Requiem for a Dream | Lux Aeterna | Clint Mansell

Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream, composed by Clint Mansell, builts on a repetitive, driving string motif. Starting with a pulse from the Celli and Double-basses, the music conveys a growing sense of desperation, tension, and tragedy. The minimalist orchestration, with its relentless rhythm and swelling dynamics, creates a feeling of inevitability, perfectly mirroring the film’s dark spiral into addiction and despair. The stark, pulsating strings and brass build in intensity, evoking both grandeur and hopelessness, as the piece crescendos into a heart-wrenching climax.

Duration: 5.30

Instrumentation: 0,0,0,0 – 0,0,0,0 – timp, 4perc – synth – strings