Dune - Complete Score - Sardaukar Chant - Hans Zimmer

Idea by: Hans Zimmer
Music Composed and Arranged by: Hans Zimmer & Andrew Kawczynski
Vocal: Michael Geiger

Hans Zimmer: It's only one voice. It's a chap called Michael, fantastic singer. We had a language written out by linguist. It's just about technology. If you use a compressor, if you overuse it, it feels like you're slamming your head against the door frame. You take a while to recover. So the compressor takes a while to recover, you know, when you slam Michael's voice into it. So by taking each syllable apart and stretching it out and leaving gaps, I could then go and slam syllable and make every syllable sound incredibly dangerous and violent. I had of course completly transformed his voice into something that was more like a cannon ball heading you in the head. And I played it to Dennise Morrison experiment. And Denise reaction was: ''Oh, could be an interesting way to start to movie''.

Vocalist Michael Geiger talking about Sardaukar Chants.
“Just my opinion as a voice actor, but you might think of the (Sardaukar) throat singing sounds in Dune 2021 not as "language" but as an encoded military battle chant; a specific series of syllables with the consonants purposefully removed to render the remaining vowel sounds discernible only to the Sardaukar. The result of millennia of phonemic abbreviations meant to obfuscate a hidden message. Other examples of this might be huddle or line audibles from a football quarterback or a drill sergeant counting out a marching cadence. It sounds incomprehensible because it's meant to.”

- Dune - Complete Score - Sardaukar Chant - Hans Zimmer

[jeromeb]

Friend: “it’s on the back of the router.”

The back of the router:

[panyvino]

"girls have a higher voice when they talk to the guy they like"
Girls when they talk to me:

[phil]

“Say the words, and I’m yours”

buorigirmmburhiorimmm”

[viktornagy]

I always get goosebumps at the "hambariurumehmberigurum" part

[RealSquidShady]

LoFi Chants to Study/Serve the Padishah Emperor to

[animanera]

It amazes me how that scene created its own fanbase to the point of reading/hearing "there isn't enough throat singing in this movie!" lol

[smelter_felter-]

"Dreams are a message from the deep."

[vynxie]

Those Sardaukar are so smart, reading doctor's handwriting out loud for us perfectly.

[ndenz]

From Dune Messiah:

_"Stilgar, " Paul said, "you urgently need a sense of balance which can come only from an understanding of long-term effects. What little information we have about the old times, the pittance of data which the Butlerians left us, Korba has brought it for you. Start with the Genghis Khan."_

_"Ghengis... Khan? Was he of the Sardaukar, m'Lord?"_

Whoever had the idea for Sardaukar throat singing did his research.

[blyatman]

I'm gonna make this my ringtone for whenever my boss calls me. It's menacing and incomprehensible, just like he is.

[ammanbansal]

2021: Dreams are messages from the deep.

2024: Power over spice is power over all.

[mrk]

Never has the phrase 'HUMM BOODLE BOING BIMM HMMM' seemed so inspiring.

[Joshua]

Because of the Sardaukar chant I'm now trying to learn how to throat sing.

[dvorak]

dude the last "HEM HEMMM" always catches me off guard

[MsTenseiga]

I saw the hans zimmer concert in march 2022 in hamburg… and hans fckn zimmer deadass stood on stage and performed this himself

[JobKiriaku]

The first 12 seconds always gives me chills. Even in the Sardaukar scene it was eerie.

[mrwortharead]

0:20 onwards just feels so alien the way it jumps about in pitch in a way that doesn’t seem naturally possible. I love it.

[AlwaysFeelingSleepy]

When you're drunk, trying to explain yourself.

[Dmg]

"we are no longer the knights who say nee"...

[dhuh]

0.75 speed is the voice I'd expect a lovecraftian god to have.