{"id":50099,"date":"2024-11-23T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9f0a0186-3a96-4e73-b0ca-8e44fa18b0b2"},"modified":"2024-11-23T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:10:46","slug":"jonny-greenwood-from-radiohead-to-some-of-cinemas-most-unsettling-scores","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/jonny-greenwood-from-radiohead-to-some-of-cinemas-most-unsettling-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Greenwood: from Radiohead to some of cinema&#8217;s most unsettling scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 23 November 2024 at 10:02 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p>Jonny Greenwood might be best known as the lead guitarist in British band Radiohead, but in recent years he&#8217;s made quite the splash in the film music world, composing some of the best movie scores \u2013 with Academy Award and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/winners-golden-globes-best-original-score-all-winning-nominated-soundtracks-from-history\"><strong>Golden Globe<\/strong><\/a> nominations to his name.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-did-jonny-greenwood-start-composing\">When did Jonny Greenwood start composing?<\/h2> <p>Despite having leapt into the public consciousness through his involvement with the band Radiohead, an early solo departure \u2013 the documentary score, <em>Bodysong<\/em>, in 2003 \u2013 lead Jonny Greenwood to receive his first orchestral commission.<\/p> <p>2004\u2019s <em>Smear<\/em> was premiered by the London Sinfonietta and in the same year Greenwood was announced as Composer in Residence with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/bbc-concert-orchestra\">BBC Concert Orchestra<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jonny Greenwood - Smear\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XJ37gYu5tKg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>His first commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, <em>Popcorn Superhet Receiver<\/em>, would play a role in his first full film score in 2007. Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s <em>There Will Be Blood <\/em>is an Oscar-nominated masterpiece \u2013 though Greenwood\u2019s visceral score was ineligible thanks to the use of that earlier piece. He was, however, nominated for his first BAFTA and won both a Critics Choice award and a London Evening Standard award.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A master of unsettling soundscapes<\/h2> <p>The second Jonny Greenwood score, for Anh Hung Tran\u2019s film <em>Norwegian Wood <\/em>(2010) would see the composer utilise another existing work, this time <em>Doghouse <\/em>(composed the same year). Music from that score would go on to be performed at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/bbc-proms\/best-proms\">BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> <p>Greenwood would compose the score to yet another critically acclaimed film in 2011. <em>We Need To Talk About Kevin<\/em>, Lynne Ramsey\u2019s uncompromising 2011 family drama, saw the composer create an unsettling soundscape.<\/p> <p>The following year Greenwood reunited with Paul Thomas Anderson for <em>The Master<\/em>, which cemented their creative partnership. They followed it with <em>Inherent Vice <\/em>in 2016 and <em>Phantom Thread <\/em>in 2017. It was <em>Phantom Thread <\/em>which really threw Greenwood into the upper echelons of the film composing landscape, winning him nominations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/tv-and-film-music\/all-the-oscar-winners-and-nominees-for-best-original-score\"><strong>Oscar<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/winners-of-bafta-for-best-original-score-all-the-winning-and-nominated-soundtracks-from-history\"><strong>BAFTA<\/strong><\/a> and Golden Globe for Best Original Score.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-landscape_thumbnail\">  <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Maya Rudolph, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jonny Greenwood and his wife Sharona Katan attend the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <p>2017 also saw him reunite with Lynne Ramsey for the acclaimed psychological thriller <em>You Were Never Really Here<\/em>, starring Joaquin Phoenix.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Were Never Really Here \u2013 Official Trailer | Amazon Studios\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R8oYYg75Qvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>Greenwood received his first Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for <em>Phantom Thread<\/em>, not to mention an Ivor Novello award.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PHANTOM THREAD - Official Trailer [HD] - In Select Theaters Christmas\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNsiQMeSvMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>His film work has proffered some of the most intense and original scores for some while, with pretty much all of them dealing with humanity\u2019s dark side, its flaws and complex emotional depths.<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A BBC Proms premiere<\/h2> <p>Meanwhile, Jonny Greenwood was still composing concert works for orchestra. In 2019, his piece <em>Horror Vacui <\/em>for solo violin and 68 string instruments received its world premiere at the BBC Proms in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/what-are-late-night-proms\"><strong>Late Night Prom<\/strong><\/a> curated by Greenwood himself. The piece then went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/jonny-greenwood-cecilia-mcdowall-and-julian-joseph-among-this-years-winners-at-the-ivors-composer-awards\"><strong>win Jonny Greenwood an Ivor Composer Award<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An excerpt of 'Horror Vacui' by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood (Proms 2019)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ru1k_zNhJDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>2021 was a big year for Greenwood in terms of major film releases, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/tv-and-film-music\/spencer-our-guide-to-jonny-greenwoods-score-for-the-new-princess-diana-biopic\/\"><strong>scores for <em>Spencer<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <em>The Power of the Dog <\/em>and <em>Licorice Pizza<\/em> receiving outings in cinemas. The music for the psychological drama fictionalising the life of Diana Spencer<em> <\/em>saw Greenwood bringing together <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/baroque-music-guide\">Baroque<\/a><\/strong> techniques with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/jazz\/what-is-jazz\">jazz<\/a><\/strong> textures, with the ominous, dark overtones he has become known for.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/top-10-baroque-composers\">Top ten Baroque composers<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPENCER - Official Teaser Trailer - In Theaters November 5th\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lagauhb5GyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>Benedict Cumberbatch starred in the Western-cum-psychological drama <em>The Power of the Dog<\/em>, which Greenwood scored and which was commissioned by Netflix. The film received seven nominations at the 79th <strong>Golden Globe Awards<\/strong>, winning three, including Best Motion Picture \u2013 Drama. Greenwood&#8217;s score was also nominated, but lost out to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/hans-zimmer\">Hans Zimmer<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s epic choral and orchestral score for <em>Dune. <\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Power of the Dog | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRDPo0CHrko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-jonny-greenwood-launched-his-own-classical-record-label\">The record label<\/h2> <p>In 2019, Jonny Greenwood announced that he would be releasing some of his own music on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/composer-and-radiohead-guitarist-jonny-greenwood-launches-classical-music-label\/\"><strong>new classical record label, Octatonic<\/strong><\/a>. As part of the label&#8217;s launch, Greenwood&#8217;s <em>Three Miniatures from Water <\/em>was released alongside <em>Industry<\/em>, Michael Gordon&#8217;s epic, noisy work for amplified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/cello\"><strong>cello<\/strong><\/a> and electronics<em>. <\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Octatonic Volume 2\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4Nm1tZ2ZSLLYpZWZIjHARK?si=sab21lxySpqp38x2xOHmYQ&amp;utm_source=oembed\"\/> <\/div> <\/figure> <p>\u2018I\u2019ve decided to start documenting the musicians I encounter in the contemporary classical music world,\u2019 Greenwood said at the time of launch. \u2018I\u2019m only recording soloists, or small groups, and as it\u2019s my party, I\u2019m including in the release some of my own small ideas that have never been recorded.\u2019<\/p> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-are-radiohead-classically-trained\">Are Radiohead classically trained?<\/h2> <p>Jonny Greenwood is the only member of Radiohead to be classically trained. A term into his studies of psychology and music at Oxford Brookes University, he left to sign a six-album deal with EMI and Radiohead.<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-landscape_thumbnail\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3501\" height=\"2334\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/09\/Thom-Yorke-Jonny-Greenwood-Radiohead-f9f4e02.jpg\" alt=\"Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke perform with Radiohead in Macerata, Italy\" class=\"wp-image-161919\" title=\"Radiohead Perform In Macerata\"\/> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke perform with Radiohead in Macerata, Italy <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jonny-greenwood-filmography\"><strong>What films has<\/strong> <strong>Jonny Greenwood scored?<\/strong><\/h2> <p><em>Bodysong (2003)<\/em><br\/><em>There Will Be Blood<\/em> (2007)<br\/><em>Norwegian Wood<\/em> (2010)<br\/><em>We Need To Talk About Kevin<\/em> (2011)<br\/><em>The Master<\/em> (2012)<br\/><em>Inherent Vice<\/em> (2016)<br\/><em>You Were Never Really Here<\/em> (2017)<br\/><em>Phantom Thread<\/em> (2017)<br\/><em>Spencer<\/em> (2021)<br\/><em>The Power of the Dog<\/em> (2021)<br\/><em>Licorice Pizza<\/em> (2021)<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Saturday, 23 November 2024 at 10:02 AM Jonny Greenwood might be best known as the lead guitarist in British band Radiohead, but in recent years he&#8217;s made quite the splash in the film music world, composing some of the best movie scores \u2013 with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations to his name. 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