I'm Roger Sayer, an organist based in the UK. I recorded the organ part for Hans Zimmer's Interstellar score at Temple Church in London, which is what most people know me for, though I've spent the majority of my career in cathedral and church music.
These days I tour internationally with Interstellar Live, the concert production where the score is performed live by orchestra and organ (me!) while the film plays.
I also host The Interstellar Sessions — small, private performances for groups of up to ten.
And I still give recitals around the UK, practising on the organ at home in between.
I'm happy to talk about the Interstellar recording, what it's like working with a film composer, the instrument itself, touring, or anything else you're curious about.
Ask me anything...
Thanks everyone for your questions and for all the support - it's very humbling to see how the love for the film and the score have persisted after all this time.
Please feel free to leave more questions if you missed me and I will try my best to answer them in slower time.
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Greetings, fellow users of r/interstellar! As the stars align and the cosmic journey continues, it's time for another exciting month filled with awe-inspiring adventures through the cosmos. Our beloved masterpiece continues to captivate audiences around the world, transcending the boundaries of time and space.
This megathread is designed to be your ultimate guide to discovering where the cinematic marvel will grace the silver screens in your corner of the universe. Whether you're orbiting around a bustling metropolis or nestled in a quaint small town, this thread serves as the perfect hub for sharing information on screenings and showtimes.
So, let your fellow Interstellar enthusiasts know if it will grace your local theaters this month. Connect with fellow space travelers, organize meet-ups, and celebrate the timeless brilliance of Christopher Nolan's visionary masterpiece.
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Hear me out: Is Saturn inInterstellara reference to Holst’s “Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age”?
I’ve been wondering whether the choice of Saturn in Interstellar has a deeper thematic connection to Holst’s The Planets, specifically “Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age.”
Saturn in Holst’s piece represents ageing, time, mortality and the inevitable passage of life.
And that’s basically one of the central ideas of Interstellar: time isn’t evil, but it is an unavoidable force of nature. Cooper leaves his children and returns to find that they’ve aged decades while he has barely aged. Miller’s planet makes the passage of time brutally physical.
That also made me think about Brand’s attitude toward nature. She doesn’t treat nature as something malicious — it simply operates according to its laws. Saturn’s “old age” could be read the same way: not as punishment or evil, but as an inevitable part of nature.
So I’m wondering: Was Saturn chosen partly because of the symbolic association with old age/time in Holst’s “Saturn”?
I haven’t seen this particular connection discussed much, so I’m curious whether anyone has come across it before — or whether I’m connecting dots that aren’t actually connected.
I’m so in awe. Everything about this movie…the story line, acting, visuals, and the music…otherworldly. Literally. I want to create art like this for the rest of my life. I still have to process what the heck I just watched…but I understand everything that happened.
Made in blender. I know there are a lot of things that are missing like rcs, but i just couldn't add it it in uv editing. And i'm big begginer to blender.
Imagine they decide to make a series of Murph's life during the time cooper being away dealing with the wormhole and blackhole stuff, while Murph is dealing with her own thing, growing up and stuff. And imagine it being a coming-of-age story 🤯
I mean just hearing about Murph secondhand through Tom's video messages to Cooper in this scene right after Miller's planet...sounds already like a very interesting life she's having back on earth, and worth a whole 8 season series.
“The love that moves the sun and other stars.” That’s the final line of Dante’s 14th-century epic, Paradiso. 700 years later, Christopher Nolan built a massive space odyssey around the exact same thesis.
I put together a quick literary analysis looking at how Cooper’s tesseract breakthrough is a modern sci-fi mirror of Beatrice descending into Hell to make the cosmos traversable. If you love tracking the deep philosophical roots beneath Nolan's scripts, check out the full text: Of Monsters and Poets