This week's Monday Jam isn't so much a jam as an existential dip into the terrifying vortex of your extraterrestrial imagination. Gravity is Alfonso Cuarón's new film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney that again treads that nightmare territory previously explored by films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mission to Mars, and Sunshine: getting chucked into space without a lifeline. With Gravity, though, we're getting an equally haunting score to go along with it, courtesy of composer Steven Price, which we're premiering today exclusively via an advance stream, a day ahead of its September 17 release.
"Alfonso was always very determined that the soundtrack be immersive," Price told WIRED. "As you sit in the theatre, the score literally moves around you and seeks to complement the weightless movement of the outer space visuals. We want you to feel within the experience. In order to achieve this, we recorded separately a wide range of elements, including glass harmonicas, voices, and string and brass sections of various sizes so as to allow a lot of freedom in both movement and also post-recording processing. Elements come and go, pulsate and transform, and follow the movements onscreen in a way that will hopefully add to the total cinematic experience of Gravity."
That sort of effusive comment can't help but sound a bit like hype, but it's an understatement to say that the Gravity score lives up to it. Seriously, take a listen: Within 30 seconds you'll feel yourself being sucked into space, even from 400 miles below. Let the terror consume you.
Gravity the movie is out October 4.
