‘Welcome To Earth’ Used sounds Composer Daniel Pemberton never used before – Sound and screen

Superstar Will Smith was visiting far corners of the planet for a series of National Geographic documentaries. welcome to earth. Daniel Pemberton’s job was to provide the soundtrack for Smith’s journey and, during a series of panel discussions at Deadline’s Sound & Screen concert event, he said he used bands he had never played before.

“It was great for me to try not to sound like what you’ve heard before,” Pemberton said on stage during a televised music event at UCLA’s Roy Hall. “The idea of ​​the show is to see the world in a way you’ve never seen before. I’ve always wanted music that didn’t hear what I expected and used sounds I didn’t expect.”

Pemberton said that in his musical career he has often experimented with sounds that have never entered traditional sheet music. welcome to earthRunning on Disney +, it gave him the opportunity to hire them.

“A lot of them have a lot of weird sounds,” he said. “I have spent most of my life posting and recording strange sounds. It’s like I’ll never use it. “In this program I did.”

Some examples include Pemberton’s electronic scores when Smith visits an active volcano.

“It looked like lava and it looked like an unstable force,” Pemberton said. “You’re doing something more abstract, so as a viewer you think about it more because it’s more unusual.”

Pemberton said visual welcome to earth He gave him a license to run the experiment. Nat Geo took such exotic photos that he said he knew he couldn’t screw it up.

“You can’t help but be incredibly inspired by the incredible photography and research they’ve done on this series to find something you’ve never seen on this planet before,” said Pemberton. “It’s a very good image. I can write everything and it will be fine ”.

Watch the panel video on Monday.