Netflix has announced that the music for its upcoming anime series ‘Exception’ will be composed by the Grammy and Academy Award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto.
On the collaboration, the composer said: “I’ve always liked science fiction and when I read the script, it made me want to see it visualized so I decided to participate. (Thoughts about the series:) We live in a time when cloning and other gene manipulation technology is advanced but the questions that arise here are, ‘What is life?’ or ‘What is humanity’?
“This work deals with these kinds of questions head on. I wanted to make the main theme song be a symphonic piece—the kind that has become a staple for sci-fi since Star Wars.
“I made the soundtrack as a whole be darkly ambient and worked towards making the entire soundtrack feel like one piece of music rather than separate by scene. That said, I did include a degree of harsh sounds in the fighting scenes. I was able to make a soundtrack that I like very much.”
The official synopsis by Netflix for Exception reads:
“In the far future, humanity has been driven from Earth and forced to move its population to another galaxy. Members of a scouting team are sent to search for a planet suitable for terraforming.
“The crew was created through a biological 3D printer, but a system malfunction causes one of the crew members, Lewis, to emerge in a deformed state. As Lewis turns on his fellow crew members Nina, Mack, Patty and Oscar, a countdown to the end of the mission begins in the frightening darkness of the ship.”
The anime is based on an original story by Hirotaka Adachi, while Yoshitaka Amano is responsible for the character designs.
‘Exception’ debuts worldwide on October 13.
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