The Sounds of Ghorman

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Go behind the scenes of the creation of the Ghorman soundscape, one of Season 2’s most important locations complete with its own language and unique anthem.

By Amy Richau

Sound design is all about the focus. Who you’re with in a scene. The location. The actions. The emotions.

While Ghorman has been mentioned in previous Star Wars stories, including Andor’s first season and the Star Wars Rebels episode “Secret Cargo,” Andor Season 2 marks the world’s live-action debut. First seen (and heard) in Andor’s travelogue newsreel, series creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy led the creative team on the immersive building that would lead to a massacre in a city plaza, with composer Brandon Roberts and sound designers David Acord and Margit Pfeiffer joining forces to bring the sounds of the planet to the screen.

Ghorman is of great interest to the Empire…

We got our first glimpse of Ghorman in the Season 2 premiere “One Year Later,” when Director Orson Krennic played a short film about the planet’s textile manufacturing to a room full of ISB operatives. Roberts’ score for the short leaned into the idea of it as a tourism propaganda film and helped him establish the Ghor music with a “colorful, waltzy 3/4 Straussian feel.”…

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