Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have gone Hollywood, scampering through the studios behind Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan’s latest venture Stone like two mystical elves bringing otherworldly magic and joy and some form of what Ed Norton calls a “divine-like tuning sound” to the film. In an interview with Variety, Norton discussed the film, which also stars Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich, and how Radiohead got involved. Apparently Norton is friends with the good people of Radiohead, and got Yorke and Greenwood to do some kind of listening party for the film’s director and composer. Says Norton,
I started talking to [Greenwood] about this idea: ‘What would you use to record this divine-like tuning sound?’ And he and Thom (Yorke) had been playing a lot of weird ambient stuff at the time and so, amazingly, they just unloaded tons and tons of files to us of these sound experiments that they had been doing.
It’s unclear yet as to whether any of that “weird ambient stuff” will make its way onto the film’s score, but if you’re viewing Stone and suddenly think, “Oh my! What IS that absolutely divine-like tuning sound?,” well, then I think you’ll know.
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