2000 Meters to Andriivka (OST) - Music By Sam Slater

The documentary film, from Oscar winning filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist, Mstyslav Chernov, integrates frontline documentary footage from Ukraine with immersive spatial sound design. Quiet yet powerfully affecting, the piece foregrounds listening as a means of bearing witness; an approach emblematic of Slater’s interest in the consonance of sound and story.

Slater says of the music, “The score for Mstylsav Chernov's new documentary 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA demanded an energy-driven score — blunt, visceral, and aligned with its predominantly first-person perspective. Built around a dry funereal drum feeding back into itself, the score is volatile and relentless. Jakob Vasak’s snarling Kobophon and Kai Whitson’s spectral walkie-talkie textures hover anxiously above it. Voices and strings emerge warped and restless until the closing Mysteria ritual, where Hildur Guðnadóttir, Simon Goff, and Maria W Horn briefly resolve into mournful harmony, grounding us in grief as fallen soldiers’ names are summoned into the air.”