Christopher Nolan
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155 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Christopher Nolan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We shouldn't embrace the 19th century romantic tradition in music that really is the foundation of modern film schools, even.
You know, this sort of Rachmaninoff meets Wagner kind of thing that drives most of our films.
And Ludwig loved that.
He's like, yeah, let's take the orchestra off the table and then look for different approaches.
And what he started doing was saying, OK, it's the Bronze Age.
Let's look at instruments made of bronze.
Is there somebody who can play the aulos, this twin flute instrument, or the lyre, this stringed instrument that we see illustrated on pottery that was in existence thousands of years ago?
And he started to put together this incredible soundscape and this incredible way of approaching a score that did not come from this sort of 19th century tradition.
Yeah, definitely.
And thank you for noticing that phrase.
I was pleased with it at the time.
Yeah, definitely.
He's taking the most ancient instrument, the aulos, and he's having a player express the emotions of the character with it.
And then he's underpinning it with the 808 drum machine from the 1980s.
And then he's sampling all kinds of sound effects with the synthesizer and making these extraordinary soundscapes from it, not unlike some of what Vangelis was doing back then.
And I think what Ludwig embraces in that is this idea of timelessness.
And the thing about
something being timeless.
The thing about synthesized scores is they can create voices you've never heard before.
And what Ludwig has in here, he has ancient voices you've never heard before, and then he has absolutely modern voices you've never heard before.
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