It was designing many sounds using outboard gear, sort of taking things out of the computer, doing it with modular synths, and just having a blast creating these textural things that played with music. We had Daniel Pemberton’s excellent score, and for the whole episode, we were making sounds harmonized with what he was doing tonally.
That’s one of those happy accidents where that squeak comes from that moment on set and there’s a natural progression to how that windshield chill wiper sounded based on the amount of snowfall that was hitting the windshield. So when the windshield was initially dry, it was grating, and then as the snowfall continued, it slowly changed over time until it became basically like a whisper.
