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




Størvold Tore, Richardson John

PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

New York

2021

Music and the Moving Image

MAMI

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

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/68949233



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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