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The Brutalist Original Score by Daniel Blumberg

From director Brady Corbet, written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, and starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, with Isaach De Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola.

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RELEASE DATE: Now Playing
DIRECTOR: Brady Corbet
CAST: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, with Isaach De Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola
Transcript
00:00That's an amazing tuba.
00:04The first draft of the sound mix had these kind of sirens.
00:08When I heard them I thought, oh, it would be interesting to get the tubas and the trombones and the trumpets to all play these sirens.
00:15We started talking about our approach, how the music should sound.
00:21We wanted the performances to be live, like something was happening.
00:26The way that I work is to bring in extraordinary artists like John Tilbury on piano and create situations where they can be free.
00:3590% of the score was recorded on this.
00:39I bring this really small setup to different places.
00:43For a film about construction, I did a session on the prepared piano.
00:47The piano is made up of many hammers that hammer the strings.
00:51And if you interfere with the strings by putting screws and objects into the strings, you can get these strange percussive sounds.
01:00It just felt like that could be a good starting point for The Brutalist.
01:08Brady wanted to shoot certain scenes to music, the overture.
01:13So this scene where Adrian's character, Laszlo, is coming essentially from the Holocaust, from the camps, into America.
01:20It was being blasted out on the speakers.
01:25Adrian could move to the music.
01:34Also, there were a few scenes where we wanted live music on the set.
01:39So, for example, the jazz scene.
01:43I had a band come from Paris, Marseille and Berlin.
01:47Very specific, incredible players.
01:51It was beautiful because all the actors could move to the music and the cinematographer could dance to the music with the camera.
02:04There's a section of the film that takes place in Carrera in Italy where they extract marble.
02:09And we'd already talked about Evan Parker playing soprano saxophone.
02:14I ended up going to Carrera to record the reverb, like the echo of that valley.
02:25We recorded a gunshot.
02:27And then you can put it into a computer and basically it removes the gunshot.
02:31And then you replace the gunshot basically with the soprano saxophone.
02:38It's a time-based medium in the sense that the scenes are very precise, the length.
02:43That was challenging to sort of retain that live quality and then of course hit the beats of the edit.
02:50It's a good challenge though because when you get to the end of it, I think it creates something that feels alive.
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