Finneas O’Connell, who won an Oscar for his work on James Bond song “No Time To Die,” is best known for producing songs such as sister Billie Eilish’s Grammy-winning “Bad Guy.”

The musician is also responsible for scoring the second season of Netflix’s Beef, and he closed out Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television awards-season event with a beautiful-but-violent performance of some of the drama’s main themes.

O’Connell revealed that one of his tricks was finding synths that sounded like a “swarm of bees.”

“I live in L.A. near a golf course. You walk by and you hear all of this kind of rhythm in nature. You hear the sprinkler system going and I wanted that to be part of the stressful tempo of the show,” he said. “Then I found these synth patches that, if I turned the envelopes and changed the cutoffs, and then I took the like little pitch-bend thing on the Nord and wobbled it, it really sounded like bees, and it just really stressed me out to play. I was like, well, if it stresses me out, it’ll probably stress everybody out.”

The second season of Beef, much like the first season, is plenty stressful.

Season 2, which premiered last month, begins when a Gen-Z couple witnesses an alarming fight between their Millennial boss and his wife. Newly engaged Ashley Miller (played by Cailee Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Charles Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their general manager Joshua Martín (Oscar Isaac) and his wife Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan).

O’Connell’s score co-exists with a number of nostalgic needle drops from bands including LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip and M83 as well as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with the latter’s “Heads Will Roll” song playing out the end of episode 2.

“The song choices were so clear, and as we were talking about these characters, the thing that I really wanted to convey was this idea of your place in the world and the world’s perception of you and your relationship with the people around you and your love life, and grappling with your own insecurities,” he added.

One of O’Connell’s standout moments is a song called “Vicious Thoughts,” which starts out as a melodic piano piece before getting pretty violent on the synth.

“I just started writing things that felt like they would reflect what I felt the characters were going through while I was reading the scripts and visiting set,” he said. “’Vicious Thoughts’ was this melody that felt like this very pure, optimistic, slightly sentimental thing, hopefully. Then I just wanted it to become this cacophonous, violent sound with the same melody that you’d been introduced to.”

O’Connell, who pulled double duty on Sound & Screen night by appearing beforehand on the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of Eilish’s James Cameron-directed concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live In 3D), enjoys composing music for TV and film after making his debut with Apple TV’s Disclaimer before doing Beef.

He revealed that he and his friend learned the House of Cards theme on piano when he was 15.

“It’s certainly a world that I’m an enthusiastic audience member of. I just am such a fan of film and television,” he said.

Check back Monday for the panel video.