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How the ’Andor’ Score Went for Maximum Strength While ‘The Studio’ Composer Acted Solo
How the ’Andor’ score went for maximum strength while ‘The Studio’ composer acted solo.
Those extremes are illustrated by two of this season’s most popular shows: the Apple TV+ satirical series “ The Studio,” whose innovative percussion score is the work of Antonio Sanchez; and the acclaimed Disney+ drama “ Andor,” which concludes the “Star Wars” origins-of-the-Rebellion saga with new music by Brandon Roberts. Sanchez’s one-man band is a fun element of the Hollywood showbiz sendup “The Studio.” He didn’t know showrunners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg prior to this, but it turned out they were using his all-drums score for the 2014 film “Birdman” as a temporary soundtrack for “The Studio” and liking what they were hearing. Yavin needed a theme that was “melodic and orchestral and grand,” while the wheat planet Mina-Rau demanded something “earthy and wholesome, Americana,” and Ghorman leaned more towards Viennese waltzes with Eastern European colors including cimbalom and hammer dulcimer.Roberts’ music for the complicated Cassian-Bix relationship was critical in later episodes, while the early jungle-moon sequences benefited from Roberts’ use of unusual percussion including angklungs, an Indonesian bamboo instrument once used in “Planet of the Apes.”
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