Hiroshima

Score notes:

This was a mix of a big orchestral score - 70 piece - coupled with a lot of electronic sound design, multilayered ebowed guitars and duduks and also my watering can which I managed to completely bugger in the process by hitting it too hard with a big iron rod I nicked out of a skip. It was a massive massive project and yet again ruined my social life for about six months.

The sequence above is one of the most pivotal in the film - the actual dropping of the bomb. Up to this point the score was almost a relentless march onwards - someone mentioned that once the idea of the bomb had come about there was no doubt it would ever get made. So the first half of this film, from a musical point of view, was about building continuously to this one sequence, the inevibility of the bomb. Almost a machine that can't be stopped. However once it had been detonated the score dramatically changes, moving much more into the realms of atonal sound design and more humane string work. I think this, despite the fact they buggered up the mix in one sequence in my view, is probably one of the best scores I've done and a great film as well. Hey go and buy it now!