the musical score to "fruitvale station" was composed by ludwig göransson. also a usc graduate, göransson said of the scoring process: "ryan and i talked a lot about how sound design was going to have a huge role in the movie and very early on i got sent the actual sound recordings of the bart [sic] train. i manipulated the train sound and made it almost feel like a dark ambient synth sound and i used it almost throughout the whole bart platform scene. the other element in the score is lots of layered and manipulated guitars sounding almost like haunting pads." coogler added: "one thing that we always wanted to be conscious of with the score, was to make sure that it always felt organic. a lot of the film would play without score, so ludwig made sure that whenever we brought score in came out of sounds in the environment." a soundtrack album, fruitvale station: original motion picture soundtrack, was released digitally on september 24, 2013 and on cd october 15, 2013 through lakeshore records.