Chernobyl Soundtrack Used Reactor Sounds

Icelandic musician Hildur Gudnadottir composed the soundtrack for the 2019 miniseries "Chernobyl," which depicts the 1986 nuclear disaster. To build the score, she used field recordings from a real power plant in Lithuania. Those recordings captured the sounds of pumps, reactors, and turbines, giving the music an industrial sound tied directly to the world the series depicted.

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