Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood Scores New Film, Records New Album

Jonny Greenwood playing bowed guitar. Image by RossoGialloBianco

We’ll have some original, potentially Oscar-worthy music from Radiohead multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonny Greenwood to look forward to in 2013. Fans might remember the disappointment of Greenwood’s score for P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood being found ineligible for an Oscar nod in 2008 because of a minor technicality (it included a Brahms concerto and was therefore not completely original). Now Greenwood is back to work with Anderson, writing the music for his upcoming film The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Joaquin Phoenix.

Greenwood has also completed work on a collaborative album with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (one of his major influences), due to be released in the US on March 13. The album is organized like a conversation between the two composers’ works, with Greenwood’s strings-heavy “Popcorn Superhet Receiver” following in the footsteps of the piece that inspired it, Penderecki’s horrifying sound mass composition, “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.”

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