In one of the more surprising news stories to emerge this week, BMW has announced a collaboration with acclaimed composer Hans Zimmer that will see the Academy Award-winner create engine sounds for some of BMW’s future electrified vehicles.
More specifically, BMW says that it has enlisted the help of Hans Zimmer to create a more “emotionally engaging driving sound” for its performance-focussed electrified M models of the future.
With the future looking increasingly more electrified with every passing day, manufacturers are beginning to get experimental with acoustics and replacing the typically silent driving experience of an electric vehicle with something more dynamic.
Hans Zimmer to compose driving sounds for electrified BMW M models
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BMW’s collaboration with Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer will extend beyond BMW i products. Today, BMW M announced that Hans Zimmer and Renzo Vitale, Creative Director Sound at the BMW Group produced a distinctive driving sound specially for electric M cars. “Every BMW has its own character, which is reflected in the sound it makes,” says film music creator and Academy Award winner Zimmer. “So for the electrically driven BMW M models we have developed a driving sound which accentuates their emotional driving experience particularly vividly and ensures their performance can be felt with even greater intensity.”
BMW partners up with Hans Zimmer to develop unique drive sounds for upcoming electrified M models
11 May 2021 11:44 am / 2 comments
BMW is aware that while electric vehicles offer a high level of comfort by being relatively silent, the driving experience does lose a certain degree of emotionality. To provide a rich aural experience to drivers behind the wheel, there’s the BMW IconicSounds Electric, which is a sound portfolio for BMW models powered by a fully electric or plug-in hybrid drive system.
Developed in collaboration with award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, the person behind scores for films like
The Lion King,
Dunkirk and the