“Go to Coachella and talk to the audience, it’s not that much different to the prissiest Prom!”If you enjoy The Quietus, please consider supporting what we do with a one-off or regular donation. He regards French composer Oliver Messiaen as the greatest of all time – “one of the few composers when you can hear just a few chords in isolation and know it’s him” – and his longstanding love of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose ‘Threnody To The Victims Of Hiroshima’ directly inspired Greenwood’s award-winning ‘Popcorn Superhet Receiver’ (which subsequently formed part of his ‘There Will Be Blood’ score) in 2005, and with whom he would later collaborate with, is well known. It’s a twee comment and a bit skin-crawly, but I can see what they mean. “I should start learning to edit myself…” he suddenly says while expanding on the parallels between Bach and Kraftwerk. “Every time we’ve done a show, I’ve thought about what a shame it is that this stuff isn’t being recorded,” he says. “The distortion comes in so slowly that at first you think there’s something wrong with your speakers, and over the course of a few minutes it just overtakes.”Together these two releases reflect a loose concept behind Octatonic, to essentially skip out the 19th century. I made a record in India a couple of years ago, and it was seeing those musicians that made me feel differently about Western classical musicians. “There’s so much crossover now,” he says.
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He spent his teenage years in County Youth Orchestras, “bluffing my way through at the back,” and was “a serious recorder player” until the age of 18. “I mean, I hope it gets nominated,” Yorke recently told Yorke isn’t the first Radiohead band member to find himself in Oscar contention.
One is Daniel Pioro, widely acclaimed as one of the best violinists of his generation, playing Bach’s Partita No. Listening to Bach has the same feeling as when you’re listening to Kraftwerk and you think ‘electronic music doesn’t get better than this’.”So is Bach the classical Kraftwerk?
I realised that they’re the same thing. “He’ll come to things a lot of the time because he wants to try an experiment sonically or musically, and he finds that it fits with whatever he’s working on anyway.
The idea of having distorted guitars playing these portentious classical music chords. There are lots of parallels if you want to look for them.”The old adage is that you get into classical music as you get older, but it’s always been a part of Greenwood’s musical upbringing. All rights reserved. JUNUN Q&A with Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express | TIFF 2018. We’re taking it for granted, but what violists do in this country, it just floors me, really.”Speaking to Greenwood, you sense that working with the London Contemporary Orchestra has been immensely rewarding, and the source of the boundless passion that underpins the Octatonic project. YouTube ∙ 2020. “It’s true isn’t it, that you’re meant to hit middle age and suddenly ‘discover’ classical music, but I’m not sure that’s true anymore,” he says. “I don’t think there’s anything pretentious or awkward about that statement, although I’m sweating now that I’ve said it,” he laughs. Growing up, whenever there was any crossover between the two worlds it seemed that there was either a fascination with the really bombastic Rachmaninoff stuff, or the flowery romantic classical music played on synthesisers; the prog rock thing, I guess. “I’ve become friends with lots of players, and I wanted to document them playing this great music.”The first two releases on Octatonic feel like something of a mission statement – “the two extremes of what we’re hoping to do,” as Greenwood puts it. “Although it does make it difficult for [the rest of Radiohead] when I come back to them. 369+ views. His passion for classical musicians, particularly those who are young and progressive, is infectious.“When I stay in London, I’m sometimes near Abbey Road and I’ll often see jobbing string musicians on their way to sessions. The next Octatonic release is likely to be a recording of work by another hero, Steve Reich.Modern classical music is an exciting world, but it is Greenwood’s approach to Bach and the baroque that is the more interesting half of Octatonic’s philosophy.
The influence of classical music has always “seemed normal,” he says. These are all ideas that have been around since then and people are still doing the same thing because they work.
Wow, it makes your stomach turn really. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus.Read the choicest cuts from the Quietus archive: reviews, features and opinion I guess there’s [Isao] Tomita doing his synth versions of popular classical music, some of those are pretty wild, but otherwise it’s a sorry history of prog rock.”Octatonic’s expeditions into 20th century music make sense.
Since 2003’s score for the documentary Greenwood has spent much of the last few years putting on small concerts with The London Contemporary Orchestra, whose focus is on the development and promotion of young and innovative players and composers. 30,854+ views. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. But when it comes to Octatonic, and the goals he’s attached to it, he’s nothing but forthcoming. “What’s amazing about lots of early baroque music is that it’s very strange and contemporary sounding to me. Year-on-year, our corporate advertising is down by around 90% - a figure that threatens to sink The Quietus. Bachwerk: An Interview With Jonny Greenwood Patrick Clarke , September 25th, 2019 10:22 As he launches a new label dedicated to contemporary classical music, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead talks to Patrick Clarke about his passion for classical, why Bach is like Kraftwerk, and the 'gruesome' intersection of prog rock and Rachmaninoff.
So I was doing a lot of that, just fucking around using modular gear and using my voice in ways I wouldn’t normally do that I’d wanted to try for ages.”Yorke’s “Suspirium” is facing off against Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s “Shallow,” Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “All the Stars,” and a pair of tracks from “Marry Poppins Returns” on the Oscar shortlist, among other songs. 7,021+ views.
I was all worked up into feeling amazed to hear how these Sarangi players had played since they were children and dedicated their lives to music, but I realised that that’s also true of a violinist. I don’t know why, but I just have this aversion to 19th century music,” Greenwood explains.
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