“Did you know that in the movie Interstellar, on the planet of water, the music starts with an incessant click every 1.25 sec, which represents the duration of an Earth day on that planet.”
After reading this in a post on a website, it greatly increased my interest in corroborating such genius in the sountrack composed by Hans Zimmer. and the work really begins with a sound like a click every 1.25 sec (60 / 1.25 = 48 Bpm in the metronome) and that is heard for almost 1 minute of work (this confirms that it is an important element in the discourse of the subject, and not something merely aesthetic).
It is said in the film that on this planet (Miller), each hour is equivalent to 7 Earth years, and based on that premise I began to do calculations with a simple rule of 3.
If 7 years has 2555 days (7 years x 365 days, I do not count leap years since they do not make a big difference in the results) and in 1 hour there are 3600 seconds (60 min x 60 sec), to know how many seconds 1 day would last Terrestrial on that planet, would be dividing the sec with the number of days 3600/2555 = 1.41 approximately … that is, every 1.41 sec passes a terrestrial day on that planet, so “being literal” the tempo of the work should be 60 /1.41 = 42.5 Bpm on the metronome (5.5 Bpm less than the original work).
In fact, I always say that the Interstellar Movie soundtrack is masterful for the effective use of the few musical resources that we find there (and you have to be a capo to achieve it), this detail of the click raises my admiration for Hans’s work. Now that it does not coincide with the previously exposed calculations, it does not detract at all, since if you take as a basis that each day lasts 1.25 sec you would obtain in an hour 2880 days what would be equivalent to 7 years and 10 months approx which would be somehow in the range of what was stated by physicist / astronaut Romilly who makes a quick calculation considering what happened. The important thing is the concept that contains that detail, hence one must try that our literality does not destroy the genius of some things. Good luck to all over there lmL
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