Seeing superstar Will Smith visit remote locations on the planet was the hook for the National Geographic docuseries Welcome to Earth.
Daniel Pemberton’s job was to provide Smith’s journey with a sound, and he said during a panel for the series at Deadline’s Sound & Screen concert event that he used some he’d never played before.“A big thing for me was trying to make it not sound like anything you’ve heard before,” Pemberton said onstage during the TV music event at UCLA’s Royce Hall. “The idea with the show is seeing the world in a way you’ve never seen it before.
I always wanted music that didn’t feel what you’d expect and use sounds that you wouldn’t expect. “Pemberton said in his music career, he often experimented with sounds that never made it into traditional scores.
Welcome to Earth, which streams on Disney+, gave him a chance to employ them.“A lot of it is a lot of strange sounds,” he said. “I spent a long time making and recording weird noises all my life.
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