Development
Foxcatcher features a musical score composed by Rob Simonsen,who recorded most of the music at AIR Studios in London. He said the film has a sensibility of sparseness as "the notes or colors that do show up have a greater impact". [1] After he listened to Jacob Cohen's cello performance at a subway stop platform,Simonsen eventually brought him to record the cello solos. [1]
Music supervisor Susan Jacobs selected samples from various composers to be used as placeholders for the temp music. Among these were recordings by film composer West Dylan Thordson,which Miller liked. After Thordson met Miller in New York City the following year,Thordson decided to move to New York to compose the test score. Eventually,however,he became involved as a co-composers. Mychael Danna,whom Miller had worked with in Capote (2005) and Moneyball (2011),was assigned to complete the finished score. However,Simonsen would receive the credit for the principal composer. [2]
According to Thordson,there was a "similar intimacy to the melodic voices all three of us [composers] gravitate towards". While Danna and Simonsen evoked a sophisticated quality,Thordson incorporated a rough and handmade sound,reminiscent of "the world of a slightly out-of-tune farmhouse piano". [2]
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