There is a sound that SciFi film scores have.
I’m listening to Max Richter’s score for Ad Astra right now. The track is “Journey Sequence” and it has woodwinds, I think, playing this twinkling melody with some strings underneath for droning support…and it sounds like so many science fiction fillms.
This isn’t a bad thing. It sounds like space.
It sounds vast, and cold, and a little bit lonely, and a lot of filled with awe and wonder. Which is what I imagine space to be like.
So, you know, it’s accurate, that sound. I’d just never really clocked it before. That sound hasn’t really changed in 60 years. Even composers like Max Richter are reproducing it. It’s comfortable. Evocative. Specific.
Work was busy today. Writing was hard, kinda, but I did it. I was tired when I got home, but I perked up enough after eating to sit down and import the rest of my old CD collection. Holy bejesus are there some questionable purchases in there. CDs I bought because I liked one song on the radio…but the album (and that song) are crap with the benefit of time and more experience.
I was 14 when I started buying these things. Gotta cut myself sooooome slack.
And there it goes. Ding. The last CD. I’m finally getting rid of them. I honestly don’t know why, now that I’m here, that I didn’t do this years ago and get rid of them back when CDs were actually phasing out. Like…CDs have been out of the game for a good ten years now. Yet, here I am.
I’m glad to be getting rid of them, which I wasn’t expecting. I feel like I can shed the weight of them, the space they take up, but I’m still able to hold onto their music. I still have the music. All of it. And much more accessible than it’s been to me for literally 20 years.
This is good.
Okay…time for some sleep. Night!