13 hours Ago By Armando Tinoco
Siddhartha Khosla might have procrastinated reading the script for Hulu ‘s Paradise , but once it was read, the composer made magic in his latest collaboration with series creator (and pal from college) Dan Fogelman. “Dan will send me scripts and it will always it takes me months to read them,” Khosla said in a panel conversation for the series at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television. “I have other stuff I’m busy with, or I’m also just a procrastinator a little bit.
And with Paradise , he sent me his script and it was like the subject heading was like, ‘For your eyes only. Nobody else has seen this. Tell me what you think.
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Watch on Deadline “And so I went home that night freaking out, and I read the script was blown away and I wrote this theme very quickly,” he said. “I sent it to him on like an iPhone recording, and he was like, ‘That’s the theme. Play it on Thursday.
’ So that’s how that happened.” Khosla said he approached the theme song by keeping it “grounded in the sort of emotional relationship between the characters,” adding, “I wanted to make something incredibly cinematic. It was like the goal.
I was like, I want this to feel like film.” “Though it took me like six months to read his script. I also started writing the score six months before we shot, and so I started sharing ideas and sounds,” he continued.
“A lot of the loops that you’re hearing are sounds taken from my voice from oddly played strings on violins and cellos, and looping them and creating these expansive textures out of them. And then just putting them on loop over and over again and then building from there. This felt really organic.
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we wanted to constantly feel unsettled there in the score.” Khosla recently won an Emmy for his work on Only Murders in the Building and says scoring that show is not different than scoring Paradise . “I think like Only Murders is as much of a drama as it is a comedy,” he said.
“I think at the end of the day, like with Paradise , with Only Murders , it’s just trying to find the subtext of the story. Underneath any comedy is a traumatic story as well. Only Murders is about these three disparate souls living in a building in New York.
It’s their loneliness that I score to oftentimes. And here, even though this is a sci-fi sort of environment, it’s really about everyone trying to find personal connections with the people that they lost or that they are missing.” Check back Monday for the panel video.
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