Soundtrack Released: Rebekka Karijord’s Score from ‘Explorer’
Composer and singer-songwriter Rebekka Karijord (she/her) has released her original motion picture soundtrack to Explorer, the Universal Pictures feature documentary directed by Mathew Dyas and produced by George Chignell. The film – a portrait of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes (aka Ran) – goes beyond a simple retrospective of his record breaking achievements to reveal the person behind the myth, featuring exclusive access to his closest friends and archive footage spanning decades of expeditions. The soundtrack was released on Oona Recordings.
To musically accompany and highlight the story of Ran, Karijord sculpted a hybrid score by creating a signature instrument that samples the radio and morse signals from archive recordings of Ran´s expeditions. This electro-acoustic instrument was mixed with a 12-piece string ensemble, woodwind ensemble and vocal ensemble to create an organic, vivid, and emotionally dynamic score to offer an insight into the nuances to the dramaturgy of the story.
Throughout the scoring process, Karijord used processed voices and vocal ensemble recordings, as well as representative "female" voices from the natural world, to underline the female forces in Ran´s life, most importantly that of his late wife Ginny as the brain behind many of the expeditions. This score features driving, orchestral rhythms written in odd meters; quirky, sampled electro-acoustic sounds; and female vocals recorded in an "imperfect" manner to match the documentary footage, much of which was shot on Super 8 from some of the world’s highest mountains and fiercest arctic environments.
Rebekka Karijord’s Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Explorer is now available for streaming or digital purchase on all platforms. Explorer comes to UK theaters on July 14, 2022.
