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264:, Price began coming up with a template of sounds and noises that eventually led to him being hired as the film's composer. As work began on the film's score, Cuarón and Price set ground rules for distancing the score from conventional Hollywood-style action scores such as omitting the use of percussion. "Ordinarily in an action film you're often competing with explosions and god knows what else, whereas with this music could do things a different way," said Price. "With everything we did we would try and look beyond the normal way of doing things. some of the action sequences where there are explosions, I knew that those explosions had to be inherent." 503: 359: 354: 323: 498: 493: 488: 483: 469: 464: 459: 454: 449: 435: 430: 425: 420: 415: 401: 396: 391: 386: 381: 349: 344: 339: 318: 313: 308: 303: 29: 515:'s score has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, in particular for its two final tracks, "Shenzou" and "Gravity". It was nominated for and won multiple awards in the Best Original Score category at several ceremonies: it received a nomination for 238:"We knew we needed to express silence. We didn't want the score to be descriptive, but psychological and emotional. We composed a score which is expressive of surroundings. Here the music is moving around you all the time." 267:
The score was recorded in small groups or single instruments as opposed to a collective orchestra in order for each sound to be electronically processed and mixed individually to create a layered and surrounding effect.
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Price's score was universally applauded by film critics and audiences alike, leading Price to win and receive nominations for several Best Original Score awards at ceremonies, including a
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was originally called in to help out for three weeks on the music design of
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Scores that won the Best Original Score Academy Award
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director Alfonso Cuarón, on the film's musical intent
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Soundtrack album
Steven Price
Abbey Road Studios
British Grove Studios
London
United Kingdom
Genre
Soundtrack
Label
WaterTower Music
Producer
Alfonso Cuarón
Steven Price
soundtrack album
3D
science fiction
thriller
Gravity
Steven Price
WaterTower Music
BAFTA Award
Satellite Award
Academy Award
Golden Globe Award
Steven Price
Alfonso Cuarón
Empire
Filmtracks
Steven Price

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