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Radioactive Music: The Eerie Agency of Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Music for the Television Series Chernobyl



Authors: Størvold Tore, Richardson John

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Publishing place: New York

Publication year: 2021

Journal: Music and the Moving Image

Journal acronym: MAMI

Volume: 14

Issue: 3

First page : 30

Last page: 45

eISSN: 1940-7610

Web address : https://muse.jhu.edu/article/837016

Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/68949233


Abstract

The acclaimed television miniseries Chernobyl (2019) features an eerie soundtrack that musicalizes the silence of radioactivity. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score is composed of field recordings from a nuclear power plant, treated and fitted together in ways that blur the lines between music and sound design. The immersive qualities of the soundtrack provide television audiences with new means of sensing the invisible ecological consequences of human activity. Størvold,


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