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Sickening Silence: Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Chernobyl’ Soundscape Brings Radioactivity To Life
How do you transform something silent and invisible and yet inhumanely savage into sound? Composer and former Grapevine cover star Hildur Guðnadóttir was faced with this challenge when tasked with creating the soundtrack for HBO’s newest mini-series ‘Chernobyl.’ What she ended up…
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VIDEO: ‘Chernobyl’ Score Composer Used Only Sounds From An Actual Nuclear Plant
In a recent interview, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who composed the score for the HBO miniseries ‘Chernobyl’, revealed how the score came together. Namely: every sound in the score is recorded from sounds from inside a nuclear power plant. In the interview, conducted…
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Grapevine Playlist: Comfort Creature, TSS, Hildur, Máni Orrason, Matthildur & More
Like eight simultaneous lightning bolts striking your laptop out of thin air, there are the latest offerings to flash out of the smoky fumarole of the Icelandic music scene. Comfort Creature – Pyramid Room Exit Iceland-born, Australia-based Auður Zoëga—who lists her hometown…
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Alien Communication: From Hafnarfjörður To Hollywood, Hildur Guðnadóttir Hits The Big Time
Hildur Guðnadóttir’s beaming face emerges from the digital blur. She leans into the camera, her features springing into sharp resolution. Her long hair is tied up into a loose bun with several pixelated spikes, and her bright eyes glitter above a broad…
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The Trump Era Finds Its Poet: Sicario 2
If Denis Villeneuve‘s near-masterpiece Sicario went out of its way to be several shades of grey, then Stefano Sollima’s follow-up goes for none more black. And if the TV show 24 showed us the necessity of torturing suspects to avert terrorism during…
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The Unexpected Sound: Four Female Composers At Iceland Airwaves
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra played for the sixth time at Iceland Airwaves last night. All of the composers in the programme, and the conductor, were women. The guests were not the usual guests you’d expect to see at these kinds of concerts—two…
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Sound Fanatic: The Musical World of Hildur Guðnadóttir
To Hildur Guðnadóttir, film scores are more than background noise. The Berlin-based cellist and composer is set to score her highest-profile film to date, ‘Soldado’, the sequel to hit 2015 crime-thriller ‘Sicario’. Starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, the film premieres…