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A conductor's baton raised against a warm spotlight on a dark stage.

The Film Score Is Doing Work Nothing Else Can

After a decade in which the needle drop seemed to be winning, the original film score has come back with a specific force. An essay on what the current generation of composers is doing that their predecessors could not.

Jules Okonkwo·24 Mar·7 min

A neatly tended garden with a high wall running along its far edge

Film

The Zone of Interest and the Sound as Argument

Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust film works by almost never showing us the Holocaust. Two years out, the sound design is still one of the most radical formal choices of the decade.

Lena Ashworth·5 Jun·5 min