Released2022
RecordedLos Angeles
DirectorJaume Collet-Serra
My goal was to get the emotion and darkness of the main character’s back story across to the audience, whilst simultaneously intertwining the old themes and familiarities of the DC comic book world and introducing a new class of superheroes.
One way to bring in the feeling of an ancient world together was to collaborate with traditional instruments from Latin America, India, Africa and the Middle East. A particular highlight for me was a percussion session I did where we enlisted several musicians playing various traditional instruments together to achieve this specific sound.
Further, we had a large brass section across the score to give the weight and power of the main character’s past, which I balanced out with high tempo, more melodic sounds to give the audience that more familiar heroic feel. We also experimented a lot with a choir on this project which was able to contribute a unique and classical sound that ties in nicely with Black Adam’s story.
ORIGINAL SCORE
LORNE BALFE
SCORE PRODUCED BY
LORNE BALFE
SCORE PRODUCTION COORDINATORS
RUTH TITMARSH, ASHLEIGH KELLY
MUSIC EDITORS
RONALD WEBB, CATHERINE WILSON, BARBARA MCDERMOTT
MUSIC CLEARANCE
JESSICA DOLINGER
CONDUCTORS
JAMES BRETT, PETE ANTHONY
LEAD ORCHESTRA
ADAM PRICE
ADDITIONAL ORCHESTRATORS
HARRY BROKENSHA, JAMES YAN, JACK MCKENZIE, AARON KING, SAMUEL READ
ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
ADAM PRICE, KEVIN RIEPL, PETER ADAMS, STEVEN DAVIS, STUART THOMAS
ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING
RUFIO SANDILANDS
TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
ETHAN GILLESPIE, MICHAEL BITTON
MUSIC PREPARATION
BOOKER WHITE, NICHOLAS CAZARES, MARTIN MCCLELLAN
SCORE RECORDED BY
LAURENCE ANSLOW
PROTOOLS OPERATOR
LARRY MAH
SCORE MIXED BY
PETE COBBIN, KIRSTY WHALLE
SCORE EDITOR
CHRIS BARRETT
SCORE PROGRAMMER
HEX
SCORING CONSULTANT
CELESTE CHADA
ALBUM MASTERED BY
GAVIN LURSSEN AT LURSSEN MASTERING, REUBEN COHEN AT LURSSEN MASTERING
SCORE RECORDED AT
SONY PICTURES STUDIOS, STREISAND SCORING STAGE
MUSIC CONTRACTING AND COORDINATION
PETER ROTTER FOR ENCOMPASS MUSIC PARTNERS
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
GABE HILFER
EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF MUSIC FOR NEW LINE
ERIN SCULLY
EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF WATERTOWER MUSIC
JASON LINN
ART DIRECTION AND PRODUCTION FOR WATERTOWER MUSIC
SANDEEP SRIRAM
SOUNDTRACK COORDINATOR
JEN O’MALLEY
SCORE PUBLISHED BY
NEW LINE TUNES (ASCAP)
