Composer Ludwig Göransson reunited with Christopher Nolan to compose “The Odyssey,” marking their third collaboration after “Tenet” and “Oppenheimer.”

Earlier this year, Göransson’s work on “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” showcased his use of heavy synths and guitar-based orchestrations. However, for “The Odyssey,” Göransson ventures into new territory.

Nolan instructed Göransson not to use an orchestra in the score. Göransson previously told Time magazine: “It’s not that the orchestra existed back then… It was a challenge and also an opportunity to try to do something unique.”

In a featurette accompanying the film, Nolan explained: “We wanted the film to feel like a recognizable world to people, even if it was ancient Greece. We don’t want it to look or feel like previous films that deal with this kind of classical world. What can we do that’s more timeless than that?”

Göransson was forced to step out of his comfort zone and work with sounds he had never worked with before.

With the film set in the Bronze Age, Nolan suggested to Göransson to use bronze as a thematic element. Göransson rented 35 bronze gongs of different sizes and experimented with them. “Hit walls, railings, anything you can find outside, like scrap metal or air conditioning units,” he says. He also used a lyre and an aulos.

The score also includes vocals which, according to Göransson, “add some of the more emotional rhythm of the score.”

The original song, “When I’m Home,” written by James Blake, Travis Scott, Göransson and Nolan is also on the film’s soundtrack.

Nolan’s film brings Homer’s classic tale to life. Damon plays the titular sailor hero. The film also stars Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Odysseus’s wife; Tom Holland as his son, Telemachus; Pattinson as Antinous, Ithaca’s suitor; Zendaya as goddess of wisdom, Athena; and Charlize Theron as the goddess of witchcraft, Circe. The huge cast also includes Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Will Yun Lee, Mia Goth, Jimmy Gonzales and Elliot Page.

“The Odyssey” is Nolan’s thirteenth feature film as a director. He wrote the script based on the ancient poem and produced it with Emma Thomas under their production company Syncopy. Universal Pictures is distributing the film.

Listen to the soundtrack below.