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[[Image:TSNcover.jpg|thumb|''The Social Network Soundtrack''<br>]][http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dthe%2520social%2520network%2520soundtrack%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 Find on Amazon] - [httpImage://rover.ebayTSNdefinitive.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0jpg|thumb|Definitive Vinyl/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=the+social+network+soundtrack&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg Find on eBay]Dolby Atmos artwork]]'''''The Social Network Soundtrack''''' , released on September 28, 2010, was scored by [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]] for the [[David Fincher]] film ''The Social Network'', based on the popular social networking site Facebook. It was the first release from [[The Null Corporation]] to be marked with a [[Halo Null numbers#Null Numbers|Null number]], being Null 01.
The score garnered many awards, most notably Best Original Score at both the 2011 Academy Awards and the 2010 Golden Globe Awards. This is the first [[Soundtracks|soundtrack ]] that Reznor and Ross have worked on together, followed by ''[[The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack]]'' and the ''[[Gone Girl Soundtrack]]'', also one of several for David Fincher.
==Tracklisting==
#"[[Hand Covers Bruise]]" - 4:18
#"[[In Motion]]" - 4:56
D5 "Soft Trees Break The Fall" - 4:44
===Download Sampler=Release==#The first track from the soundtrack, "Hand Covers Bruise (No Piano)"Pieces Form debuted on ''The Social Network'''s website on August 30, 2010, streaming in the background. The album was released by The Whole" - 4:25Null Corporation and distributed by Sony Music.#"Eventually We Find Our Way" - 4:17#"On We March" A 5- 4:track sampler for the album was released September 17#", on The Gentle Hum Of Anxiety" - 3:51#"Soft Trees Break The Fall" - 4:39Null Corporation's homepage.
==Trent Reznor's Statements==
It was announced that Reznor and Ross were taking part in the soundtrack on [[nin.com]] on July 1st, 2010:
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Speaking of the film... it's really fucking good. And dark!"
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Later, on the [http://www.nullco.com/TSN/|album's site], Reznor posted about the release:
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Musically, this all came out of our secret laboratory - electronic in basis, but mostly organic sounding. Lots of experiments and emphasis on sound fraying around the edges while focusing on the proper emotional tone for the various scenes.
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Regarding the purchase options, sorry about the "clunkiness" of not offering the full record digital download pre-sale (and having to visit Amazon). My agenda was to be able to offer this for the lowest possible price and this was the best way to achieve that. Amazon has been a great partner with past projects and I appreciate your understanding."
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- Trent Reznor, 9.16.10
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==ReleasePromotion & Samplers==On the album's official [http://www.facebook.com/TSNsoundtrack?v=wall&ref=mf Facebook page], <!-- Irony noted -->a promotion for the movie was created on September 22nd, offering fans the chance to [[Multitracks|remix]] "On We March" and "In Motion", to win a chance to meet Ross and Reznor in Los Angeles, along with a seat at the film's premiere. The winning entries were "In Motion (A Few Enemies Rmx V2)" by Estevancarlos [https://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-22010] and "On We March (Incept/Except)" by by jcworsley [https://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-22102]. Although they said they would try to find other opportunities for people's remixes down the road, nothing further was announced for them. [https://www.facebook.com/TSNsoundtrack/posts/156017844421221] ===Download Sampler===
[[Image:335.jpg|thumb|Sampler cover]]
#"Pieces Form The first track from the soundtrack, Whole"Hand Covers Bruise (No Piano)- 4:25#"Eventually We Find Our Way" - 4:17#"On We March" - 4:17#" debuted on ''The Social Network'''s website on August 30, 2010, streaming in the background. Gentle Hum Of Anxiety" - 3:51#"Soft Trees Break The album was released by The Null Corporation and distributed by Sony Music.Fall" - 4:39
===Award Sampler===[[Image:SocialNetworkFYC.jpg|thumb|For Your Consideration cover]]A 5-track sampler was released for consideration by awarding bodies. It contains the eligible music score as it appears in the film, which means that the songs are edited as compared to the full album was released September 17versions, and may contain slightly different elements or takes of the music. As is typical for film scores, the cue titles given are descriptive of the action on the screen. The Null Corporation's homepagecorresponding soundtrack song that the cue is derived from is provided in the tracklisting below. It contains one score cue which does not appear on the soundtrack release.
==Artwork==
The album's art is by [[Rob Sheridan]], based upon the designs used to promote the film, mixed with Sheridan's style of image distortion.[http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798132834][http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798241432][http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798316024][http://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/24798383840] The glitch art that was used for the sampler was originally intended for the proper cover, and was restored for the 2020 vinyl Definitive Edition.[https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1306299282228572165] Sheridan wrote on his website about the process of creating the artwork:
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For The Social Network soundtrack art, my goal was to walk the line between representing the film and creating something that stood as a piece of art on its own, much as the soundtrack itself does.
For the cover, I needed to represent the branding of the film, but neither Trent nor I wanted the photo of Jesse Eisenberg to be the cover as directly as it was in the film's poster. By blurring out the photo and placing the title text over Eisenberg's eyes, I was able to create a cover that evoked the film's branding while distancing itself from it at the same time. The style of fonts used in the film and its marketing were something Trent and I both really liked, so we preserved that for the soundtrack.
For the internal art, Sony gave me a batch of publicity stills from the film to utilize if I wanted. By their nature none of them were particularly artistic, and I wasn't sure how useful they'd be for the artwork. Trent expressed an interest in creating a package that could stand on its own whether or not listeners had seen the film. Given that we conceded a bit on the album cover, he said "let's make the inside packaging weird."
An early idea I had was to digitally corrupt the images we had from the film, combining a "glitch art" visual aesthetic I've always been interested in with a metaphor for digital images shared on Facebook, the corruption they're susceptible to, and the corruption portrayed in the film. This idea resonated with Trent, so I began experimenting with different ways to destroy the publicity stills Sony had sent me.
Whereas in previous projects (especially With Teeth and Year Zero) I'd used careful manual processes to create digital glitches, this time I actually destroyed images by opening them up in a text editor and adding/removing text to their raw code.
It was a very experimental, trial-and-error process - I tried different file types, different rendering methods (for example, damaged Photoshop files render much more interestingly in OSX's Preview than in Photoshop itself), and different types of text injected into the image files (I grabbed random paragraphs of text from around the web - ridiculous fan-fiction sites were a fun source). The results are what you see below - these images were distorted through manual editing of the image files in a text editor, not through intricate Photoshop work. [http://rob-sheridan.com/TSN/]
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*American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars): Music (Original Score)
==Live Performance==
[[Nine Inch Nails]] performed debuted "Hand Covers Bruise" live at the [[2014/02/25 Tokyo, Japan]] show. It was the first time a track from the soundtrack had been played live, and only the second score piece to be played by the band. The song was then performed a few more times on the 2014 tour.
==External Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/ IMDb Page]
*[http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/ Official film site]
*[http://www.facebook.com/TSNsoundtrack?v=wall&ref=mf Official Facebook page]
*[http://rob-sheridan.com/TSN/ Artwork by Rob Sheridan]
*[http://trashaudio.com/2010/11/the-music-and-sound-design-of-the-social-network/ Panel discussion on the audio]
*[http://nincatalog.com/trent-reznor-and-atticus-ross/ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross category at nincatalog.com]
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