HANS ZIMMER

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INTERSTELLAR SOUNDTRACK WITH MUSIC BY HANS ZIMMER OUT NOV 18

THREE VERSIONS TO BE MADE AVAILABLE INCLUDING A
STAR WHEEL CONSTELLATION CHART DIGIPAK AND
AN ILLUMINATED STAR PROJECTION EDITION WITH BONUS DISC

(October 28, 2014 – Los Angeles, CA) WaterTower Music today proudly announces the November 18 release of Interstellar: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, with music by renowned composer Hans Zimmer, whose career has earned him Grammy, Golden Globe, Classical Brit, Academy, Tony, and American Music Awards. The soundtrack will be available in three configurations: a Star Wheel Constellation Chart Digipak, a deluxe digital-only version, and an Illuminated Star Projection Edition with bonus content (coming later this year).

Interstellar, from Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, pairs the creative forces of Hans Zimmer and esteemed director Christopher Nolan, who collaborated previously on The Dark Knight film trilogy and Inception. “Chris wanted us to push the limits,” offers Zimmer. “Every conversation was about pushing boundaries and exploring new territories. This movie virtually dictates that you put everything on the line and keep the laboratory doors wide open and experiment to the very end. It tested our limits: the limits of what musicians are capable of, the limits of what could be recorded, the limits of everyone's stamina, commitment and invention, and I think we got it.”

"I believe that Hans’ score for Interstellar has the tightest bond between music and image that we’ve yet achieved,” Nolan reflected. “And we’re excited for people to be able to revisit the soundtrack once they’ve had the chance to experience the music in the film itself."

Each release is now available for pre-order. The Star Wheel Constellation Digipak and the Digital Deluxe Album will be available November 18, and the Illuminated Star Projection Edition is scheduled to ship later this year.

• Star Wheel Constellation Chart Digipak (Pre-Order): contains 16 tracks from the film
• Digital Deluxe Album (Pre-Order) includes 22 songs from the film
• The Illuminated Star Projection Edition (Pre-Order) features special illuminated star projection packaging, 2 CDs featuring 28 tracks, including 30 minutes of music unavailable anywhere else, and more.

“INTERSTELLAR” opens with advance screenings in IMAX® 70mm film, 70mm film and 35mm film formats on Wednesday, November 5th, two days ahead of its nationwide release on November 7th. The advance showings will play in select theaters in more than 240 locations across the U.S. and Canada.

“INTERSTELLAR” stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow and Michael Caine. With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. Directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, and produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Lynda Obst

I'm sure there will be those who disdain such marketing ploys as this, but given that it's got a distinct astronomical spin on it, I'll be very tempted to actually buy a physical CD for the first time in years. (Tl;dr version: looks cool, want.)

I think I'll wait for the extended quantum disc set packed into dark matter with space folding capacities.

Having ordered the sling-shot edition I've been listening to it since 1986

The Lion King?

What's happening about any comments regarding INTERSTELLER?

E on purpose Martijn

Pretty sure it's beyond complete, featuring the entire original score as well as alternate and original album takes. Having listened to every conceivable iteration of the "complete" promo scores, I feel confident saying it is not missing any music whatsoever.

That important eh?

I really like what I've heard so far. I'll likely see the film but I'd like to hear the score separated from the film, preferably now rather than later. Sounds like Hans ego is getting the better of him, even as a film score fan I'd want to see this film regardless of whether his name was attached.

I'm fairly confident you will like this, Timmer. Inspirations include Philipp Glass' KOYANISQUATSI and Morricone's MISSION TO MARS -- at least that's how I perceive it.

There is one particular moment in the film -- just as McConnaughey is leaving the farm and getting ready to take off that the religious, repeating organ theme rises in intensity that just got to me. I didn't cry, but I swelled up and actually closed my eyes. By far the most powerful moment in the film for me (in terms of film music), but there are plenty others.

Can't wait to hear the album and how it holds up. I'm dreading that it will be too repetitative, but I hope he has suitified it enough to sustain interest.

Yeah, I know. It will be far too long. But I've also heard that the second disc(?) contains suites of the material. That's the one I'm after.

I loved INTERSTELLAR - the film. A few silly things aside (e.g. the ghost), I thought it was a great film, well made. Very emotional and intimate despite it's huge intergalactic setting. I think it plays to a fundamental question we (mankind) have, and that is: what will happen next? Especially, what will happen after we're gone?

The music, I think, is the film's weakest point. For me, it was too loud, too oppressing, too bassy, devoid of genuine subtlety (well, nearly anyway) - which is quite often my reaction to Zimmer's music. My eardrums were vibrating from the bassy tones, even when there was no need for such oppressing sound (we're just getting introduced to the characters and the dust). Plenty of scenes didn't really require music, afaic, yet there it was... And I have missed quite a bit of dialogue because the music was simply too loud in the mix. And also, whilst the organ is a great sound and it really suited this film... by nature it's a sound that resonates and reverberates very strongly; meaning that you end up with a big blur of noise, with no distinctive notes or chords. It proposed some nice musical ideas, but the execution was flawed.

Fantastic films, in spite of some silliness. Disappointing score despite some moments of greatness (it wasn't all bad, by no means).

Intellectually dishonest statement to a vast degree.

Philosophically it's generally agreed that consciousness does exist. When it comes to neuroscience I see no way to put it to test except actually cutting the parts of brains out and seeing what happens, which used to be done on animals, but NEVER on a live human being. Functional MRI may not really be up to such research, I'm afraid.

Psychology generally agrees that consciousness (and the unconscious, "subconscious" is a psychoanalytical misnomer) does exist, too.

Precisely, Captain. We just don't know. And yet what we do know (e.g. if you damage a brain it affects cognition) at least implies consciousness is a result of the brain and its complex states of matter (including electrical signals, preempting any semantic pedantry). What is so controversial about admitting this? No where have I said that materialism is the only possible description for consciousness, merely that what we do know pushes an immaterial description into an ever smaller realm of possibility. Immaterial consciousness of the gaps if you will.

So contrary to your assertion that I'm guilty of ignoring probabilities, I'm doing precisely the opposite. My mind is perfectly open to the possibility that consciousness will never be fully explained by materialism. But, to paraphrase the famous quote, it's not so open that it falls out.

No amount of philosophical gymnastics will put an immaterial description of consciousness on a level playing field with the descriptions of it that we currently have (until, of course, evidence is found to the contrary - which I will happily accept). It's all just conjecture and, largely, wishful thinking. A phrase like 'dogmatic materialism' is often used in the hope to silence what simply doesn't feel nice to hear (much like 'islamaphobia'), where people seem to be uncomfortable with the idea that consciousness is nothing more than states of a naturally evolved complex brain. This is why people like myself, who point out the rather obvious, encounter this sort of pushback.

I'm not sure what you mean there Pawell, but it sounds dangerously close to a 'deepity'.