If you watched Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in the cinema, one of the things that probably struck you was the quality of not only the sound design - always an important component of the director’s films - but also the soundtrack itself. That was the work of Ludwig Göransson, who’s been discussing his work on the movie - specifically, the origins of the breathtaking Can You Hear The Music? piece - with Variety.
This was Göransson’s second project with Nolan (he also provided the score for Tenet) and the Swede reveals that, in the early stages when all he had to work with was a script, he was given pretty free rein. Nolan’s one idea, though, was to use the violin to portray Oppenheimer.
