Michael Nyman - The Arrival (OST Gattaca) [1997]
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- "The Arrival"
Composed, Conducted, and Produced by Michael Nyman
"Twelve Fingered" Piano Solos by Ryan Dorin and Michael Lang
By contrast, the film's distinct color filters, accentuating the cold ambience of the future, is one of the movie's best attributes, and composer Michael Nyman's score matches this chilling effect with precision. Nyman's minimalistic classical style had hit Hollywood's mainstream with The Piano and, in so doing, he managed to beat the similarly-writing Philip Glass to the scene by a few years. Both Glass and Nyman would receive career boosts in 1997, with Gattaca enjoying a Golden Globe nomination and Glass' Kundun extending that success to an Oscar nomination. While there are indeed differences in the general style of the two composers, many traditional film music collectors may write them both off due to their tendency to avoid the usual techniques used by composers in Hollywood. Nyman's work for Gattaca is typically flowing and free-floating, failing to adhere to sharp synchronization points and instead allowing an overarching mood to be created by the soft textures of his writing.
The end result of the score in the film of Gattaca itself is yet another production element that seems to yearn for warmth but ultimately chills the atmosphere with even greater consistency. Thus, the score may be mundane, but it's effective. In its simplicity in construct and execution, it's an unremarkable score throughout, lacking in memorable thematic development and heavily depending on an unenthusiastic string section for its volume. Rather than attempting to address the environment of a science fiction thriller (though a few dissonant passages exist during suspense on screen, and are particularly compelling and gripping in the "Upstairs" scene and its cue), Nyman seemingly opted to focus on the film's examination of social mores. The music underscores the rigid, anticlimactic lifestyle of both society's genetic powers and the ominous workplace of Gattaca. Nyman conjures four themes for the film, each provided in succession in the first four tracks on the Gattaca album. The most distinctive of these is the opening theme for "The Morrow," which is reprised at the end of the album. Like all the themes, this idea builds slowly with string layers and barely-noticeable brass and woodwinds in a supporting, volume-producing role. Never do the themes match the emotional crescendo of the film's storyline; in fact most of the thematic performances end abruptly at the conclusion of each cue (a Glass technique in Kundun as well). This lack of maturation in the thematic development is particularly disappointing as Hawke's character reaches his ultimate goal and his rocket's departure to space coincides the ultimate moments of Law's crippled life. There is no musical victory here, not even in small doses, and this causes the film to downplay the achievements of the individual character and once again point its attention to the on-going problems of the futuristic society. Sometimes, the audience needs a cookie. The music for Gattaca doesn't give one.
The lack of pointed synchronization with the action on the screen does hinder the work significantly, especially on album. The thematic performances and meandering filler in between are hardly distinguishable due to a total lack of emphasis in any of the sections. The string players seem like they were dazed when recording this work, and given that their performances are at the heart of the score's personality, Gattaca on album could be an incredible bore for a listener not in tune with Nyman's chosen style. There was potential for a suspenseful climax during each pan upwards of the camera to catch a glimpse of another rocket, or perhaps a continuation of the flighty rhythm of "Becoming Jerome" (the highlight of the entire score) every time Hawke's inferior character made the transformation into Law's superior one, or perhaps an instrumental accent whenever Thurman's morbidly romantic glimpses flash momentarily across the screen. Instead, the score drones on from scene to scene, with little difference between shots of violence, sex, exuberance, or death. Aside from "Becoming Jerome," the album's highlight is ironically Ryan Dorin and Michael Lang's piano performance of "Impromptu in G Major, Op.90, No.3," by Franz Schubert, heard as source music in the track "Impromptu for 12 Fingers" (which is heard during a memorable scene in the film). Otherwise, the Gattaca score is dreary musical accompaniment for a dreary film. You can't really fault Nyman for tackling the film from the perspective of its role as a "social awareness documentary," but the concept is so interesting, creative, and applicable that you yearn for music that will reach out and challenge your beliefs in genetics while better accentuating the inherent suspense in the film's plot. Film score collectors purchasing this score without any context or knowledge of the film will be disappointed.
"You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back!""
One of the best line in the whole Cinema age.
this is what I remember most from this movie. Yet, he made it back with his brother in-tow.
This was such a W movie
One of the most beautiful melodies in the world at all.
I was in high school when I first heard this song and it has carried with me over the years, and (I'm sure) through the decades. It's a song of struggle beyond the barriers we see before us, persistence in the face of insuperable barriers, the diamond of a dream, a goal that lies within our hearts with an outlining of hope, hoping to achieve the seemingly impossible.
well said "there is no gene for the human spirit."
I had this song stuck in my head for days and couldn't figure out what it was from. Then just now I was like "GATTACA!" I feel so much better now.
it echoes the most important thing in all humans, the dream and the will to go there. When one has only one choice, win or die, will always beat the one who has other choices.
The swim was the most beautiful and yet simple expression of that form and more.
Beautiful and timeless music.
The heart over the body, mind over matter. The dream over reality.
The most underrated movie 🎬 off all time.
Best movie ever
I'm tear bending over here, I love this movie and the ST is superb!
So beautiful. Listening to this underneath the stars 🌌
Uma das trilhas sonoras mais belas que já ouvi. Choro sempre quando ouço.
Take me to a beautiful land full of promise and hope. This is what music does to you, it achieves absolutely wonderful thoughts that make you feel truly humble.
great movie, wonderful OST, Michael is genius...
Un film ou devrait je dire un chef-d'œuvre
This amazing soundtrack NEVER stopped running through my head ever since I first saw the movie four years ago...
Excelente película, me encanta esta película, me la he visto varías veces, hoy cumplo 20 veces que la veo. Me inspira a seguir mis sueños, sí él pudo, yo también podré.
Noar Hwt Aunque la peli no tiene casi nada que ver con eso xd
Como que no hermano? Te tocara verla mas de dos veces para que caigas en cuenta.. Saludos desde colombia!
Whoa I've never heard this altered version before. It's even more beautiful!!! 😢
It was the strangest thing...every now and again, for the last two years, I would hum this few bars of a song in my head...and for the life of me, I didn't know what it was. It felt so familiar, I knew I couldn't have made it up. It had to have come from somewhere.
I searched and searched, but I couldn't find it. How do you search a few chords runnings though your head?
It was from a movie. One that I had seen 10 years ago.
That I fell in love to.
And had forgotten.
....Sometimes Dreams are forgotten and lost to the past and sunken into obscurity until a single note or chord of remembrance is struck bringing back to our memory that beautiful,shimmering light which was cast into darkness for a moment in time only to be reborn and brought back from the dead of night....Some Dreams were never meant to die....Shalom.✌🙂
@@LionofLight777 Wow that was beautiful.
Same. Peace be with you. And may you always find the source of the song
@@LionofLight777 these words are like something said long ago...forgive my ignorance if that is the case. Thank you and Shalom, Peace be upon you and yours tonight.
@@kyleforan5758 ....No need for apologies my friend.,For there is no ignorance when one strives to remember a single chord or melody of LIGHT... For that is the very thing that revives Man's DREAMS and RESURRECTS His SOUL,causing Him to be brought back to LIFE & to LIVE again....And because you remembered,Now your SOUL will LIVE again....Thank you for your gracious and kind WORDS and I humbly pray that One day My WORDS will also bring You back to LIFE...And now...May Hashem cause You to be blessed and may He cause the branches 🌿 of your Tree to grow unto heaven like the✨Stars and like the Cedars of Lebanon....Shalom
i love Michael Nyman, his sensibility is unique, throughout his music i can feeling a thousand sensation and emotions very hard to explain with ordinary words, his musical composition is like touch the heaven, speciality for Gattaca our preferite movie on tap of world! thank you nyman for exist you
Sem palavras para dizer the best
I'm Simply In Love.........So, So, Very Beautiful!!!!
This is a truly gorgeous track...
Amazing movie amazing soundtrack.
Wow. The description gives an amazing amount of insight. Thank you for that!
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate that my description gave you a deep insight on Nyman's work on this score.
The top of Michael Nyman and great movie....... Beautiful !!! thanks for sharing
if you like this, also check out Ryuchi Sakamoto, start with "Forbidden Colours", especially the instrumental version of it from the OSt for "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence", found on his "1996" CD. Another artist is Sylvain Chauveau, start with "Within this Orderly Life".
great selections, others?
max richter "on the nature of daylight"
геніальна композиція!
A DREAM !!!
I want this song play at my burial.
Along with Vide Cor Muem my Favorites in Soundtrack music really gets your heart pumping
QUEL BEAU FILM!! JE NE COMPRENT PAS QU IL NAI PAS MARCHE....😎😇😇😇😇
this song is dope for my soul, i feel only freedom
I guess everyone watches this in biology... Anyway this was a great film with an amazing soundtrack
Mikey Wilson I watched it in Senior year sociology.
My english teacher in high school told my class to watch the movie because it was a beautifull movie (it was 5 years ago and i just watched the movie last month and daaaammm she was God dam right !!! )
I just watched it on my own, but I also pushed a teacher to show it in class ^^
I watched it in my biology class.
I would have loved to watch it in class, I love this film
This just broke my brain, omg....
Amazing!
i absolutely love this song! so beautiful!!! i feel like im in a dream when i hear this;D
I saw this movie in my biology class and when i heard this song i just had to look for it
MICHAEL NYMAN
My gosh!!! Thanks for this list! You made my day :P
in line with interstellar, minority report, movies that transcend your mind, heat, scarface, and collateral... all have that night time feel about them
Que coisa linda.
the best i heard projekerde
For Michael O'Malley"s brave struggle ,Gone home to God Miss you always Ma, David ,Sian (Barna) and your wife Ieva
Word.
Ryan Dorin, the creator of the Ratboy Genius composed some of this music? Wow.
" you're gonna be late for your flight Vincent"
Its about hope for the future
Our good friend amazon :)
It's on the Zune marketplace.
Senza Jude Law la presentazione di questo bellissimo brano musicale perde valore, mi dispiace.
MY'S MOTHER FUNERAL
HOPE
@estephano80 No one uses the old-fashioned way anymore...now, all we get are perfectly rendered digital masterpieces, superior in every way. There's no room for those invalid CDs anymore :(
Luca francica
Except that CDs have faaaar superior audio quality than mp3s. If you could buy lossless audio, now that would be different.
this isnt on itunes! how to i get it, legally!?!!
@mo11y113 How about the old-fashioned way... go to a record store and pick up the soundtrack on cd! :-P
Uma Truman looks more like Sylvia from The Truman Show
Heavy Rain, anyone?
Good game, but this predated it by well over a decade.
Fuck no
On Elon’s playlist.
this song is beautiful man shame on the left brain critics
@catrin2020 everyone does lol
@mo11y113
Amazon MP3
Wow. Just now reading the commentary above I find myself wondering, apart from- does this individual simply like to hear themselves talk, "Is this person a broken or 'imcomplete' person?" I mean, "are they [the commentator above] a 'two-dimensional' person and not a 'three-dimensional' person like most of us are?" What filters are in place, here. It's not a full deck. It's encumbered. Therefore... 'limited'(?) Maybe he should watch/listen to Hollywood in Vienna's effort. Maybe it would help. Maybe.
Very beautiful, original & so overlooked film with great acting & story.
Gattaca is one of the most underrated Sci-Fi films of the 90's ( next to Strange Days, Virtuosity, The Lawnmower Man, Mimic, RoboCop 2, The Time Shifters, Body Snatchers, Virus, Fortress, No Escape, Timecop, The Thirteenth Floor, Alien 3, Screamers, Judge Dredd, The Arrival, Space Truckers, Cube, The Relic, Dark City, Deep Rising, Sphere, Soldier, Futuresport, Alien Intruder, Barb Wire, Crossworlds and eXistenZ)