Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare II Season 3
(Digital)

The Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II Season 03 Original Soundtrack with music by Nainita Desai is available. The 7-track album is available since June 9, 2023.

The Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II Season 03 Original Soundtrack with music by Nainita Desai is available.
The 7-track album is available since June 9, 2023.

Inspired by the Mexican location, Nainita wanted to bring in sounds inspired by the region but not use traditional instruments from Mexico which would be too light in tone for this score.

Much of the score theme uses the Halldorophone, a hybrid electro-acoustic bowed string instrument that works with sympathetic drone strings and feedback. Each string has a dedicated pickup and it produces a cello type sound which has a unique sound.

It’s a far from traditional orchestral score, so to make it distinctive, she pulled back on some of the very treated organic sounds, so you hear the rawness of the instruments with a bit more clarity.

Nainita wanted to get more emotion into the music and therefore hear more of the acoustic melodic elements in a purer way as opposed to making it sound so very electronic.
In addition, she created action and tension suites with lots of gravitas to portray the high stakes of the game, leaning heavily on the contrast between distressed sounds and clear organic elements.
“I also brought in the LCO (London Contemporary Orchestra). Their aesthetic of experimentation is something that really suited the process of this project. We had 8 string players with an emphasis on the mid-lower end of the sonic spectrum to create a really dark sound.
Though all the ideas were pre-written before the sessions, we also allowed for some magic to happen where we recorded the main takes and then improvised in the studio utilizing extended string techniques, where we achieved a very gritty dry edgy sound.”


About Call of Duty:

Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Season 03
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II and Call of Duty®: Warzone™ 2.0 continue Season 03 with a Reloaded midseason update, packed with much-anticipated new experiences such as the debut of Warzone™ 2.0 Ranked Play, the return of a classic tactical Multiplayer mode in Faceoff, and another high-stakes exclusion zone for DMZ hidden somewhere in Al Mazrah.

About Nainita Desai

Emmy and RTS award winning composer, Nainita Desai, was World Soundtrack Awards 2021 winner for Discovery of the Year. A double BIFA and Cinema Eye Honors nominee; BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the year 2019, Nainita was described by Empire magazine as one of the top 5 composers to watch for 2022 and won the Women In Film & TV Award for Creative Technology 2022. She has recently garnered MPSE Golden Reel, ASCAP, SCL, GANG, and Develop nominations for her score for acclaimed video game Immortality.

Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent projects include the Netflix hit documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, exec produced by Oscar winner Jimmy Chinn, for which her score earned Primetime Emmy, HMMA and ASCAP Composer Choice nominations.
Desai’s other credits include Oscar 2020 nominated and BAFTA & Cannes winning feature doc For Sama, and Sundance winning The Reason I Jump, an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity. Recent projects include BBC1 action thriller series Crossfire, Bafta nominated American Murder, ITV crime drama series The Tower (Mammoth Screen, Gemma Whelan), land mark natural history series Predators for Sky/Netflix and Interactive film / video game Telling Lies, (Annapurna Interactive).
Current shows include SKY comedy drama series Funny Woman (Gemma Arterton), a major fantasy adventure series for Disney+, landmark natural history series Earthsounds for Apple TV+, as well as projects with James Cameron / Nat Geo, a video games for EA Originals and the iconic Call of Duty video game franchise for Activision.

About Spiderfarm Productions
Spider Farm Productions is a team of veteran music and game industry professionals specializing in video game score design, production and implementation.

More info at: Official Web Site Activision Publishing

More info at: Composer Nainita Desai Official Site