A House of Dynamite dramatizes the government response to a missile from unknown origin heading towards a U.S. city within 20 minutes. Director Kathryn Bigelow personally asked Volker Bertelmann to compose the score, and he worked with the musicians at George Martin’s AIR Studios to come up with an evocative sound with flutes and other woodwinds.

“I asked them to sing in the instrument and hum while they were playing to get this kind of moaning,” Bertelmann said at Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Film event. “I had the feeling there are creatures somehow under the Earth who are moaning in a way, crying silently about what’s happening on Earth. I was trying to figure out how I could achieve that with woodwinds.”

The AIR staff impressed Bertelmann so much he took some of their equipment hom

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