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Which composer built the recurring ticking clock motif in his 2014 Interstellar score from the mechanism of an actual pocket watch?
Answer
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer scored Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and used the sound of a real clock's ticking mechanism as the foundation for the film's central musical motif, tying the score directly to the movie's themes of time and relativity.
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Hans Zimmer's Interstellar score includes a ticking clock representing time itself—he built the sound from an actual clock's mechanism.
Other options people guess
- John Williams
- Alexandre Desplat
- Thomas Newman
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- interstellar
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