Hildur Gudnadottir - Joker

 

Hildur Gudnadottir — Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Celebrating the 5-year anniversary of the original release with a purple vinyl edition reissue

Hildur Guonadottir started playing the cello at the age of 4. Her music career took her from her native Iceland to LA's red carpets. The Emmy, Oscar and Bafta-winning composer based her score for Joker on the feelings she experienced reading the screenplay.

The composition features the cello as the centerpiece of the score, leading string-based melodies played by a symphony orchestra of 90 musicians. To interpret the many themes explored throughout the film, director Todd Phillips very early on turned to the composer. "Hildur was writing music as far back as pre-production. I was sending her script pages and she was writing music before we even shot, and what she did for the film is so unique," says Phillips.

Guðnadóttir remarks, "Todd asked me to write some music based on my feelings from reading the script, which I was inspired to do because it truly resonated with me." She sent him a sample and recalls, "The film is a gritty character study, which to me translated to melodies that are very simple and monotonic, because that's kind of the way Joaquin's character Arthur is seeing things. Then I tried to expand within that simplicity the orchestration around Joker's evolution not with chords or any complicated music, but with texture that I felt resonated with the melancholia of this character."

To celebrate the 5-year anniversary of its original release, the Joker soundtrack is now available on a special purple vinyl reissue edition.

1. Hoyt's Office

2. Defeated Clown

3. Following Sophie

4. Penny in the Hospital

5. Young Penny

6. Meeting Bruce Wayne

7. Hiding in the Fridge

8. A Bad Comedian

9. Arthur Comes to Sophie

10. Looking for Answers

11. Penny Taken to the Hospital

12. Subway

13. Bathroom Dance

14. Learning How to Act Normal

15. Confession

16. Escape from the Train

17. Call Me Joker

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