{"id":973818,"date":"2019-12-02T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=920657"},"modified":"2019-12-02T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:42:58","slug":"m-night-shyamalan-just-wanted-the-score-for-the-servant-to-be-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/m-night-shyamalan-just-wanted-the-score-for-the-servant-to-be-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"M. Night Shyamalan Just Wanted the Score for \u2018The Servant\u2019 to Be Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M. Night Shyamalan<\/a> had one note for composer Trevor Gureckis when it came to the music for his new Apple+ series The Servant<\/a><\/em>: \u201cThat\u2019s not weird enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe instrumentation came through a lot of experimentation with Night,\u201d Gureckis tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t different for different\u2019s sake; I wanted to create a world that\u2019s very unusual. The audience should feel unsettled.\u201d The first three episodes of the 10-part series premiered on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

The show centers around wealthy Philadelphia couple Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell) and their baby, Jericho, and \u2014 for the sake of preserving several of Shyamalan\u2019s famous twists \u2014 we\u2019ll just say that things start to get weird when the Turners hire 18-year-old nanny Leanne (Nell Tiger Free). If you\u2019ve seen the 2016 Netflix original movie The Boy<\/em>, you might have a sense of where this is going.<\/p>\n

Since most of the movie takes place in the couple\u2019s tasteful brownstone \u2014 and features a limited cast \u2014 Gureckis approached the show like a play. \u201cI started scaling back more and more,\u201d he says. \u201cIt became more and more about the subtle and smaller instruments. I just started bowing lots of stuff trying to get this glassy, transparent sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music is sparse, featuring glockenspiel and clarinet, piano and glass bowls. Producer and director Shyamalan stepped in often when the instrumentation sounded too \u201cnormal,\u201d Gureckis says.<\/p>\n

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Mostly, the composer (who also scored 2019\u2019s The Goldfinch<\/em>) focused his efforts on the mysterious Leanne. \u201cIt\u2019s important to grasp Leanne\u2019s place in the house and in the family,\u201d he says. \u201cIs she good? Is she evil? Is she misunderstood? There\u2019s so many levels to her character and I wanted to be able to have a musical language that follows her that could capture that. Sometimes I\u2019ll use piano or wailing instruments that I\u2019ll play with a bow \u2014 it creates this liturgical sound, because she has this religious part of her experience that\u2019s really unsettling to Sean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple+ is rolling out episodes weekly instead of all at once, so viewers will watch the mystery unfold over time \u2014 an experience that Gureckis says mirrored his own. He started scoring the show without knowing how it ended, allowing him to explore characters as he learned more about them. \u201cI\u2019m not in on the bigger concepts, but I\u2019m just following the characters and how they seem to be,\u201d he says. \u201cThat keeps me on my toes in terms of capturing who Leanne really is. I\u2019m really tracking her just like an audience member is tracking her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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M. Night Shyamalan had one note for composer Trevor Gureckis when it came to the music for his new Apple+ series The Servant: \u201cThat\u2019s not weird enough.\u201d \u201cThe instrumentation came through a lot of experimentation with Night,\u201d Gureckis tells Rolling Stone. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t different for different\u2019s sake; I wanted to create a world that\u2019s very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 06:23:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}