Music
Who scored Fruitvale Station?
Fruitvale Station
The musical score to "Fruitvale Station" was composed by Ludwig Göransson. Also a USC graduate, Göransson said of the scoring process: "Ryan and I talked a lot about how sound design was going to have a huge role in the movie and very early on I got sent the actual sound recordings of the Bart Train. I manipulated the train sound and made it almost feel like a dark ambient synth sound and I used it almost throughout the whole Bart platform scene. The other element in the score is lots of layered and manipulated guitars sounding almost like haunting pads." Coogler added: "One thing that we always wanted to be conscious of with the score, was to make sure that it always felt organic. A lot of the film would play without score, so Ludwig made sure that whenever we brought score in came out of sounds in the environment." A soundtrack album, "Fruitvale Station – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", was be released digitally on September 24, 2013 and on CD October 15, 2013 through Lakeshore Records.