David Shire
| Zodiac: Original Motion Picture Score | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by David Shire | ||||
| Released | March 13, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 39:57 | |||
| Label | Varèse Sarabande | |||
| Producer | David Shire Martin Erskine |
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| Allmusic | |
At first, it was decided that only ten minutes was needed and this gradually increased until he realized that there was no money for the score, just for the 40 musical cues. After using music from The Conversation and All the President's Men for the film’s temp track, it was decided that they should get David Shire (composer of both of these films) to do it. Fincher was eager to work with Shire as All the President’s Men was one of his favorite films and one of the primary cinematic influences on Zodiac. Shire composed 27 minutes of music performed by the San Francisco Orchestra and said, “There are 12 signs of the Zodiac and there is a way of using atonal and tonal music. So we used 12 tones, never repeating any of them but manipulating them.” He used specific instruments to represent the characters: “the trumpet was Toschi, the solo piano was Graysmith and the dissonant strings were the serial killer Zodiac.”
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