ROSALíA
“It was an absolute privilege to work with Catalan superstar Rosalía on this spot for Nike. I’m a big fan of her work. We recorded her improvised vocal in a little studio in Barcelona along with an authentic 20-piece Catalan drum ensemble in one afternoon.
This dynamic, breath-taking spot was directed by Wally Pfister – the acclaimed cinematographer of many of Christopher Nolan’s movies including The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and The Prestige.
Most commercial scores have a handful of sync-points (points where the music and images have their strongest interplay). This film has more than a thousand – it has a constantly shifting grid of images as its central visual device and every one of these tiny fluctuations had to be mirrored with the music. But this is just the kind of challenge that makes my job so much fun.”