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Music will release the soundtrack album for Steve Jobs, the new film from Academy Award®-winning director
Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-winning writer
Aaron Sorkin, on October 9 - with the album presale available now on iTunes - it was announced today. The Steve Jobs Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack features new music by Award-winning composer
Daniel Pemberton, as well as two iconic tracks from Bob Dylan, and songs by The
Libertines and the Maccabees.
Universal Pictures' Steve Jobs, which stars Michael Fassbender as the pioneering founder of Apple, will be released in New York and Los Angeles on October 9. The film will expand to additional North American markets on October 16 and wide on October 23.
Prior to the beginning of principal photography, Pemberton worked alongside the filmmakers to develop a unique approach to composing the music for the three distinct periods of time depicted in Steve Jobs. What they've created is a symphonic tour de force with three distinguishable aural points of view to complement the film's narrative arc:
The first movement, set in 1984, expresses the optimism of Jobs' first product launch, the Macintosh. Restricting himself to equipment of the time and embracing their limitations, Pemberton utilized what is now technology of the past - synthesizers such as the Yamaha CS-80, Roland SH-1000, Roland Juno-60, and Moog Minimoog - to reflect that era's visions of the future, while still creating a sound world that would sit comfortably alongside Sorkin's dialogue and Boyle's direction.
The second movement, set in 1988 at the San Francisco Opera House, sees the unveiling of the NeXTcube with a theatrical orchestral fantasia. With composed, large-scale operatic pieces, elaborate emotional transformations of a simple tuning-up sequence, and a dramatic symphony, the score reflects both Jobs the conductor and ringmaster - as well as a man focused on revenge.
The more reflective, internal, and emotional third movement takes us to 1998 with Jobs' unveiling of the iMac, and echoes the various ways in which we utilize computers as we know them today. "Today, I write pretty much everything I do on an Apple machine descended, in part, from that iMac," said Pemberton. "I use a piece of Apple software called Logic. I can write music, manipulate sounds, produce recordings, and express myself as an artist without ever leaving the computer."
Pemberton is an Ivor Novello Award-winning and multi-BAFTA-nominated composer who is well known for embracing a wide range of musical mediums - from electronic to orchestral - throughout his work. After more than a decade establishing himself as one of the most inventive and experimental voices in British television, Pemberton moved into the world of film with the period supernatural thriller The Awakening. His hybrid choral, orchestral, and electronic score caught the ear of Ridley Scott, who hired the composer to score The Counselor. He collaborated again with Scott on the director's foray into television, The Vatican. In 2014, Pemberton won the Discovery of the Year Award at the prestigious World
Soundtrack Awards for his work on Cuban Fury and The Counselor. This year has seen the release of Pemberton's acclaimed soundtrack to Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
About the Film
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs' career - beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998 - Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award® winner
Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award® winner
Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress
Kate Winslet starring as
Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley. The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team. www.stevejobsthefilm.com
Track List (all tracks by
Daniel Pemberton, unless otherwise noted):
The Musicians Play Their Instruments…
It's Not Working
Child (Father)
Jack It Up
The Circus of Machines I (Overture)
Russian Roulette
Change the World
The Skylab Plan
Don't Look Back Into the Sun - The Libertines
…I Play The Orchestra
The Circus of Machines II (Allegro)
Revenge
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob Dylan
It's An Abstract
Life Out of Balance
The Nature of People
1998. The New Mac.
Father (Child)
Remember
Grew Up At Midnight - The Maccabees
Shelter from the
Storm - Bob Dylan
Pre-order the album: https://smarturl.it/SteveJobsOST
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