MovieScore Media released a soundtrack album for the 2025 documentary film THE PEACE PARTICLE. Directed by Alex Kiehl, produced by Featuristic Films and Telesgop (UK), follows the most consequential experiment in the history of humanity at CERN, that opened a Pandora’s box of new discoveries and unexpected problems.
“It was vital to me that we approached this story as a human one inspired by science and not the other way round. The themes of peace, co-operation and mutual benefit feel increasingly important in our world today. The score needed to have heart and beauty to compliment the more industrial and scientific elements so a blend of orchestra, analogue synths and homemade, mechanical percussion felt right from the very beginning of writing. There are also darker moments in the film and I became interested in the half life of an atom and how that might sound – I was creating music for these moments that sounded like it was slowly decaying until it ultimately comes to a stop.” – Sam Thompson.
ABOUT SAM THOMPSON
Sam Thompson is an Emmy-nominated film composer from Preston, Lancashire, UK. Best known for his scores for the BAFTA-winning comedy drama Juice, Emmy-nominated JFK: One Day in America, and his collaborative scores with Amelia Warner including the feature dramas Mr Malcolm’s List and Young Woman and the Sea, Sam is a sensitive and collaborative composer, specialising in contemporary orchestral, vocal composition and electronic scores. In television, Sam has grown an impressive list of credits including the TV-movie Plebs: Soldiers of Rome for ITV and the Netflix smash-hit Sex Education, for which Sam wrote additional music cues alongside Oli Julian. In feature films, Sam has scored Rise Films’ Mayor exemplifying his sensitivity to picture in a spine-tingling vocal-only score. He recently co-scored The Balloonists, also for Rise Films, alongside Nick Foster which is scheduled for cinema release in May this year. As part of Sam’s long-term collaboration with the composer Amelia Warner, Sam has co-scored Irish drama Kathleen Is Here directed by Eva Birthistle and Unidentified directed by Haifaa al-Mansour. Sam has orchestrated and conducted for large ensemble recordings including the scores for David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet II, PlayStation’s Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Sam has also provided additional orchestrations for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ scores for Wind River, Kings and Mars. He has also written and conducted arrangements for artists such as The XX, Ellie Goulding, Lady Leshurr and Sophie Ellis Bextor, as well as conducting The Heritage Orchestra and Anna Calvi at the Burberry Fashion Show. As a commercial artist, Sam released his debut EP As Now the Light Retreats in 2021, and was asked to contribute to Deutsche Grammophon’s ‘Summer Tales’ compilation with a reworking of Pavane in 2022. Sam’s debut album ‘Roots’ is due for release in 2026 and he has recently produced Amelia Warner’s album ‘Halcyon’.
TRACKLIST
- Peace Particle
- The Hadron Collider
- Building Cern
- Geneva
- Switch On
- Macro to Micro
- I Love Music
- Existential Laws
- Control Room
- The Iron Curtain
- Nuclear Chain Reaction
- I Made the Plans
- Sanctioning the Russians
- Science for Peace vs. the Atomic Bomb
