Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to score upcoming Stephen Hawking biopic

Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to score upcoming Stephen Hawking biopic

Of all the amazing twists and turns in the narrative of popular music I never would have guessed that astrophysicist and archetypical geek/genius Steven Hawking would be trending so heavily in music news, well, ever. Lo and behold, this week alone we’ve been hit with the news that Hawking has a vocal performance in Pink Floyd’s long awaited next and possibly final album and now Icelandic experimental composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has drawn himself into the vortex of the Stephen Hawking hype machine.

The early warning signs are clear in retrospect, with Hawking’s previous collaboration with Orbital and Jóhannsson’s passion for the hardcore geek stuff like his 2006 album/ode to the IBM 1401. Now Jóhannsson is applying his considerable, minimalist skills to soundtrack the forthcoming biopic on Stephen Hawking called The Theory of Everything.

The soundtrack is described as being “derived from very simple elements that are announced in the first frames of the film - a four-note piano ostinato which then slowly expands into more complex forms and appears and re-appears evolved, deconstructed and re-assembled in various
renderings throughout the film,” and any auteurs of Jóhannsson’s work will know that all this points to being pretty far-out yet awesome.

The soundtrack will be released on November 4 via Back Lot Music and the film will be hitting screens around the same time. Get pumped by boning up on all the other pop-cultural moments in the sun that Hawking has enjoyed here, and watching the trailer below:

The Theory of Everything: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack tracklist:

01. Cambridge, 1963
02. Rowing
03. Domestic Pressures
04. Chalkboard
05. Cavendish Lab
06. Collapsing Inwards
07. A Game of Croquet
08. The Origins of Time
09. Viva Voce
10. The Wedding
11. The Dreams that Stuff Is Made Of
12. A Spacetime Singularity
13. The Stairs
14. A Normal Family
15. Forces of Attraction
16. Rowing - Alternative Version
17. Camping
18. Coma
19. The Spelling Board
20. The Voice Box
21. A Brief History of Time
22. Daisy, Daisy
23. A Model of the Universe
24. The Theory of Everything
25. London, 1988
26. Epilogue
27. The Whirling Ways of Stars That Pass

• Jóhann Jóhannsson: http://johannjohannsson.com
• Back Lot Music: https://www.facebook.com/BackLotMusic

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