, Villeneuve’s intention from the beginning was to get Zimmer on board. The composer—who turned down scoring Tenet (2020) for the opportunity to work on this dream project—talked about their collaboration: Her work has also appeared in places like Certified Forgotten and Blossom Mag, as well as on podcasts like Casterly Talk, and her own show, Does It Get the Pass?, where she dissects the history and common tropes of the romantic comedy with her co-host and fellow writer, Rebecca Radillo. Composer Hans Zimmer on the musical worlds of Dune and No Time to Die". The Hindu. October 21, 2021. Lussier, Germain (August 12, 2021). "Dune's Making of Book Is So Massive, Hans Zimmer Wrote It a Score". io9. Archived from the original on August 12, 2021 . Retrieved September 18, 2021. During the IMAX exclusive event on July 21, we witnessed a candid conversation between director and composer. Besides their great respect for each other and mutual love of Dune, fascinating insights were shared about their approach to creating the music. The story of the movie takes place tens of thousands years into our future, across a sprawling galactic civilization. Why would there be the same orchestral sounds as today? To do justice to this extraordinary setting, Zimmer actually invented new instruments!a b Armstrong, Vanessa (September 18, 2021). "We Saw 35 Minutes of Dune Goodness in IMAX and It Looks Incredible". /Film. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021 . Retrieved October 3, 2021.

Hans Zimmer to score Denis Villeneuve's Dune". Consequence of Sound. March 18, 2019. Archived from the original on September 18, 2021 . Retrieved September 18, 2021. Copyist [Digital Instrument Preparation Assistant] – Alfredo Pasquel, Jacob Moreno, Jeremy Katz, Michael Gloria, Soya Soo Anderson, Kyle (July 23, 2021). "Listen To 'Paul's Dream' From Hans Zimmer's Dune Score". The Nerdist. Archived from the original on September 18, 2021 . Retrieved September 18, 2021. We agreed that the music would need to have a spirituality to it… a sanctified quality. Something that would elevate the soul and have the effect that only sacred music can. And I believe that is firmly present in Hans’ score. Hans spent months and months creating new instruments, defining, creating, and seeking new sounds, pushing the envelope. Denis Villeneuve

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