How Dan Romer’s “Station Eleven” multimodal soundtrack came back to inform itself on different levels – Sound and Screen

Creating music for HBO’s post-apocalyptic miniseries station eleven Composer Dan Romer offered a unique opportunity to create a soundtrack that will be presented at the beginning of the new episodes.

“It’s really funny [the project] It’s that the real points start learning from the songs as the show goes on, ”Romer explained at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event at UCLA’s Roy Hall.

“It shouldn’t go the other way: the songs don’t know the score, but the scores were the songs,” said Romer, whose music titles include sheet music. wild beasts of the south Y Luca YA Great Big World for Sean Mendes and the pop duo. So the game is a very fun palette. She said like this: “Oh, we have this melody that they sing. Put this melody on Shakespeare [play scenes] And let’s put Shakespeare’s melody on the scores. “

And he added: “There are many forms of music in the show. Here’s a real score, there are folk songs that have to be written by the symphony itself … and then there’s the music played for the orchestra in a play that plays Shakespeare. “Before filming, a lot of Shakespeare music was written and songs were written, so they could play it on the set and the song on the set.”

The composer said his rules included a score that would play “every instrument you carry” as well as the show’s traveling symphony when they travel to the Midwest after a deadly virus invades society. and he revealed it station eleven Executive producer Patrick Somerville, for whom Romer scored ManiacHe is a very hands-on creator, literally when it comes to music.

“It’s really a lot more back and forth,” Romer said. “I think we’re totally influenced by each other and all our ideas, and when I’m done writing something, it’s like I have to come and sit at my desk. We just have to sit down and watch the sessions and work together! ‘ It’s so much fun to be together. “

He added: “This is such an internal collaboration between me and Patrick and we spend a lot of time together, making music, crying and talking about the story. It was an incredible experience working with him.