Max Richter shares new song "To The Stars" from AD ASTRA soundtrack

AD ASTRA, directed by James Gray, will be soundtracked by Max Richter, and stars Brad Pitt as the leading role.

The synopsis on the IMDB page reads, "Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe."

"To The Stars" is the first track to be shared from the soundtrack.

Speaking about the ideas for the soundtrack, Richter explains, "I first saw a rough-cut of the film in early 2018 and was immediately intrigued. I knew I wanted to be part of the world James was inventing in AD ASTRA. After James, Brad and I had discussed some initial thoughts, I began by making sketches away from the picture, exploring the themes and psychology of this material in musical terms. These ideas evolved through a collective process of experimentation. James has excellent musical taste, and a refined sense of how sonic and visual objects can inform one another. He’s also fascinated by the expressive possibilities of experimental music production, so was an ideal fellow traveller on this musical voyage of discovery."

The soundtrack will also feature sounds transmitted from Voyager 1 and 2. Richter says, "This 'location recording' approach allowed me to use actual material recorded at the sites depicted in the story: when Brad is travelling past Saturn or Jupiter for example, we can actually hear music made from the data the Voyager probes transmitted from that site. The music thus illuminates the story in two ways at once: it illustrates what’s happening in the story a traditional film score way, but it also documents the journey in an entirely new way, by incorporating actual material gathered on the trip."