Development
Brian D'Olivera composed the film score. [1] D'Olivera spent six months with writer Beau DeMayo to ascertain the musical sound world and the character themes as a singular cohesive musical voice which felt familiar and uniquely distinctive. He decided to explore the darker and deeper side the continental sound in the most "unusual way", which led him to his extensive knowledge of medieval and baroque music which blended with other musical traditions all over the world. His learnings and experience with Indian classical music became the foundation for the musical aesthetics. With all of this work, D'Olivera was able to deliver rapidly during the production process by recording all of the scores one track at a time, emulating the performances so it gets a feeling of how classic anime scores were composed. [2] [3]
With his extensive research in the field, D'Olivera had custom-developed his own recording techniques and virtual musical instruments based on this technology. This gave him the ability to extremely pitch and manipulate recorded sounds while retaining the full spectral resolution allowing him to access sounds and textures that humans would never normally hear by conventional means. He considered it as an invaluable toolset to bring out the magical and otherworldly qualities of the universe and was able to acheive the sonic representations of the mutations and dark magic elements that penetrated the storyline. [2]
Citing an example of a scene, where Vesemir discovered the lab that creating Chimeras, the main instrument was a medieval bowed viol pitched down several octaves and sounded like "an ancient dark, and almost voice-like instrument" which did not exist but perfectly fitted the mood and storytelling. Vesemir's "Trial Of The Grasses" served as a one of the key moments where D'Olivera dwelled into the extremes of Vesemir's flamboyant personality juxtaposed with the violence and his pain. He considered it the first piece he composed that becoming the foundation of the rest of the score in terms of aesthetic and intensity through the music, melody and texture. [2]
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