New Music Releases – Mike Patton – The Solitude Of Prime Numbers (Ipecac Records)

Mike Patton’s soundtrack to cinematic adaptation of Paolo Giordano novel of the same name.  It came out on November 1st on Patton’s own Ipecac label.

Musically, this score is utterly unlike Patton‘s previous efforts at the form, for the films A Perfect Place in 2008 and Crank High Voltagein 2009. The feel that runs throughout this score is quite conventional by contrast. These cues represent the movement of the narratives; film and novel follow the same story line but in very different ways, and Patton is the bridge from one to the other. Hints of classical music, both choral and instrumental, are tempered by a colorful palette of taut dynamics, dizzying atmospherics, ambiences, ambitious textures, and even somewhat conventional harmony. Assembled together, the soundtrack and incidental music comprise a unique work that stands on its own as a listening experience.
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Tracklist

And, no, we didn’t screw up the tracklist below – they’re all ordered by consecutive prime numbers. – Consequence of Sound

1. Twin Primes
2. Identity Matrix
3. Method of Infinite Descent
4. Contrapositive
5. Cicatrix
6. Abscissa
7. Isolated Primes
8. Radius of Convergence
9. Separatrix
   29.The Snow Angel
10. Apnoea
11. Supersingular Primes
12. Quadratix
13. Calculus of Finite Differences
14. Zeroth
15. Weight of Consequences
    Reviews: Consequence Of Sound | All Music | Tiny Mix Tapes | New Music Monkey | Sonic Abuse | The Sleeping Shaman
    Misc: Mike Patton Talks The Solitude Of Prime Numbers (Movieweb)