This is the part of the

This is the part of the Odyssey score that I can't stop thinking about. Ludwig Göransson's approach to the song of the sirens is just fascinating to me. If you didn't know, he challenged him to immerse himself in the period for the score. There is no orchestra. Instead, there's a lot of percussion on bronze instruments or even found metal, scrap metal. At one point, they're banging on an air conditioning unit. They're also using accurate instruments from the period. That meant an authentic lyre for that Odysseus bow motif. And then for the song of the sirens, they used this flute called an aulos. It's an ancient you can see it depicted in a lot of art and the way that they use it on this song is just incredible to me. It's a very, very simple four note piece that but it's exactly what Odysseus describes the it's reaching and then it's falling. it's the thing you want most is what you can't have and what you can't have is what you had and lost. and you just hear this going up and going back and going up and going back and it never escapes it's trapped there. and it is so, so haunting. and it is raw. there's not perfect playing there's one point that i love where you can hear the artist gasping for air. it's this desperation that fits the scene it is incredible. i can't stop i'm a little worried that this song is going to pop up in my Spotify wrapped at the end of the year, but it's really awesome. and I've seen people say that they don't like that we didn't get to hear and I think that's both part of effective sound the way that they cut all the other sound when the last person to plug his ears with beeswax. but I think maybe we do hear the song. it's exactly what Odysseus describes. it's just abstract and it's simple, but it is hauntingly beautiful and i can't stop listening to it. so let me know what but I absolutely loved it.