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Wilding

Hopkins Jon & Hilmars Biggi

Wilding

Label: Domino

Genre: Soundtrack

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In 2023, Jon Hopkins teamed up with Icelandic composer Biggi Hilmars to score Wilding, the acclaimed documentary charting an ambitious environmental experiment at the Knepp Estate in south-east England. The film follows Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell as they dismantle centuries of intensive farming, remove fences and allow the land to recover under the guidance of natural processes and a diverse mix of animals.

Their radical approach has since become one of Europe’s most significant rewilding projects, restoring biodiversity to a landscape once pushed to the brink by over-farming. Hopkins and Hilmars respond with a score that feels deeply embedded in this transformation. Built from organic textures, piano, strings and subtle vocals, the music moves with the land itself, echoing growth, stillness and renewal.

Rather than dominating the narrative, the soundtrack breathes alongside it, translating the pulse of the natural world into a gently evolving, immersive work that reinforces the film’s sense of patience, trust and long-term change.