Arrival's music score by Johann Johannsson

Has anyone seen the film? I enjoyed it thoroughly, and was heavily effected. I've never experienced an end scene that took me to such an emotional place. I literally cried, no balling or anything lol, but a few tears down my cheek, totally shameless. It was worth every minute. Typically movies give you bits of meaning throughout and big payoffs after the rising action or right before, with a nod and some reflecting on emotion at the end, but this film felt like a giant crescendo of emotion that just exploded, yet so gracefully at the end. Totally unexpected and a beautiful experience. I don't know if I 'd feel this way however, without the absolute masterpiece of a score which closed with that ending finale--a gentle but powerful pulsing through mountains of feeling, oozing out of those triumphant cello passages. It was like everything i could dream of for a film score in a matter of minutes. I immediately thought to myself. "This HAS to be Ryuichi Sakamoto", but after researching, discovered it was this composer Johann Jóhannsson, who I've never heard of. Looks like he's done work with Tim Hecker , Pan Sonic and other experimental electronic artists.

I'm left incredibly inspired.

cool

The score to The Revenant was done by Ryuichi and Alva Noto in case you dint know

The trailer looks shit. I love Johann Johannsson though so i might give it a try.

it has a pretty good tomatoes score https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/arrival_2016/

its based on a book thats supposed to be good

Fantastic film and soundtrack, it all comes together in a perfect way for me.

that Johansson man somehow triggers me. There's a lot of praise for him, but whenever I try listening it's same pretentious, tear-jerky, boring shit.

Seems to be an either love him or hate him kinda deal.

I find his music boring most of the time but he did great job with the soundtrack imo

  On 12/18/2016 at 12:48 AM, phling said:

that Johansson man somehow triggers me. There's a lot of praise for him, but whenever I try listening it's same pretentious, tear-jerky, boring shit.

 

Seems to be an either love him or hate him kinda deal.

feel this way about max richter. no opinion on johansson although some of the music in arrival was cool in a ligeti jupiter and beyond sort of way.

  On 12/17/2016 at 8:52 PM, Salvatorin said:

The score to The Revenant was done by Ryuichi and Alva Noto in case you dint know

Yes for sure, loved that score/movie. Sakamoto was like 75% of the reason i went to see it lol... Have you heard their minimal / glitch collab album together? Brilliant stuff.

Actually come to think of it, there are some Sakamoto / Morelenbaum similarities in those cadences in the piece from The Arrival, but looking back, I know if it was Sakamoto doing it, he would have added some slight jazzy dissonance in the variations and transitions--just enough to make the pretty parts even more pretty, and juxtapose them with darkness--creating an instant nut-in-your-pants effect. :D

The Johann piece was bursting with color and feeling for sure, I wonder if he borrowed a few lessons from the Babel soundtrack. The only piece that might be more beautiful to me is Ryuichi's Energy Flow or maybe Rain. I would say Ascience (my fav piece of his) though that piece is almost in a different category, because it's more spiritful, and epic with contemporary Asian elements than his other more reflective numbers.

@xox & keanu

yea agree.. as film score, his stuff works.

he also did Sicario which I like a lot, including the soundtrack.

but aye, Max Richter bleh...

Finally saw this a few days ago. Excellent film, and I love this flavor of sci-fi. Conversely with some opinions here, I didn't think much of Johannsson's score, but the one track I really liked was what turned out to be the Richter piece. I haven't really listened to much of his work, but a year or two ago I attended and enjoyed a performance of his piece "Infra."

Anyway, I also haven't dug around Johannsson's discography much but I can recommend that IBM User Manual one, it is pretty cool. I don't think it's as unnecessarily repetitious as his other work, as odd of a complaint that is coming from a fan of repetitive music.

  On 12/18/2016 at 3:05 AM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 12/17/2016 at 8:52 PM, Salvatorin said:

The score to The Revenant was done by Ryuichi and Alva Noto in case you dint know

Yes for sure, loved that score/movie. Sakamoto was like 75% of the reason i went to see it lol... Have you heard their minimal / glitch collab album together? Brilliant stuff.

 

Cyclo - id is one of my favorite raster-noton releases. V good

  On 12/18/2016 at 12:48 AM, phling said:

that Johansson man

Ha, oh shit I confused Sakamoto with Ikeda, oops. Re: those collabs for real though, they're all worth checking out! There's one with a chamber string ensemble with a great atmosphere: utp_.

  On 12/18/2016 at 12:48 AM, phling said:

that Johansson man somehow triggers me. There's a lot of praise for him, but whenever I try listening it's same pretentious, tear-jerky, boring shit.

 

Seems to be an either love him or hate him kinda deal.

 im a fan of  certain Johannsson albums 

since 2012, he only released 2 albums I really like: Copenhagen dreams (2012) (arguably his best work) and Orphée (2016) (one of my favorite release this year). 

dont miss Copenhagen dreams, a true masterpiece in the genre.

Sadly, he has now died.

http://www.factmag.com/2018/02/10/johann-johannsson-has-died-aged-48/

Sad news. I bought concert tickets last year, but forgot to go to the show.

Just found out. Awful news.

Really strange and very sad. I wonder what his story was.

well i just heard / the news today / that johannsson / has passed away 

i close my eyes / and begin to say / wtf mannnn / this shit's so gaaaaaaaayyyy

im reallllly pissed off

aww yeahhhh 

  On 2/11/2018 at 1:07 AM, Lane Visitor said:

Really strange and very sad. I wonder what his story was.

I wondered if it was tied in with the Bladerunner 2049 score. There was never any official explanation as to why he was taken off the project. Maybe it was actually due to health concerns. Anyway, his death is a private thing for his family and shouldn’t really concern anyone else.

wtf is up with this week. :(

RIP :(

  On 2/11/2018 at 3:56 AM, fumi said:

I wondered if it was tied in with the Bladerunner 2049 score. There was never any official explanation as to why he was taken off the project. Maybe it was actually due to health concerns.