Day 2,280: There Is A Sound…

There is a sound that SciFi film scores have.

I’m listening to Max Richter’s score for Ad Astra right now. The track is “Journey Sequence” and it has woodwinds, I think, playing this twinkling melody with some strings underneath for droning support…and it sounds like so many science fiction fillms.

This isn’t a bad thing. It sounds like space.

It sounds vast, and cold, and a little bit lonely, and a lot of filled with awe and wonder. Which is what I imagine space to be like.

So, you know, it’...