Platoon will release the original series soundtrack for season two of Silo on November 15th, in conjunction with the season's debut on Apple TV+. The gripping, world building Apple Original drama based on Hugh Howey's New York Times bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels, stars an ensemble cast led by Rebecca Ferguson. The original series score for Silo is composed by Atli Örvarsson, the acclaimed BAFTA and Emmy nominated Icelandic film and TV composer, conductor, and musician, with a vast body of work spanning film, television and video games. He has collaborated with artists including Hans Zimmer, RZA, Olafur Arnalds, Khalid, and Talos.
"Everytime you start a new project, it's a leap into the unknown," shares Örvarsson. "So when I was first approached about the show I was incredibly intrigued by it. I'd been kind of secretly wishing for a sci-fi project for a long time. Just hearing about the story and hearing about the script and starting to see the images, my mind just went to this idea of isolation, claustrophobia, and obviously big brother watching you. It's like the walls are closing in on you, but then you need to portray the inner lives of a very character driven personal drama." Örvarsson first started with programming "weird" static drones on a synthesizer, and followed his intuition from there, leading to piano and other sounds. "A score for something like Silo is worldbuilding," he says, "it's about building the sonic musical world of what that place is like, and what that life is like. It just kind of grew organically and found its own life somehow. It was just a journey of following where the breadcrumbs took me."
Those breadcrumbs would lead Örvarsson to the idea of recording parts of the soundtrack within an actual decommissioned silo located in one of the most isolated parts of Iceland. "I'd been fascinated by the idea of how space is almost just as important to the music as the instrumentation or the tune, because it just has some sort of magic and vibe built into it. We came away with sounds that you simply can't recreate in the studio or in a normal recording hall. Its got its own identity that you can only get by going on these crazy adventures like going to a silo in the Westfjords."