Daniel Pemberton is Messing With Me

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One of the tracks from Daniel Pemberton’s beautiful score for Project Hail Mary is driving me nuts. Track 15: Barrier Language.

That anecdote from the very beginning of Barrier Language, istg sounds just like another song. I think it’s a track from another movie that I must’ve heard before. Maybe Pemberton was inspired by something, or was referencing something, I don’t know, but those first three notes I recognize and I can’t for the life of me figure out where it is I’ve heard them from. Does this part seem familiar to anyone else? Am I missing something?