Composer Atli Örvarsson Says He Used Musical Instruments That Represented Loneliness For ‘Silo’ Score – Sound & Screen TV
deadline.comComposer Atli Örvarsson wrote the music for Silo, the Apple TV+ series about a post-apocalyptic society living within a giant silo so old they don’t even know who built it.
For the tale, Örvasson said he thought of musical instruments that could represent loneliness. “I tried to imagine possibly living in these conditions,” Örvarsson said during a panel conversation at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television live-music event. “It must be incredibly lonely, incredibly isolating.
I go to more traditional solo instruments like piano and solo violin.” Örvarsson gave some of those traditional instruments a futuristic revamp.
For example, a magnetic resonator piano features in the score. Magnets give the piano strings more electronic sounds. In addition to loneliness, Örvarsson also thought about the technical logistics of the silo setting. “The first thing I started working on in the score was just kind of probing the tones,” Örvarsson said. “I imagined there has to be sort of a hum in the silo that’s running on a generator.” Örvarsson joked that growing up in Iceland was as isolating as living in the silo.
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