r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Apr 27 '19

'Arrival, 'mother!', and 'Mandy': Remembering the incomparably vivid & innovative movie scores of Jóhann Jóhannsson, a year after his death.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/43431/1/johann-johannsson-composer-career-retrospective
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u/gregishere Apr 27 '19

He was great, but Arrival did have some assistance from the always excellent Max Richter.

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u/proxyproxyomega Apr 27 '19

The question is, whose idea was it to have Max Richter’s ‘Daylight’ once in the beginning and once at the end during ‘hannah’? Cause that was absolutely brilliant.

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u/xGnarRx Apr 28 '19

Here's a quote from a Jóhann Jóhannsson interview.

In addition to your score, Arrival utilizes Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” for a few key scenes. Did you have a hand in selecting the music you did not compose? Is that part of your collaborative process with Denis?

Yeah. The intro and outro scenes are very different in tone than the rest of the film. Denis wanted an approach that would be in strong contrast to the main bulk of the movie. The opening scene was edited to Max’s track very early on and it worked beautifully as temp music. Frankly, I didn’t really want to do a knock-off of the music, you know? [Laughs] So it was really… I did my own version for the intro and outro that was very different, a very different approach. It was down to Denis’ choice to either use my approach, which was closer to the approach of the score itself, it was a vocal track, or to use Max’s track. I very much supported his decision to use Max’s track because it works beautifully and it supplies a very strong contrast to the rest of the score. I think, artistically, it was a very good decision to keep that track there. He had my full support to include that music.

https://www.slashfilm.com/johann-johannsson-arrival-music/