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But if there’s more instrumentation, I’ll do an orchestration of it and arrange it like I would do with the rest of the score, and then flesh it out with additional instruments.

“If it stays on the piano, I’ll just do a solo piano arrangement. I figure out the melody and the harmony and all the parts that go with it,” he said. “I just listen to the song and do a takedown by ear. And it’s easy to see why, as that’s when Djawadi gets to work his magic - he deconstructs a modern song in a process he calls a “piano reduction,” a process that can sometimes take multiple weeks from start to finish. “Whichever song he brings out, I get excited, because I’ve loved every one he picks,” Djawadi said. It gives it that contemporary spin.”Īs Djawadi puts it, Nolan chooses the contemporary songs and slots them into their appropriate place in the show’s narrative. It was always a subconscious reminder of the fact that this world is not real. Like, the people controlling the park are playing their favorite tracks. “But then, the fact that this is a theme park we realized, Wait, we can almost treat this as a jukebox. “Initially, this idea started out with the fact that visually we saw a player-piano in the Mariposa Saloon, and the obvious choice was to play songs from that Western era,” Ramin Djawadi, the show’s music supervisor, recently told Vulture. Although it might seem odd to hear an orchestral Radiohead arrangement accompanying an old-timey fight scene, that’s exactly what showrunner Jonathan Nolan intended for Westworld from day one.

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But for those indeed blessed with a sonic gift, a fascinating musical trend has been prevalent ever since the series premiered in 2016: In addition to traditional Americana tunes, modern songs are featured in the techno-western park, featuring covers of the Rolling Stones with as much frequency as, say, the likes of Scott Joplin. They are the keys that sound even when Ford isn’t operating them.With all those intertwining, head-scratching narratives, we wouldn’t blame you for not keeping too close of an ear to Westworld’s use of music throughout its second season. The image is one of orchestration and the illusion of agency the hosts, programmed to run on “loops,” play what they are programmed to play. Robert Ford-Westworld’s conductor-often plays the piano both in the park and the digital representation of the park's data. The fingers then lift off the keys, the keys play on regardless.

Throughout every season, the one consistent image in the opening credits remains the fingers playing the saloon’s piano. Then there’s music’s image-the orchestra, the conductor, the visual order of sound.

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It’s a kind of displacement appropriate for a show that constantly bends and twists its own medium, pulling the rug out from under the reader with alternating timelines and slight-of-hand editing-it’s also a movie that feels familiar (the western), but is not (the sci-fi). The music suited neither the American Western era nor the future world in which the series takes place. In season 1, the Rolling Stones’ “Paint it Black” orchestral cover overlaid rock and roll with western gun fights and saloon robberies. The use of cover music, for instance, communicates something of the series’ other-worldliness-something familiar and yet not. But Djawadi is also able to achieve something more interesting. Composer Ramin Djawadi ( Game of Thrones) accomplishes the first feat easily enough with the opening ear warm (can you hear it already? Do-do-do-dodododo, do-do-dooo. It both builds the fictional world and communicates something about that world to a viewer. In Westworld, music isn’t just atmospheric it’s thematic.

Here are all the songs from Westworld Season 3 so far.The series' original score is composed by Ramin Djawadi, and also features licensed songs.HBO's Westworld has brought itself back online for Season 3.

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