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‘Shōgun’ Composers Spent More Than Two Years Composing Four Hours of Music
"Shogun" composers Atticus and Leopold Ross discuss the process behind writing over four hours of music for FX's limited series.
While utilizing authentic Japanese instruments, the music takes a very modern approach that applies today’s technology and advanced sonic manipulation in ways that were impossible four decades ago. The “Shōgun” score finds the Ross brothers and Chuba employing classic Japanese material in a modern way by processing the sounds and incorporating them into an overall, electronically created—using a mix of analog and digital devices—soundscape that fulfills the dramatic needs of the story. Original author James Clavell based Toranaga on the real-life shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries and who was responsible for reviving the Gagaku music traditions that largely disappeared during the civil wars that preceded his rise to power.
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