MAX RICHTER - Award-winning Composer & Pianist - Ad Astra, Black Mirror, Shutter Island, The Leftovers, Arrival, Taboo

Composer Max Richter is known for his ability to translate profound human emotions into music. Max’s record Sleep is the most streamed classical album of all time and his catalogue has surpassed 3 billion streams.

A prolific collaborator, he scored and performed for Kim Jones for the Dior shows, and the new Wayne McGregor and Margaret Atwood ballet MADDADDAM, and arts collective Random International on the Rain Room installation.

Max has collaborated with film directors Denis Villeneuve, Martin Scorsese, and Ari Folman, and scored film & TV including Ad Astra, Black Mirror, Shutter Island, The Leftovers, Arrival and his Emmy-nominated score for Taboo.

He’s the co-founder of Studio Richter Mahr, with his partner and artist Yulia Mahr in Oxfordshire, UK. Max and Yulia built the studio around an old tractor barn, and have powered it with cutting-edge solar and heat-pump technology. It’s a haven for their family and community of musicians and artists which regularly come through. Set within 31 acres of woodland, Max and Yulia have a huge passion for using the land to farm and provide a sustainable working environment as well as using creativity as an elevating force within society. Operating as a free space for artists to develop their work, the studio also works with local partners to support the local community.

"I only do cinema and film and TV projects which really matter to me, where I think that it's important, there's something being said here which I want to support. So mostly I will start with just making some sketches from the script.

Of course, it's a journey, and it's a fundamentally collaborative journey. So, once the images start to happen, then there's a whole dialogue process with the rest of the creative team about how music can best inhabit, support, and serve the rest of the material. And it's really a series of experiments. It's to do with keeping a very open mind, trying things, and seeing what happens. It's an exciting kind of collaborative laboratory experiment, I think, working on film and television, and I enjoy it, the sort of puzzle solving, the questioning. It's good fun."

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Max Richter’s music featured in this episode in order of appearance "On the Nature of Daylight” from The Blue Notebooks, Path 19: Yet Frailest” from Sleep, “Spring 1” from The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed, "Lullaby From The Westcoast Sleepers” from 24 Postcards in Full Colour, Vladimir’s Blues” from The Blue Notebooks.

Music is courtesy of Max Richter, Universal Music Enterprises, and Mute Song.