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Finneas O’Connell Used Synths That Sounded Like A “Swarm Of Bees” To Capture The Stressful Sound Of ‘Beef’ – Sound & Screen TV

Deadline·Peter White·25 days ago
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Finneas O’Connell, who won an Oscar for his work on James Bond song “No Time To Die,” is best known for producing songs such as sister Billie Eilish’s Grammy-winning “Bad Guy.” The musician is also responsible for scoring the second season of Netflix ’s Beef , and he closed out Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television awards-season event with a beautiful-but-violent performance of some of the drama’s main themes. O’Connell revealed that one of his tricks was finding synths that sounded like a “swarm of bees.” “I live in L.A. near a golf course. You walk by and you hear all of this kind of rhythm in nature. You hear the sprinkler system going and I wanted that to be part of the stressful tempo of the show,” he said. “Then I found these synth patches that, if I turned the envelopes and changed the cutoffs, and then I took the like little pitch-bend thing on the Nord and wobbled it, it really sounded like bees, and it just really stressed me out to play.…

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