Nicholas Britell on the Art of the Film Score
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Chopped and Screwed Technique
Barry had told me about his love of chopped and screwed music, which is a style of southern hippop. When you slow the track down, the pitch goes way down. So there's this totally deepened and enriched musical texture that the audio takes on. We were just like, what what if we did that with a classical scorlike? What if i recorded my own music, and then i took those recordings and applied that chop and screw technique to them? And that's one of those ideas, i think, early on, where it sounds interesting, but also you never know, it could work, it might not work. But when we put those ideas up against the picture,
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