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2013 soundtrack album by Steven Price
Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the
soundtrack album of the
3D
science fiction
thriller film
Gravity , written by British film composer
Steven Price . The album was released in 2013 via
WaterTower Music label.
Price's score was universally applauded by film critics and audiences alike, leading Price to win and receive nominations for several Best Original Score awards at ceremonies, including a
BAFTA Award , a
Satellite Award and an
Academy Award , as well as a
Golden Globe Award nomination.
"We knew we needed to express silence. We didn't want the score to be descriptive, but psychological and emotional. We composed a score which is expressive of surroundings. Here the music is moving around you all the time."
—Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón, on the film's musical intent
[1]
Composer
Steven Price was originally called in to help out for three weeks on the music design of Gravity .
[2] After having a creative discussion with director
Alfonso Cuarón , Price began coming up with a template of sounds and noises that eventually led to him being hired as the film's composer.
[3] As work began on the film's score, Cuarón and Price set ground rules for distancing the score from conventional Hollywood-style action scores such as omitting the use of percussion.
[4] "Ordinarily in an action film you're often competing with explosions and god knows what else, whereas with this [movie] music could do things a different way," said Price. "With everything we did we would try and look beyond the normal way of doing things. [For] some of the action sequences where there are explosions, I knew that [...] those explosions had to be inherent."
[5]
The score was recorded in small groups or single instruments as opposed to a collective orchestra in order for each sound to be electronically processed and mixed individually to create a layered and surrounding effect.
[6]
Steven Price 's score has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, in particular for its two final tracks, "Shenzou" and "Gravity". It was nominated for and won multiple awards in the Best Original Score category at several ceremonies: it received a nomination for
Best Original Score at the
71st Golden Globe Awards and won
Best Original Music at the
67th British Academy Film Awards and
Best Original Score at the
86th Academy Awards .
[14] James Southall of Movie Wave awarded the album five stars out of a possible five and said that "it feels like the most intelligent and most satisfying score for a science fiction movie since
Ennio Morricone 's stunning, dishearteningly lambasted
Mission to Mars ."
[10]
Award
Date
Category
Result
Academy Awards
March 2, 2014
Best Original Score
Won
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
December 19, 2013
Best Music or Score
Nominated
Awards Circuit Community Awards
February 28, 2014
Best Original Score
Won
British Academy Film Awards
February 16, 2014
Best Original Music
Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association
January 16, 2014
Best Score
Won
Central Ohio Film Critics Association
January 2, 2014
Best Score
Runner-up
Chicago Film Critics Association
December 13, 2013
Best Original Score
Nominated
Denver Film Critics Society
January 13, 2014
Best Original Score
Won
Golden Globe Awards
January 12, 2014
Best Original Score
Nominated
Grammy Awards
February 8, 2015
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society
December 15, 2013
Best Original Score
Won
San Diego Film Critics Society
December 11, 2013
Best Original Score
Nominated
Satellite Awards
February 23, 2014
Best Original Score
Won
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
December 16, 2013
Best Musical Score
Nominated
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
December 9, 2013
Best Score
Nominated
All tracks are written by
Steven Price
Title 1. "Above Earth" 1:50 2. "Debris" 4:24 3. "The Void" 6:15 4. "Atlantis" 3:43 5. "Don't Let Go" 11:11 6. "Airlock" 1:57 7. "ISS" 2:53 8. "Fire" 2:57 9. "Parachute" 7:40 10. "In the Blind" 3:07 11. "Aurora Borealis" 1:43 12. "Aningaaq" 5:08 13. "Soyuz" 1:43 14. "Tiangong" 6:28 15. "Shenzou" 6:11 16. "Gravity" 4:35 Total length: 71:44
Notes
"Airlock" is actually not played during the film. The beginning of "Aningaaq" is instead used in the scene it was intended for.
"Shenzou" includes a spelling mistake as the spacecraft is called
Shenzhou .
Credits adapted from
AllMusic and from the liner notes of Gravity: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack .
[15]
Performers and musicians
Philip Collin – organ
Katherine Ellis – vocals
Haley Glennie-Smith – vocals
Lisa Hannigan – vocals
Alasdair Malloy – glass harmonica
Metro Voices – choir
Will Schofield – cello soloist
Vicci Wardman – principal viola
Technical personnel
Geoff Alexander – conductor
Robin Baynton – assistant music editor
Christopher Benstead – music editor
Paul Broucek – executive in charge of music
David Butterworth – orchestration
Gareth Cousins – score mixer, recording engineer
Alfonso Cuarón – producer
George Drakoulias – music supervisor
Andrew Dudman – engineer
Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor
David Heyman – executive producer
Martin Hollis – assistant engineer
Toby Hulbert – assistant engineer
Lewis Jones – assistant engineer
Matt Jones – assistant engineer
Joe Kearns – assistant
Jason Linn – executive in charge of music
Lisa Margolis - music business affairs
Charlotte Matthews – orchestra contractor
Everton Nelson – orchestra leader
Jenny O'Grady – choir master
Sam Okell – engineer
Steven Price – composer, primary artist, producer
Nicki Sherrod – executive in charge of music
Sandeep Sriram – art direction
Jill Streater – music preparation
Christian Wright – mastering
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