Congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir, who not only won the Golden Globe for her score for 'Joker'. but also won a BAFTA on Sunday night.
Check out her music on Spotify or your preferred streaming service. She has a piece on my Iceland Travels Spotify playlist.
She lives in Berlin, and was interviewed by Iceland Review magazine. She produced the music for Chernobyl.
The Chernobyl series was possibly the best thing I have ever seen on TV...
Here's one particularly affecting piece.
Here's some detail from the filming of Chernobyl and the link between the place and her music.
To write the score for Chernobyl, Hildur visited the shooting location – a nuclear power plant in Lithuania – and put her ears to work. “I wanted to explore what a nuclear disaster sounds like – to go into the plant, put on the gear, walk through the huge spaces, smell how it smells.” Alongside sound engineer Chris Watson and score producer Sam Slater, Hildur observed and recorded the plant’s hums, echoes, and thuds, produced by everything from dosimeters to doors.
It’s these recordings that were moulded into the score for Chernobyl in the place of traditional instruments. The result is a soundscape woven into the action, rather than one that artificially inflates the drama of the story. “Often film music is boosting the emotion on the screen, and of course music is very good at this,” Hildur explains. “But because the events at Chernobyl were so devastating in themselves, the plot had to have its own space. I found it was really important that I wasn’t exaggerating anything with thriller music or dramatic strings, I wanted to approach the music very honestly.”
Update - Feb 10th
Hildur also won an Oscar for her Joker score, where her cello came to represent the character played by Joaquin Phoenix, who also won an Oscar for his performance.
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