David Julyan is a British film composer who collaborated with Christopher Nolan on his first three features — 'Following', 'Memento', and 'Insomnia' — before Nolan moved to Hans Zimmer.
Julyan's synthetic, minimalist scores established the sonic texture of Nolan's early period — tense, pulsing, industrial rather than melodic — creating the acoustic grammar of psychological dread that Zimmer later expanded at blockbuster scale.
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