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Advice:

If you want to hear only the "Arrival" soundtrack, I recommend that when you start your game, you go to the in-game playlist and deactivate all the default Stellaris tracks. In the in-game music player list, the tracks are sorted by albums. Just identify the tracks that belong to Stellaris and disable them. Once you've done that, you won't have to repeat that step because the game itself saves your playlist settings.

Description:

Jóhann Jóhannsson began writing the score as shooting started, drawing on the screenplay and concept art for inspiration. He developed one of the main themes in the first week using vocals and experimental piano loops. The original soundtrack was released by Deutsche Grammophon on November 11, 2016.

Max Richter's pre-existing piece "On the Nature of Daylight" is featured in the film's opening and closing scenes. Due to the prominent use of Richter's music, which had also featured in Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island, Jóhannsson's score was deemed ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the rationale being that voters would be influenced by the use of pre-existing music when judging the merits of the score.

Track listing:

1. Arrival - 2:51

2. Heptapod B - 3:42

3. Sapir-Whorf - 1:17

4. Hydraulic Lift - 3:32

5. First Encounter - 4:50

6. Transmutation At A Distance - 1:35

7. Around-The-Clock News - 1:35

8. Xenolinguistics - 3:29

9. Ultimatum - 1:52

10. Principle Of Least Time - 1:20

11. Hazmat - 4:48

12. Hammers And Nails - 2:32

13. Xenoanthropology - 3:08

14. Non-Zero-Sum Game - 4:18

15. Properties Of Explosive Material - 3:31

16. Escalation - 2:02

17. Decyphering - 2:05

18. One Of Twelve - 3:09

19. Rise - 1:47

20. Kangaroo - 2:56

Album credits:

Alto Vocals: Elenor Wiman, Ellen Marie Brink Christensen*, Kristin Mulders

Arranged By [Arrangements For Theatre Of Voices Recordings]: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Owen Roberts

Bass Vocals: Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Jakob Soelberg

Booklet Editor: Jens Schünemeyer

Cello, Halldorophone [Dórophone], Voice: Hildur Guðnadóttir

Choir: Theatre Of Voices

Concertmaster: Lucie Svehlova*

Conductor [The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra]: Anthony Weeden

Conductor [Theatre Of Voices]: Paul Hillier

Coordinator [Soundtrack Album Coordinator]: Jason Richmond

Engineer [Additional Sound Engineers]: Francesco Donadello, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson

Engineer [Assistant Engineers]: Michael Hradisky*, Vitek Kral*

Engineer [Recording Engineer]: Jan Holzner

Engineer [Sound Engineer For Theatre Of Voices Recordings]: Preben Iwan

Executive-Producer [Executive In Charge Of Music For Deutsche Grammophon]: Christian Badzura

Executive-Producer [Executive In Charge Of Music For Paramount Pictures]: Randy Spendlove

Executive-Producer [Executive Soundtrack Album Producers]: Aaron Ryder, Dan Levine, David Linde, Denis Villeneuve,

REQUIREMENTS

Stellaris

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